Minghui Hu
| Title | Associate Professor |
| Division | Humanities Division |
| Department | History Department |
| Affiliations | East Asian Studies |
| Phone | 831-459-5270 (office), 831-459-1924 (message) |
| FAX | 831-459-1925 |
| Web Site | Personal Website Cosmopolitanism in China, 1600-1950 (conference website) |
| Office | 536 Humanities 1 |
| Office Hours | Spring 2013: Tuesday 10-12 |
| Campus Mail Stop | Humanities Academic Services |
| 1156 High Street Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA |
Research Interests
Early Modern China (1600-1900)Biography, Education and Training
Ph.D., History, UCLAMS, Science and Technology Studies, Virginia Tech
BS, Civil Engineering, Tamkang University
Honors, Awards and Grants
Andrew Mellon postdoctoral fellowship, 2003-05Chiang Ching-kuo Cultural Exchange Foundation Junior Scholar Grant, 2006
Andrew Mellon Fellowship, Needham Research Institute, Cambridge University, 2007
UCSC Academic Senate Committee on Research Grant, 2007
UCSC Institute for Humanities Research fellowship, 2007
UCSC Academic Senate Committee on Research Grant, 2008
Ricci Institute Research Fellowship at the University of San Francisco, 2009
Academia Sinica Research Grant, 2010-13
Chiang Ching-kuo Conference grant, 2011-2012
Selected Publications
“Provenance in Contest: Searching for the Origins of Jesuit Astronomy in Late Imperial China,” The International History Review 24.1 (March 2002): 1-36.“Impossible Choices: A Review Essay of Huang Yi-long, Liangtoushe: mingmo qingchu de diyidai tianzhu jiaotu (Two-headed Snakes: The First Generation of Catholic Converts in Late Ming and Early Qing China). Xinzhu: Guoli qinghua daxue chubanshe, 2005” International Journal of Asian Studies 4.2 (2007): 259-273.
“Qingnian Dai Zhen: Shiba shiji zhongguo shiren shehui de ‘juwairen’ yu ruxue de xindongxiang” (Young Dai Zhen: An “Outsider” in Literati Society of Eight-eenth-century China and the New Orientation of Confucianism), Qingshi yanjiu (The Qing History Journal) 3 (2010): 34-50.
Courses Taught
HIstory 40A: Early Modern East AsiaHistory 140B: The Rise and Fall of the Qing Empire
History 194M: Literati, Samurai, and Yangban: Comparative History of Elite Formation in East Asia
History 230A: Readings in Late Imperial China
History 142: World HIstory of Science