Hans van de Ven

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Johan 'Hans' van de Ven (born 10 January 1958 in Velsen, Netherlands) is an authority on the history of 19th and 20th century China. [1] He holds several positions at the University of Cambridge, where he is Professor of Modern Chinese History, [2] Director in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at St Catharine's College and previously served as Chair of the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. [3] [4] He studied sinology at Leiden University. Then, after studying with Susan Naquin at the University of Pennsylvania for a period of time, he moved to Harvard University, where he studied modern Chinese history under Philip Kuhn and received his PhD. [5] [2]

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Van de Ven has particularly focused on the history of the Chinese Communist Party, Chinese warfare, the Chinese Maritime Customs Service and the history of globalization in modern China. [6]

Van de Ven is a guest professor at the History Department of Nanjing University and was an International Fellow at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, China, in 2005–06. [7] In 2019, he was appointed as an honorary visiting professor at the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences at Peking University. [8]

He was awarded the Philip Lilienthal Prize of the University of California Press for best first book in Asian Studies for his book on the founding of the Chinese Communist Party in 1991 [9] and the Society for Military History 2012 Book Prize for non-US work for the book The Battle for China, which he edited along with Mark Peattie and Edward Drea. [10]

Van de Ven is married to Susan Kerr. They have three sons - Johan, Derek and Willem. His wife's father was the late Malcolm H. Kerr, political scientist and President of the American University of Beirut, who was assassinated in January 1984. She wrote a book about her family's quest for truth and justice. [11] [12] Van de Ven is the brother-in-law of Steve Kerr, coach of the Golden State Warriors, former Arizona Wildcats and Chicago Bulls player. [13]

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Editor of Journal Special Issues

"Robert Hart and the Chinese Maritime Customs Service", special issue of Modern Asian Studies, vol. 40:3 (July 2006). Introduction (pp. 545–7) and ‘Robert Hart and Gustav Detring during the Boxer Rebellion’ (pp. 631–663) 2001

"Lifting the Veil of Secrecy: Secret Services in China during World War II", Intelligence and National Security, 16:4 (Winter 2001), author of 'Introduction' (pp. 1–10) and 'The Kuomintang's Secret Service in Action in South China: Operational and Political Aspects of the Arrest of Liao Chengzhi (1942)', pp. 205–37 1996

"War in the Making of Modern China" Modern Asian Studies, vol.30:4. Author of 'Introduction' (pp. 737–56) and 'Public Finance and the Rise of Warlordism' (pp. 829–68)

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References

  1. ↑ "Oriental Studies". St Catharine's College, Cambridge. 12 June 2008. Retrieved 8 August 2008. Dr Hans van de Ven is the college's Director in Oriental Studies. He is an expert on the history of nineteenth and twentieth century China.
  2. 1 2 Van de Ven, Hans. "Prof Hans van de Ven". Chinese Studies Teaching Staff. University of Cambridge . Retrieved 26 June 2016.
  3. ↑ contra (19 January 2015). "Professor Hans van de Ven". St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
  4. ↑ "China in World War II". Cambridge China Centre. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
  5. ↑ Prof Alan Macfarlane - Ayabaya (29 June 2019), Interview of Hans van de Ven - May 2019, archived from the original on 12 December 2021, retrieved 28 July 2019
  6. ↑ Coetzee, Caroline (6 December 2017). "Professor Hans van de Ven FBA". www.ames.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
  7. ↑ "Professor Hans van de Ven academic lectures". Nanjing University EMBA program with Cornell University (in Chinese and English). Nanjing University. 15 November 2005.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  8. ↑ "Professor Hans van de Ven Visits the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences at Peking University - 北京大学人文社会科学研究院". www.ihss.pku.edu.cn. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
  9. ↑ "Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies | General Information | Teaching Staff | Chinese Studies Teaching Staff". Archived from the original on 16 June 2009. Retrieved 16 June 2009.
  10. ↑ "Home". smh-hq.org.
  11. ↑ Roig, Denise (24 July 2008). "Anatomy of a murder". Abu Dhabi: The National. Retrieved 8 August 2008.
  12. ↑ Van de Ven, Susan Kerr (2008). One Family's Response to Terrorism: A Daughter's Memoir. foreword by Saad Eddin Ibrahim. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press. ISBN   978-0-8156-0873-8 . Retrieved 8 August 2008.
  13. ↑ Galloway, Paul (24 October 1993). "A Separate Peace". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 27 June 2016.
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