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Call for Papers for the edited volume CHINESE STAR WARS: VERNACULAR READINGS OF A GLOBAL MULTIMEDIA PHENOMENON

Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

With the semicentennial of the first Star Wars approaching in 2027, it is evident that few other Hollywood blockbusters enjoy such broad cultural appeal and wide academic interest as Star Wars. In all of this and much more scholarly literature, however, one theme and region is conspicuously absent: China.

The edited volume Chinese Star Wars: Vernacular Readings of a Global Multimedia Phenomenon sets out to shed more light on exactly these aspects. We invite contributions that explore the interplay between the larger Star Wars universe(s) and the Chinese (re)production, consumption, and reception of it over the decades following 1977. We particularly welcome case studies and detailed explorations of overlooked artifacts, whether material or symbolic, as well as studies based on oral history. Transcultural approaches that critically engage with Chinese Star Wars phenomena are also highly encouraged.

Lena Henningsen to Present at the 2026 Colloquium 'Translating Comics' in Paris on 11 April

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Our PI, Lena Henningsen, will take part in the colloquium “Translating Comics: Between Bubbles, Cultures, and Constraints in East Asia” held at Paris Nanterre University and the National Institute of Art History (INHA), Paris, from 10 to 11 April 2026.

The conference explores key challenges in the translation of comics at the intersection of literature, visual semiotics, and culture. It addresses issues such as the spatial constraints of text in graphic narratives, the translation of humor and cultural references, and the role of publishing norms and censorship across different cultural contexts. Particular attention is given to translations involving Asian languages, including Chinese (manhua), Japanese (manga), and Korean (manhwa), as well as to adaptation as a form of translation.

Damian Mandzunowski to take part in the AAS Annual Conference 2026 in Vancouver

Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

ChinaComx Postdoctoral researcher, Damian Mandzunowski, will present a paper at the upcoming AAS Annual Conference 2026 in Vancouver, Canada, on Saturday, 14 March 2026, at 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT in the VCC, Room 21.

Titled “A Gallery of Villains: Standardizing Images of Enmity in Chinese Socialist Comics (Lianhuanhua),” his paper traces the evolution and political uses of villains in new socialist comics from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Lena Henningsen Gave a Talk on Lianhuanhua at the University of Mainz on 4 February

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

ChinaComx PI Lena Henningsen presented the work of the project and her own research at the University of Mainz/Germersheim last week. In her presentation for colleagues and students from the Department of Translation at Uni Mainz, Lena gave an overview of the ChinaComx project and why lianhuanhua were so popular in China. Her talk is titled “Unterhaltung, Bildung und Propaganda im Comic? Geschichte und Entwicklung der chinesischen Lianhuanhua 连环画”.

Aijia Zhang to Present on Lianhuanhua and Digital Humanities at The Chinese University of Hong Kong on 23 January

Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

ChinaComx PhD candidate Aijia Zhang is to take part in the Hong Kong Association for Digital Humanities 2026 Conference this January. Hosted by The Chinese University of Hong Kong on 23-25 January 2026, the event explores digital humanities in the era of AI.

In her panel “Image Synthesis, Immersion & Multimodality” (16:30–18:30) on 23 January, Aijia will share her current research titled “Lianhuanhua in the Age of AI: Multimodality, Distant Perceiving, and the Ethics”. She examines the potential lianhuanhua offered to the digital humanities with its multimodal nature, and discusses her practices of using AI in digital humanities research. Reflecting on her previous projects on the texts and images of over 300 lianhuanhua, her talk explores how AI increases the efficiency in data normalization and preparation while raising potential problems. Using concrete examples, she shares her attempts at applying AI in research while keeping track of the obscurity in models and algorithms.

Astrid Y. Xiao to Present on Food and Lianhuanhua on 28 November at Ca’ Foscari University, Venice

Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

ChinaComx PhD candidate Astrid Y. Xiao will head to Venice this November to share her research at the international conference Eating Indoors and Outdoors in Children’s Literature. Hosted by Ca’ Foscari University on 27–28 November 2025, the event explores how food and eating spaces appear in children’s stories across cultures.

Astrid will speak in the panel “Knowing Your Onions: Foraging Spaces” (16:15–17:45) on 28 November, chaired by Carolina C. Granini. Her presentation, titled “Edible Lessons: Moral Topographies of Food in Chinese Children’s Comics”, examines how food and eating spaces were depicted in lianhuanhua during Mao-era China. Through close readings of images and narratives of intimate spots in the vineyard and outdoor spaces for communal picnics, her talk explores how everyday food practices became tools for political pedagogy. She argues that these small, ordinary moments around meals were mobilized to cultivate socialist virtues such as collectivism and disciplined desire. In tracing these “edible moral landscapes,” the presentation shows how children’s visual culture shaped not only notions of nourishment but also broader ideas of morality and ideological belonging.

Lena Henningsen and Damian Mandzunowski to Present at the 2025 DVCS Conference in Hamburg on 21 November

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

ChinaComx PI Lena Henningsen and postdoc researcher Damian Mandzunowski will present their latest work at the XXXVI Annual Conference of the German Association for Chinese Studies (Die Deutsche Vereinigung für Chinastudien e. V., DVCS), titled “Self-Images – Images of the Other (Selbstbilder – Fremdbilder)”, held from 21–23 November 2025 at the Asia Africa Institute of the University of Hamburg.

The talks are about villains and heroes and their depictions in lianhuanhua, and they both take place on Friday, 21 November, in Panel 3: Literatur und Medien I (15:30–17:00), chaired by Emily Graf. At 16:00, Lena Henningsen will present her paper “Author, Media Star, Icon, or Revolutionary: Images of Lu Xun in Lianhuanhua (Autor, Medienstar, Ikone oder Revolutionär: Fremdbilder von Lu Xun in Lianhuanhua)”. She is followed at 16:30 by Damian Mandzunowski, whose talk “What Do Our Enemies Look Like? The Construction of Images of Others in Mao-Era Socialist Comics (lianhuanhua) (Wie sehen unsere Feinde aus? Die Konstruktion von Fremdbildern in sozialistischen Comics (lianhuanhua) der Mao‐Ära)”.

John A. Crespi (Colgate) to Deliver Guest Lecture in Heidelberg on 17 November

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The ChinaComx project is thrilled to welcome John A. Crespi, Professor of Chinese and Asian Studies at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, and author of Manhua Modernity: Chinese Culture and the Pictorial Turn (University of California Press, 2020)—available open access here!—for a guest lecture titled “Chinese Comics in Context: Scanlating Manhua from the Jazz Age to the Mao Era.

The talk will take place on 17 November in CATS 010.00.01 from 4 p.m.

Lena Henningsen and Jiu Song to Present on Lianhuanhua at Shanghai Jiao Tong University on 10 and 14 October

Sun, 05 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The 2025 International Week and International Cultural Festival of the School of Humanities, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) will be held from 10-16 October 2025. ChinaComx PI Lena Henningsen and Phd Candidate Jiu Song are invited to present their recent research on lianhuanhua at this event.

Jiu Song will present from 17:20 to 17:55 on 10 October, the first day of CATS-SJTU International Graduate Student Conference 2025. She is the last presenter of the Second Group with the topic Worldmaking through Revolutions and the International. Building on her ongoing PhD project, her presentation is titled Visual Narratives and Revolutionary Memory: Reader Reception and Worldmaking in Chinese Lianhuanhua (1950s-1980s). The talk examines how revolutionary-themed lianhuanhua (palm-sized picture-story books) translated recent history into compelling visual narratives and helped organize cultural memory. Drawing on archival materials, reader feedback, and a close look at the planned—but ultimately unpublished—adaptation of Seaman Zhu Baoting, Song shows how editorial guidance shaped the visual grammar of heroism, struggle, and moral resolution. A brief comparative glimpse at the iconic series Railroad Guerrillas highlights fieldwork-driven craft, iterative refinement, and wide readership. Throughout, the talk leverages worldmaking and cultural-memory frameworks to argue that lianhuanhua functioned as accessible, resonant media that connected historical experience with everyday ethical practice—past and present.

Jiu Song to Present at the 18th Next-Generation Global Workshop at Kyoto University

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

On September 26-28, 2025, ChinaComx Phd Candidate Jiu Song will attend the 18th Next-Generation Global Workshop at Kyoto University, Japan. The workshop is organized by the Kyoto University Asian Studies Unit (KUASU) under the theme “Visual Media in a Post-Growth Era.”

While her earlier presentations on younger generations focused mainly on questions of memory and intergenerational transmission, this time her research places greater emphasis on the ways in which visual media themselves shape and articulate identity. By addressing how visual forms and digital platforms mediate the reappropriation of lianhuanhua, her talk also speaks to broader issues of cultural expression and social transformation in the post-growth era.

Jiu Song to Deliver a Speech at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou

Sat, 13 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

On September 15, 2025, at 18:00, ChinaComx Phd Candidate Jiu Song will deliver a speech titled “Beyond Frames of Painting: Research Pathways into Lianhuanhua and Visual Narratives from a Global Perspective” (超越画格——全球视野下连环画与视觉叙事的研究路径) at the China Academy of Art, Nanshan Campus, South Garden Conference Room. The lecture will be hosted by Prof. Sheng Tianye, Dean of the School of Chinese Painting, China Academy of Art.

For the WeChat post in Chinese, see here, and the speech abstracts (in English and Chinese) are as follows:

ChinaComx at the British Association for Chinese Studies Annual Conference 2025 in Leicester, UK

Sun, 31 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A strong representation of our project is headed this week to Leicester, UK, for the 2025 Annual Conference of the British Association for Chinese Studies (BACS) – to be held on 3-5 September at the University of Leicester.

ChinaComx Postdoc Damian Mandzunowski and Nick Stember jointly co-organize and present papers at a two-parted panel tackling all things lianhuanhua: Panel 1, “The Politics of an Aesthetics of Medium: Intersections of History and Society in Chinese Comics”, investigates how history and politics crossed roads with lianhuanhua; Panel 2, “The Aesthetics of a Political Medium: Intersections of Visual Culture and Literature in Chinese Comics”, asks how this politicized medium retained its characteristics and uses.

PUBLICATION ALERT: Mandzunowski reviews Du, Animated Encounters (University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2019)

Wed, 20 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A review article by ChinaComx Postdoc Damian Mandzunowski of Daisy Yan Du’s Animated Encounters: Transnational Movements of Chinese Animation, 1940s-1970s (University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2019) has been published on the Animation Studies 2.0 blog, read it here.

PUBLICATION ALERT: Yearbook of the German Assoc. of Chinese Studies (DVCS) 18, ed. by Henningsen, Leese, and Mandzunowski

Wed, 30 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The most recent yearbook of the German Association of Chinese Studies (Deutsche Vereinigung für Chinastudien, DVCS), edited by ChinaComx PI, Lena Henningsen, Daniel Leese, and ChinaComx Postdoc, Damian Mandzunowski, has just been published. It is the outcome of the 2021 annual DVCS conference that we jointly organized in Freiburg.

See the publisher’s website for all the details, or click here to download the table of contents in PDF.

Graduate Workshop 'Caricature and Comics in a Global Context' on 22 July in Heidelberg

Mon, 07 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

We are cordially inviting you to join a graduate workshop titled Caricature and Comics in a Global Context: Brazil, Turkey, Iran, Algeria, China, and Taiwan to be held on 22 July 2025 between 8:45 and 18:30 at the Seminarraum Werkstatt in Albert-Ueberle-Weg 3-5.

We especially invite scholars and students to the keynote lecture, delivered by ChinaComx Visiting Scholar Ivan Gomes (Federal University of Goiás) at 14:00, see below for poster and abstract.

Lena Henningsen and Damian Mandzunowski to Present at the 'Competing for the People’s Eyes and Ears from Mao to Xi' Symposium, 27-28 June in Prague

Sun, 15 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

ChinaComx PI, Lena Henningsen, and postdoc researcher, Damian Mandzunowski, are about to participate in an international symposium on transformations of cultural life in the PRC titled Competing for the people’s eyes and ears from Mao to Xi: transformations of cultural life in the PRC to be held at Department of Sinology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University and Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation International Sinological Centre at Charles University on June 27–28, 2025.

