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”.

To read Lena’s recent research on Lu Xun and lianhuanhua, please click here; to learn more about the ChinaComx project, please click here.