Hans van de Ven

Johan "Hans" van de Ven (born January 10, 1958 ) is a British historian and expert on the history of China in the 19th and 20th centuries. He is Professor of Chinese History at the University of Cambridge and since 1988 Fellow and Director of Studies in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at St Catharine's College . He first studied Sinology at the University of Leiden and then did his doctorate at Harvard on the history of the Chinese Communist Party . His doctoral supervisor was Philip Kuhn . After a stay at the University of California, Berkeley , he took up his position in Cambridge in 1988.

Works

As an author

• China at War: Triumph and Tragedy in the Emergence of the New China 1937–1952 . London: Profile Books. 2017. ISBN 978-1-78125-194-2 . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2018. ISBN 978-0-674-98350-2
• Breaking with the Past: The Maritime Customs Service and the Global Origins of Modernity in China . New York: Columbia University Press . 2014. ISBN 978-0-231-13738-6 .
• War and Nationalism in China: 1925–1945 . Routledge , London 2003, ISBN 978-0-415-14571-8
• From Friend to Comrade: The Founding of the Chinese Communist Party, 1920-1927 . University of California Press , Berkeley 1991, ISBN 978-0-520-07271-8

As editor

• Negotiating China's Destiny in World War II . Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2014. ISBN 978-0-8047-8966-0 .
• The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945 . Stanford University Press , Stanford 2012, ISBN 978-0-8047-6206-9

Essays

• Robert Hart and the Chinese Maritime Customs Service . Modern Asian Studies , Vol. 40, No. 3 (July 2006). Introduction (pp. 545–547) and Robert Hart and Gustav Detring during the Boxer Rebellion (pp. 631–663)
• Lifting the Veil of Secrecy: Secret Services in China during World War II , Intelligence and National Security , Vol. 16, No. 4 (Winter 2001), 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. 205-237
• War in the Making of Modern China Modern Asian Studies , Vol. 30, No. 4. Introduction (pp. 737–756) and Public Finance and the Rise of Warlordism (pp. 829–868)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Professor Hans van de Ven - St Catharine's College, Cambridge
2. ^ Prof. Hans van de Ven, FBA - Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies