The Manchus in the Qing Empire

Dear friends!

Come and join us at Selwyn College History Society in the Chadwick Room on Tuesday 4th February at 5.30pm to hear Dr Lars Laamann speak about the role of the Manchus in the Qing Empire, and the nature of the Qing Empire. Under the monicker New Qing History, this has become a political "hot potato" in Sino-US relations.

The event is open to all students of the university and all others who would be interested to hear about a central aspect of the history of China. The event is completely free - reservation is simply for measuring capacity - and will consist of a talk lasting around an hour and around 15 minutes afterwards reserved for questions.

Lars Peter Laamann ([email protected]) is Senior Lecturer (=Associate Professor) in the History of China at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Apart from a growing fascination with the language, culture and history of the Manchus, his research interests focus on the interface between medicine and popular religion, with a particular focus on Christianity, from the 16th to the 19th centuries. Furthermore, the dichotomies between urban and rural settings, as well as between dominant ethnicities and peripheral identities, play a significant role. Dr Laamann’s publications reflect this emphasis, e.g. Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China (2004, with Frank Dikötter and Zhou Xun), Christian Heretics in Late Imperial China (2006), Critical Readings on the Manchus in Modern China (2013); Lars Peter Laamann & Joseph Tse-Hei LEE (eds), The Church as Safe Haven: Christian Governance in China, Leiden: Brill, 2018.

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