PUBLICATION ALERT: Lena Henningsen's article on the Lianhuanhua Death(s) of Lu Xun in Closure

Thu, 29 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The recent edition of Closure. Kieler Journal für Comicforschung—a leading German comics studies journal—includes a new article by Lena Henningsen, ChinaComx PI, on the rich imagery of the death of Lu Xun within Chinese lianhuanhua comics. Navigating questions of legacy and visual memory, the article offers a glimpse into the larger project of Chinese Lu Xun comics that Lena is advancing within ChinaComx.

Conference Report by Nick Stember on the ChinaComx Workshop 'Lianhuanhua as Method'!

Thu, 15 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

After a bit over a year since the ChinaComx project commenced, and just over half a year after the team was assembled and our daily work on all things lianhuanhua began, we welcomed to Heidelberg 18 scholars of Chinese (and Asian) cartoon, caricature, comics, lianhuanhua, and other related forms of pictorial narratives for an intensively productive albeit fun workshop on 24-26 April 2025.

Damian Mandzunowski to Present at the Sonic Histories of East Asia Conference, 15-16 May in Venice

Sat, 10 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

ChinaComx postdoc researcher Damian Mandzunowski is to take part in the conference “Sonic Histories of East Asia: Thinking History Through Sound” held on 15-16 May 2025 at the Department of Asian and North African Studies at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

The conference, arising from a growing reception of the sonic turn also in Chinese and Asian Studies, explores how sound, voice, noise, radio, and other auditory media and modes can contribute to a field of Sound Studies that remains dominated by theories drawn from Western experience.

ChinaComx Workshop Announcement: Lianhuanhua as Method, Heidelberg 24-26 April 2025

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

To kickstart the second year of our research project, the ChinaComx team cordially invites scholars working in Europe on Chinese comics, cartoons, picture stories, and other visual narratives to participate in the three-day workshop under the theme of “Lianhuanhua as Method”!

Workshop abstract:

What does it mean to position a distinct medium as the defining element of inquiry? How does this change when the medium is also recognized as a specific (literary) genre? And how do approaches to studying history, art, culture, politics, and society shift when said medium / genre takes center stage in research? The medium in question is lianhuanhua, a distinct Chinese form of comics, and with this workshop, hosted by the ERC-ChinaComx project at Heidelberg University, we welcome interdisciplinary contributions examining lianhuanhua from diverse perspectives: whether as a distinct historical phenomenon, a part of global visual narratives, or a case study illuminating broader cultural or political contexts. How do we define lianhuanhua and how do our definitions change across different times and contexts? And what are the implications—direct and indirect—of approaching lianhuanhua as a research method? A central premise is that lianhuanhua serves as lens for (critical) inquiry: placing lianhuanhua at the forefront of analysis thus aims to expand all our various research approaches and fields. By starting with the image-text and then extending the analysis to other texts, events, and media in the larger context of production, dissemination, and consumption of lianhuanhua, the workshop seeks to offer a site for discussing how we understand the intersections of political communication, visual narratives, and meaning production.

Astrid Y. Xiao to Present at The Child and the Book Conference 2025 in Tilburg

Sat, 05 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

ChinaComx Phd Candidate Astrid Y. Xiao will present her research during the 2025 Child and the Book Conference. This year’s edition is running under the theme “Children Shaping The(ir) World: Between the Exceptional and the Everyday” and will be hosted on 23-25 April 2025 at Tilburg University, Netherlands.

Astrid will present her paper in Session 2 (14:00–15:45) as part of Panel 4: Political Childhoods, chaired by Anna Czernow. Titled “Inventing A Non-typical Young Role Model in Communist China: Everyday Heroism in Comics about Lei Feng (1960s–2020s)”, her talk explores how children’s comics and picturebooks in China has shaped political and moral ideals across generations, through the evolving portrayal of the national icon Lei Feng.

Lena Henningsen to Take Part in Roundtable Discussion on the Art of Copying at AAS 2025

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Our PI, Lena Henningsen, will take part in a roundtable session during this years’ AAS annual conference in Columbus, Ohio.

Titled “On Copying: An Interdisciplinary Conversation”, the roundtable brings together Eugenia Lean, Columbia University; Winnie Wong, University of California, Berkeley; Lena Henningsen, Heidelberg University; Kaijun Chen, Brown University; and Yuan Yi, Concordia University; and is to be chaired by Jacob Eyferth, University of Chicago.

