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
- Name:
- Dr Lars Laamann
- Email address:
- ll10@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- 020 7898 4634
- Fax:
- 020 7898 4699
- Address:
- SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office No:
- 323
- Office Hours:
- Mondays - Fridays 10-11am (and by appointment)
Teaching
Courses Taught
- H298 Manchu Society and Culture: An Alternative History of China (1600-1997)
- H299 Traders, Believers, Rebels: A Social History of Islam in China (650-2008)
- H382 Opium & Empires: China's Narcotic Trade and Culture in Global Context (I)
- H399 Christianity in China (1600-1949): Historical Impact and Interpretations (I)
- H482 Opium & Empires: China's Narcotic Trade and Culture in Global Context (II)
- H499 Christianity in China (1600-1949): Historical Impact and Interpretations (II)
- Nationhood and Competing Identities in Modern China
PhD Students supervised
- Cyrus K.Y. Yee , China's New Administration in the Inner Asian Frontiers in the Late Qing Period, 1901-1911
- Niki Alsford, The Banka Petition: Anglo-Japanese relations and the cession of Formosa in 1895
- Sarah S.Y. Lee, "A Historical Study of Female Filipino Domestic Workers in Hong Kong: 1970-2000".
Research
- Popular religion in late imperial China;
- Medicine, drugs and healing;
- Manchu culture in the Qing empire
Expertise
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Available for
- TV
- Radio
- Press
- Briefings
- Special Study Programmes
- 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. Abingdon/Oxon; New York: Routledge. (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia; 41)
Dikotter, Frank and Laamann, Lars Peter and Zhou, Xun (2004) Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China. London: Hurst.
Book Chapters
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. Woodbridge: Ecclesiastical History Society / Boydell, pp. 279-302. (Studies in Church History)
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.
