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]
Breaking with the Past: The Maritime Customs Service and the Global Origins of Modernity in China. New York: Columbia University Press. 2014. ISBN978-0231137386.
"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)
References
^"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.
^"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)