You are cordially invited to the 2nd ChinaComx Graduate Workshop “Practices and Politics of Lianhuanhua, Comics and Picture Books” taking place on Thursday, 18 June 2026, in HCTS Room 400.02.21.
Participants include incoming 2026 ChinaComx Visiting Scholars Amelia Kin Wai Chu and Chang Hasheminezhad-Li, special guests Di Yang (The University of Manchester) and Paul Zekun Chen (Heidelberg HCTS), as well as the whole ChinaComx Team.
We are happy to welcome you in the audience and during the Q&A sessions!
Full program:
“Practices and Politics of Lianhuanhua, Comics and Picture Books”
2nd ChinaComx Graduate Workshop
18 June 2026
9:00-9:15 Welcome: Lena Henningsen and Damian Mandzunowski
9:15-10:45 Panel 1
A case study of translated comics: Loss or gain in translation? (Amelia Kin Wai Chu, Ghent University)
Towards an Affective Reading of 1980s Lianhuanhua: Western Literary Adaptations and Affective Governance (Di Yang, Manchester)
11:00-12:30 Panel 2
Reading the Enemy: Picturebooks, Political Affect, and Diasporic Youth from Russia, Belarus, and China (Chang Hasheminezhad-Li, Università degli Studi di Padova)
Lianhuanhua in Practice: From Visual Form to Material Networks (Aijia Zhang, Heidelberg University)
14:00-16:15 Panel 3
The Reader Inside the Panels: Lianhuanhua and the Imagining of Readers in 1950s China (Jiu Song, Heidelberg University)
Tractors are way cooler than piggies…: young people’s career choices in lianhuanhua of the early PRC period (1956-1966) (Astrid Yuwen Xiao, Heidelberg University)
The Politics of Food Ethics: Visualizing Vegetarianisms in Socialist China’s Comic Culture (Paul Zekun Chen, Heidelberg HCTS)