Join the conversation on Friday, March 14, during the 9:00 AM–10:30 AM session at Hyatt, Fayette, 2nd Floor (Panel 2-018)!

Closing Event of a Lianhuanha Exhibition at the CATS Library with ChinaComx

Thu, 10 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

On 15 October 2024 the CATS Library would like to cordially invite you to the finissage of our exhibition “Comics from China: Entertainment – Realities – Propaganda?”!

The finissage offers a last opportunity to view the exhibition, after which Lena Henningsen and Damian Mandzunowski from the ERC project “ChinaComx”, newly established at CATS, will give a keynote speech on the roles of heroes and villains in comics of the Mao era.

Lena Henningsen to Deliver a Talk at Edinburgh on Lu Xun in Lianhuanhua on 9 October

Fri, 27 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

On 9 October 2024 at 11:00 - 12:30, ChinaComx PI Lena Henningsen will deliver a talk titled “Of Eyebrows, Moustaches and Revolutionary Spirit” as part of the Sociology Seminar Lecture Series at the School of Social and Political Science, The University of Edinburgh. The talk will be held at the Violet Laidlaw Room, Chrystal Macmillan Building and online.

To register for the hybrid in-person and online talk, please book your space via Eventbrite.

Damian Mandzunowski and Lena Henningsen to Present on ChinaComx at the NY Comics Symposium on 24 September

Wed, 04 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

As the 399th talk delivered at the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium, Damian Mandzunowski and Lena Henningsen will introduce Chinese comics and the ChinaComx project on Tuesday, 24 Sept. 2024, at 9 pm Heidelberg time / 3 pm New York time. For more, see here.

To register for the online talk via zoom, please email comicssymposium@gmail.com.

Their talk is titled Beyond Captain America and Akira: Heroes and Villains in Chinese Comics and Caricature, abstract:

PUBLICATION ALERT: Article on Caricatures of Jiang Qing co-written by Damian Mandzunowski

Fri, 02 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

A new research article jointly written by Laura Pozzi and ChinaComx researcher Damian Mandzunowski has been published in the August 2024 issue of positions: asia critique.

The article is now also available to read/download via project muse here.

Article abstract:

This article examines how, in the years following the end of the Cultural Revolution (1966 – 76), Jiang Qing 江青 (1914 – 91) became a negative icon of a liberated woman in high office in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). During the Cultural Revolution, Jiang Qing transformed herself into a model female political leader. After her arrest in 1976, however, political caricatures systematically deconstructed her curated image by transforming her into the antithesis of the ideal powerful woman in a socialist society. Since a model liberated female politician was not yet available, Jiang Qing served as an “iconic anti-icon” of women in politics under state socialism. Acknowledging the importance of Jiang Qing as a historical figure in Maoist China, this article analyzes how post – Cultural Revolution caricatures of her provide us with an understanding of the Chinese Communist Party’s anxieties about women in power, and it raises questions about the absence of an iconic woman-leader in the PRC’s political visual culture despite years of campaigning to achieve women’s liberation.

ChinaComx to Present at a Digital Humanities in East Asian Studies Conference in Berlin on 8-12 July

Wed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

ChinaComx researchers Aijia Zhang and Damian Mandzunowski will take part in the workshops and conference Charting the European D-SEA: Digital Scholarship in East Asian Studies jointly organied by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and the Berlin State Library – Prussian Cultural Heritage, to be held on 8-12 July 2024 in Berlin.

Damian will also present on 12 July a joint paper titled “Beyond Manga and Marvel: Digitally Approaching Chinese Comics (Lianhuanhua),” which provides overview of the DH scope of ChinaComx – paper abstract:

Lena Henningsen to Present at the 2024 IÜD Showcase in Heidelberg on 3 July

Wed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

ChinaComx PI, Lena Henningsen, will present on the realm of translating Chinese comics at the ShowCase Dolmetschwissenschaft Live at the Institut für Übersetzen und Dolmetschen (Institute for Translation and Interpreting) at Heidelberg University, in the Konferenzsaal II at Plöck 57A, on 3 July.

