Dr Lars Laamann
BA(FREIBURG) BA PHD(LONDON)
Overview
Department of History
(Lecturer in the History of China)
Centre of Chinese Studies
(Member, Centre of Chinese Studies)
Popular religions in early modern China (16th-20th cc); Christianity in china (18th-20th cc); Opium and other narcotics (18th-20th cc); Manchu history (16th-20th cc)
Contact Details
- Name:
- Dr Lars Laamann
- Email address:
- ll10@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- 020 7898 4634
Teaching
Courses Taught
- H398 Manchu Society and Culture: An Alternative History of China (1600-1997)
- H399 Traders, Believers, Rebels: A Social History of Islam in China (650-2008)
- H482 Opium And Empires, 1773 To 1919: China, India And Britain (i)
- H499 Christianity in China (1600-1949): Historical Impact and Interpretations (I)
- H583 Opium And Empires, 1773 To 1919: China, India And Britain (ii)
- H599 Christianity in China (1600-1949): Historical Impact and Interpretations (II)
- Knowledge and Power in Late Imperial and Modern China
Research
- Popular religion in late imperial China;
- Medicine, drugs and healing;
- Manchu culture in the Qing empire
Expertise
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Available for
- Radio
- Press
- Briefings
- Special Study Programmes
- TV
- Short Term Consultancy
- Long Term Consultancy
Regional Expertise
- East Asia
Country Expertise
- China
Languages
- French
- German
- Spanish
- Swedish
Publications
Authored Books
Laamann, Lars Peter (2006) Christian heretics in late imperial China : Christian inculturation and state control, 1720-1850. Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia; 41. Abingdon/Oxon; New York: Routledge.
Dikotter, Frank and Laamann, Lars Peter and Zhou, Xun (2004) Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China. London: Hurst.
Chapters in Books
Laamann, Lars (2004) 'Memories of Faith: The Christian Sutras of Eighteenth-Century China.' In: Swanson, RN, (ed.), The Church and the Book (Studies in Church History, vol. 38). Woodbridge: Ecclesiastical History Society / Boydell, 279-302..
Laamann, Lars Peter (2004) 'Memories of Faith: The 'Christian sutras' of late imperial China.' In: Swanson, R.N., (ed.), The Church and the Book. Studies in Church History, 38. Woodbridge: Ecclesiastical History Society / Boydell, pp. 279-302.
Articles
Laamann, Lars (2002) 'Anti-Christian Agitation as an Example of Late Imperial Anticlericalism.' Extrême-Orient Extrême-Occident, 24 (‘L’Anticlericalisme en Chine’) . pp. 47-63.
Dikotter , Frank and Laamann , Lars and Zhou, Xun (2002) 'Narcotic Culture: A Social History of Drug consumption in China.' British Journal of Criminology, 42 (2). pp. 317-336.
Laamann , Lars (2002) 'Pain And Pleasure: Opium as Medicine in Late Imperial China.' Twentieth-Century China, 28 (1). pp. 1-20.
Laamann , Lars (1997) 'Von Bodissattva Guanyin zur Jungfrau Maria - einige Aspekte zur Inkulturation des Christentums im China des achtzehnten und frühen neunzehnten Jahrhunderts.' Spirita (online journal) .
Laamann, Lars (1996) 'The Current State of the Beitang Collections.' Bulletin of the European Association of Sinological Librarians, 6 .
Theses
Laamann, Lars Peter (2000) The Inculturation of Christianity in Late Imperial China, 1724-1840. PhD thesis, SOAS, University of London.
