Rate My Professor Minghui Hu

Hu's academic interests include Early Modern China from 1600 to 1900, the history of science and technology, the humanities in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, and the rise of China in world politics. He authored the monograph China’s Transition to Modernity: The New Classical Vision of Dai Zhen (University of Washington Press, 2015), with a Chinese translation forthcoming in 2023. Hu co-edited Cosmopolitanism in China, 1600-1950 (Cambria Press, 2016) with Johan Elverskog. His scholarly articles have been published in The International History Review, Frontier of History in China, Twentieth-First Century, Xue Heng, and Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. He has completed a book manuscript entitled Waiting for the Barbarians: A History of Geopolitics in Early Modern China (Cambria Press, 2024). Hu's future research emphasizes data mining and the field of digital humanities, in addition to ongoing work on the history of early modern China. He serves as Principal Investigator for the Humanities Institute’s Humanities in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Research Cluster at UC Santa Cruz.