Curriculum Vitae of Barend ter Haar

Curriculum Vitae of Barend J. ter Haar (selective)

Summer 2018

Study of sinology from September 1976 - August 1984, at Leiden University (the Netherlands)
Studies abroad: Mainland China (University of Liaoning in Shenyang, from August 1979 - July 1980), Japan (University for Foreign Languages in Osaka, from April - August 1982, University of Kyûshû from August 1982 - April 1984)
Dissertation: January 10, 1990 (Leiden University, thesis advisors prof. S. Naquin of Princeton University [then at the University of Pennsylvania] and prof. E. Zürcher of Leiden University, judicium cum laude)

presently

Professor of Chinese at the University of Hamburg (from October 2018 onwards)
Visiting professor at Sichuan University (Chengdu) and Shanxi (Taiyuan)
coeditor Sinica Leidensia
Member of the editorial board: Oriens Extremus

my previous career

a wide range of teaching, examination and other ad hoc committees over the years at the universities of Leiden, Heidelberg, Oxford and Hamburg.
Run Run Shaw Professor of Chinese at the University of Oxford (January 2013-October 2018)
professorial fellow of University College (January 2013-October 2018)
Chair of Chinese History at Leiden University (Sinological Institute) (August 2000 - January 2013)
Chair of the Department for Chinese Studies (August 15 2002- September 1 2004) and (June 17 2009- september 2011)
Director of the CNWS, Research School for Asian, African, and Amerindian Studies (September 2004 - August 2007)
Member of the Board of the International Institute for Asian Studies (January 2001 - December 2008)
Co-editor of the sinological journal T'oung Pao (with professor Pierre-Etienne Will of the Collége de France, Paris) (october 2000 - 2009)
Webmaster of www.tcc.leidenuniv.nl (January 2001 - September 2009)
responsible professor for the libraries of the Sinological Institute (January 2001 - August 2009)
Member of the editorial board: Hanxue yanjiu (discontinued)
C3 Professor of the Social and Economic History of China at the University of Heidelberg (October 1994 - September 2000)
Research Fellow of the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden (March 1994 - December 1995)
Director of the Researchprogram on "Endangered Minorities in Southeast Asia" of the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden (March 1994 - November 1995)
Recipient of a Chiang Ching-kuo research scholarship (July - September 1994, discontinued because of appointment in Heidelberg)
Research Fellow of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences, Leiden University (February 1991 - January 1994)
University Lecturer of Classical Chinese and Chinese History at Leiden University (August 1986 - July 1992)
Students Counsellor in the Department of Chinese Languages and Cultures at Leiden University (August 1986 - July 1988)
University Lecturer of Modern Chinese at Leiden University (September 1984 - July 1986)

last update 2-9-2018