Ross Moncrieff

I work on the histories of Europe and China in the early modern period (c. 1500 to 1800). My DPhil research focuses on the British reception of Chinese history in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. I am more broadly interested in intellectual, cultural, and political contact between Europe and China in this period, particularly the famous British embassy to China of Lord Macartney in 1793. I have published peer-review articles on a range of related topics, from seventeenth-century English sinology to early nineteenth-century Sino-British diplomacy. Aside from the direct encounter of China and the West, I am also interested in the comparative history of early modern Chinese and European intellectual life. I did my BA in Ancient and Modern History at Lincoln College, Oxford, followed by an MPhil in Renaissance Literature at Christ’s College, Cambridge, and an EMA (English Taught Master’s) in Chinese History and Culture at Fudan University, Shanghai, the latter of which was funded by the Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC). I am a co-founder of the Oxford seminars in Global Intellectual History and the Pre-Modern History of East Asia. I also run an online network for scholars interested in the intellectual history of China’s Qing dynasty (1636-1911).