Date: 15 April 2025 (Tuesday)
Time: 4-5:30pm
Venue: G7603, Green Zone, 7/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building (Lift no. 2), City University of Hong Kong
Speaker: Prof. Hans van de Ven (University of Cambridge)
Language: English
Limited seats available on a first-come first served basis. Please complete the online registration form on or before 7 April 2025. Successful registrants will receive a confirmation email not later than 11 April 2025.
Abstract
At the Bandung Conference of 1955, the delegates of 29 newly minted nation states from Asia and Africa had a past to commemorate, a present to respond to, and a future to shape. In this lecture, Hans van de Ven considers all three aspects of the context in which the Bandung Conference took place. He will discuss the Conference’s festive atmosphere, the commitment of the delegates to the sovereignty principles of the modern nation state, the Cold War background against which they responded, and the futures that were beginning to be discernible.
Biography
Prof. van de Ven is an authority on the history of 19th and 20th century China. He holds several positions at the University of Cambridge, where he is Deputy Vice Chancellor, Professor of Modern Chinese History, Fellow and Director in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at St Catharine's College and previously served as Chair of the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. He studied sinology at Leiden University. Then, after studying with Susan Naquin at the University of Pennsylvania for a period of time, he moved to Harvard University, where he studied modern Chinese history under Philip Kuhn and received his PhD. He specializes in the studies of Chinese Communist Party before 1949, the history of warfare in modern China from the Taiping Rebellion to the Civil War between the Communists and the Nationalists, and the history of Chinese globalization in the 1850-1950 period with a focus on Chinese Maritime Customs. He has published a number of monographs and numerous articles on these topics, of which some are published in Chinese in Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.
All are welcome!
Inquiry：
Department of Chinese and History
Tel.：3442 2054
Email：cah@cityu.edu.hk
