Hans van de Ven

Johannes 'Hans' van de Ven (born 1958, Velsen) is an authority on the history of 19th and 20th century China.cite web | title= Oriental Studies | url= http://www.caths.cam.ac.uk/home/?m=page&id=185 | date= 2008-06-12 | publisher= St Catharine's College, Cambridge | quote= 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. | accessdate= 2008-08-08] He holds several positions at the University of Cambridge, where he is Professor of Modern Chinese History,cite web | title= Prof Hans van de Ven | url= http://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/general_info/biographies/chinese/van%20de%20Ven.htm | last= Van de Ven | first= Hans | publisher= University of Cambridge | work= Chinese Studies Teaching Staff | accessdate= 2008-08-08] Chairman of the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, [cite web | title= Faculty Board and its Committees | url= http://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/general_info/board_committees.htm | publisher= University of Cambridge | work= Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies | accessdate= 2008-08-08] Management Committee member of the East Asia Institute, [cite web | title= Management Committee | url= http://www.eai.cam.ac.uk/about_management_committee.html | publisher= East Asia Institute (Cambridge University) | accessdate= 2008-08-09] and Director in Oriental Studies at St Catharine's College. He studied sinology at Leiden University, and modern Chinese history at Harvard, where he received a PhD. He is also the History Link-Up Governor at Melbourn Village College in Cambridgeshire.

Dr 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. [cite web | title= Professor Hans van de Ven academic lectures | url= http://www.nimba.cn/wenzhanglist.asp?id=126 | date= 2005-11-15 | work= Nanjing University EMBA program with Cornell University | publisher= Nanjing University | language= Chinese with some English | accessdate= 2008-08-08] As of 2008, he is working on a book about the Chinese Maritime Customs Service.

In early 2008, van de Ven adopted a position with ACE Study Tours (Association for Cultural Exchange), to serve as guest lecturer for the firm's Chinese Civilization tours. [cite web | title= Tours directed by Hans van de Ven, PhD | url= http://www.acestudytours.co.uk/l/tours.director/Hans%20van%20de%20Ven%2c%20PhD | publisher= The Association for Cultural Exchange | accessdate= 2008-08-08]

Van de Ven is married and has three sons. He is the son-in-law of the late Malcolm Kerr, political scientist and President of the American University of Beirut. His wife, Susan, authored a book about her family's quest for truth and justice, following Kerr's assassination in January 1984. [cite news | title= Anatomy of a murder | url= http://www.thenational.ae/article/20080724/REVIEW/362596233/1008 | last= Roig | first= Denise | date= 2008-07-24 | publisher= The National | location= Abu Dhabi | accessdate= 2008-08-08] [cite book | title= One Family’s Response to Terrorism: A Daughter’s Memoir | url= http://www.syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/spring-2008/one-familys-response-terrorism.html | last= Van de Ven | first= Susan Kerr | year= 2008 | publisher= Syracuse University Press | others= foreword by Saad Eddin Ibrahim | location= Syracuse | isbn= 978-0-8156-0873-8 | accessdate= 2008-08-08] Van de Ven is also the brother-in-law of former Arizona Wildcats and Chicago Bulls legend Steve Kerr.

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* [http://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/general_info/biographies/chinese/van%20de%20Ven.htm Biography] at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge, by Hans van de Ven