Hans van de Ven
Johan 'Hans' van de Ven(born 10 January 1958 inVelsen,Netherlands) is an authority on the history of 19th and 20th centuryChina.[1]He holds several positions at theUniversity of Cambridge,where he is Professor of Modern Chinese History,[2]Director in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies atSt Catharine's Collegeand previously served as Chair of the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.[3][4]He studiedsinologyatLeiden University.Then, after studying with Susan Naquin at theUniversity of Pennsylvaniafor a period of time, he moved toHarvard University,where he studied modern Chinese history underPhilip Kuhnand received hisPhD.[5][2]
Van de Ven has particularly focused on the history of theChinese Communist Party,Chinese warfare, theChinese Maritime Customs Serviceand the history of globalization in modern China.[6]
Van de Ven is a guest professor at the History Department ofNanjing Universityand was an International Fellow at theHopkins-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 atPeking 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 bookThe 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 lateMalcolm H. Kerr,political scientist and President of theAmerican 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 ofSteve Kerr,coach of theGolden State Warriors,formerArizona WildcatsandChicago Bullsplayer.[13]
Bibliography
[edit]As Author:
- China at War: Triumph and Tragedy in the Emergence of the New China 1937–1952.London: Profile Books. 2017.ISBN978-1781251942Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2018.ISBN9780674983502.2017 pbk edition
- Breaking with the Past: The Maritime Customs Service and the Global Origins of Modernity in China.New York: Columbia University Press. 2014.ISBN978-0231137386.
- War and Nationalism in China: 1925–1945.London:Routledge.2003.ISBN978-0-415-14571-8.
- From Friend to Comrade: The Founding of the Chinese Communist Party, 1920–1927.Berkeley:University of California Press.1991.ISBN978-0-520-07271-8.
As Editor:
- The Chinese Communist Party: A Century in Ten Lives.Cambridge:Cambridge University Press.2021.ISBN9781108842778.
- Negotiating China's Destiny in World War II.Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2014.ISBN978-0804789660.
- The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945.Stanford:Stanford University Press.2012.ISBN978-0-8047-6206-9.
- New Perspectives on the Chinese Revolution.M. E. Sharpe.1995.ISBN9781563244285.
Editor of Journal Special Issues:
- "Robert Hart and the Chinese Maritime Customs Service", special issue ofModern 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)
References
[edit]- ^"Oriental Studies".St Catharine's College, Cambridge.12 June 2008.Retrieved8 August2008.
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.
- ^abVan de Ven, Hans."Prof Hans van de Ven".Chinese Studies Teaching Staff.University of Cambridge.Retrieved26 June2016.
- ^contra (19 January 2015)."Professor Hans van de Ven".St Catharine's College, Cambridge.Retrieved15 September2019.
- ^"China in World War II".Cambridge China Centre.Retrieved15 September2019.
- ^Prof Alan Macfarlane - Ayabaya (29 June 2019),Interview of Hans van de Ven - May 2019,archivedfrom the original on 12 December 2021,retrieved28 July2019
- ^Coetzee, Caroline (6 December 2017)."Professor Hans van de Ven FBA".www.ames.cam.ac.uk.Retrieved15 September2019.
- ^"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) - ^"Professor Hans van de Ven Visits the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences at Peking University - bắc kinh đại học nhân văn xã hội khoa học nghiên cứu viện".www.ihss.pku.edu.cn.Retrieved15 September2019.
- ^"Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies | General Information | Teaching Staff | Chinese Studies Teaching Staff".Archived fromthe originalon 16 June 2009.Retrieved16 June2009.
- ^"Home".smh-hq.org.
- ^Roig, Denise (24 July 2008)."Anatomy of a murder".Abu Dhabi:The National.Retrieved8 August2008.
- ^Van de Ven, Susan Kerr (2008).One Family's Response to Terrorism: A Daughter's Memoir.foreword bySaad Eddin Ibrahim.Syracuse:Syracuse University Press.ISBN978-0-8156-0873-8.Retrieved8 August2008.
- ^Galloway, Paul (24 October 1993)."A Separate Peace".Chicago Tribune.Retrieved27 June2016.
External links
[edit]- Biographyat the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies,University of Cambridge,by Hans van de Ven
- Interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 17 May 2019 (video)
