Hans van de Ven
Johannes 'Hans' van de Ven (Born 1958, Velsen) is Professor of Modern Chinese History at the University of Cambridge, where he is also a Fellow of St Catharine's College. He studied at Leiden University, and went on to receive a PhD from Harvard. He has three sons, and is the History Link-Up Governor at Melbourn Village College in Cambridgeshire, UK.
Professor van de Ven is Chairman of the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies [1]. He was a visiting scholar at the Hopkins-Nanjing, China from 2005-2006 and is currently working on a project about the Chinese Maritime Customs Service. For his research, he has travelled to Grand Canal cities such as Bungbu[citation needed] and Yangzhou, as well as treaty ports such as Xiamen.
In Early 2008, van de Ven adopted a position with ACE Study Tours whereby he will serve as the Guest Lecturer for the firm's Chinese Civilization tours.
van de Ven is the son-in-law of the late Malcolm Kerr, political scientist and President of the American University of Beirut, and van de Ven's wife, Susan, authored a book on the subject[2]
Van de Ven is also the brother-in-law of ex Arizona Wildcats and Chicago Bulls legend Steve Kerr.
Bibliography
- War and Nationalism in China (London: Routledge, 2003)
- From Friend to Comrade: The Founding of the Chinese Communist Party, 1920-1927 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991)