I am Subject Head of History and Senior Lecturer in the History of China at Soas. My expertise include popular religions (incl. Christianity) during the Qing period and in Republican China, the history of medicine and drugs in modern China and the language, culture and history of the Manchus in Qing China. Dr Laamann is also the editor of the Central Asiatic Journal. His publications include Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China (co-authored with Frank Dikotter and Xun Zhou, 2004) and Christian Heretics in Late Imperial China (2006).

Research interests in early modern China's history of

* popular religion
* narcotic culture
* social housing
* the Manchus

Experience

  • –present
    Lecturer on the History of China, SOAS, University of London

Contact Lars for

  • General
  • Media request
  • Speaking request
  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision
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