The talk is titled “LIANHUANHUA (连环画): CHINESE COMICS IN TRANSLATION AND IN TRANSCULTURAL PERSPECTIVE” and will be at 14:15. For direct access to the Zoom stream, click here.

Damian Mandzunowski Presenting at the Political Lives in Socialist China Conference, 10-12 June in Paris

Thu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

ChinaComx researcher Damian Mandzunowski will present a paper titled Collective Reading Practices After the Cultural Revolution at the conference Political Lives in Socialist China organized by Isabelle Thireau, CNRS/EHESS, CCJ-CECMC and Puck Engman, Center for Chinese Studies at UC Berkeley and held at the EHESS: École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris on 10-12 June 2024. Click here for the program.

His paper abstract:

Lena Henningsen to Present at the Rethinking Modern Chinese Elites Conference in Aix-Marseille on 10-12 June

Sun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

ChinaComx PI, Lena Henningsen, will present a paper at the conference Rethinking Modern Chinese Elites – From Print to Computational Methods: Sources, Languages, and Interdisciplinarity organized by the Elites, Networks and Power in Modern China project at Aix-Marseiile University on 10-12 June 2024.

Her paper abstract:

It is a truism that Chinese culture is a culture of reading; and – with the exception of the time of high socialism – reading has always been a marker of cultural capital. Yet, how exactly did reading impact on individuals, society and the larger developments and transformations in Chinese history? What did Chinese citizens read when, why, and how? In how far was reading a transformative act for everyone – and what readings were limited to certain groups, to intellectual, literary or political elites? Studying historical reading practices poses a number of methodological problems, not least because it is very often a private, even intimate activity of which little historical documents exist. Extant accounts – often autobiographical sources – are ephemeral, anecdotal, and very often vague. To analyze reading practices during China’s long 1970s quantitatively, we developed the ReadAct database (https://readchina.github.io/readact.html) chronicling concrete historical reading acts as recorded in a broad array of life writing sources. In this paper, I will present findings from the database, taking into account the biases and blind spots in the sources and in the database. Considering that most accounts were written by urban educated youth sent to the countryside and considering what they chose to write about in their accounts (and what to leave out) the database chronicles how much of the social, literary and intellectual change commonly associated with the early years of the reform era had its origins in the reading quests of the rusticated educated youth. Moreover, these reading quests also anticipate how as a group these youths – many of them social and political outcasts at the time – would transform into the literary, cultural and / or intellectual elite of the early reform years.

The 2024 Conference of the German Chinese Teacher’s Association Coorganized by ChinaComx

Sun, 28 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

ChinaComx is coorganising this year’s conference of the German Chinese teacher’s association - Fachverband Chinesisch e.V.. The trilingual conference is entitled “Crossing Borders, Teaching China Competence” and will be held at Heidelberg’s Center for Asian and Transcultural Studies. For the program in PDF, click [here](ADD PDF).

Lena Henningsen will give a presentation on the ChinaComx translation project and its involvement in classroom settings: How translating comics is a meaningful and rewarding experience for students of Chinese – and how translated comics can be meaningfully integrated into the teaching about Chinese history, society, culture and literature among different students, ranging from middle schools to universities.

Lena Henningsen to Present ChinaComx at the CATS-Forum 2024

Thu, 25 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

To give a first overview of the ChinaComx project outline, its goals, and research ideas, our PI, Lena Henningsen, will give a presentation at the CATS-Forum held on Friday 26 January 2024, between 11 am (c.t.) – ca. 2 pm, in room 400.02.12 in the Karl Jaspers Centre.

ERC-ChinaComx Begins Its Journey Into the World of Chinese Comics

Mon, 15 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to this new research project titled “ChinaComx: Comics Culture in the People’s Republic of China”!

In the Activities tab you will find all upcoming and past talks, events, and other activities related to the project;
To learn more about the project, see About. You can also visit our page at the website of the Institute of Chinese Studies at Heidelberg University here;
The team members introduce themselves here: Team;
Under the Translations tab you will be redirected to our ongoing repository of Chinese comics in translation;
To read our project-related research output, head over to Publications;
We are preparing a comprehensive bibliography and collection of links related to all things lianhuanhua, to be featured in the Resources tab.

And if you want to get in touch with us — please do! — see Contact for details.

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