Here you will find a regularly updated list of my publications, such as:
In other papers and chapters currently in preparation (February 2026), I am addressing questions such as:
How were villains and enemies visually constructed in Chinese socialist comics? What were the patterns of internal circulation and criticism regarding lianhuanhua? How did these comic books double as instruction manuals—and for what instructions exactly? And what was the key driver behind official collective reading practices under Mao?
Articles & Book Chapters
“Wissensasymmetrien. China als Akteur und Objekt (globaler) Debatten—Einleitung,” with Lena Henningsen and Daniel Leese, in Wissensasymmetrien. China als Akteur und Objekt (globaler) Debatten, ed. Lena Henningsen, Daniel Leese, and Damian Mandzunowski: 3-9 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2025), https://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/title_8450.ahtml.
“Jiang Qing, The Iconic Anti-Icon: Visual Dissection of Female Political Power in Post-Mao People’s Republic of China,” with Laura Pozzi, positions 32:3 (2024): 539–572, https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-11164489.
“Factory State of Mind: Spreading ‘Three Ardent Loves’ via Collective Reading Activities in Tianjin, 1983-1985,” in Wissensorte in China, ed. Martin Hofmann and Joachim Kurtz: 165-192 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2023), https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book/1584/chapter/22796.
“News Photography and Visual Political Communication in the People’s Republic of China, 1960s–1980s,” ERCCS – Research Notes No. 4 (2022), https://doi.org/10.25360/01-2022-00062.
Online Articles
“Digital Curatorship, Handling Special Collections, and Lessons Learned from My Pursuit of Historical Photographs of People Reading in China,” The Digital Orientalist, 2 June 2026, https://digitalorientalist.com/2026/06/02/digital-curatorship-handling-special-collections-and-lessons-learned-from-my-pursuit-of-historical-photographs-of-people-reading-in-china/.
“Why Poach When You Can Wander? Michel de Certeau’s Concept of Reading-as-Poaching Revisited,” with Lena Henningsen, READCHINA Interventions 2, 4 May 2021, https://readchina.github.io/interventions/poaching.html.
“Caricatures Criticizing the Gang of Four: Contributors and Publications,” The Maoist Legacy, 1 February 2019, https://maoistlegacy.de/db/exhibits/show/mh-contributors-publications.
“Wang, Zhang, Jiang, and Yao in Caricatures: A Close-Up View,” The Maoist Legacy, 1 November 2018, https://maoistlegacy.de/db/exhibits/show/manhua-closeup.
“The Visual Language of the Caricatures Criticizing the Gang of Four,” The Maoist Legacy, 1 September 2018, https://maoistlegacy.de/db/exhibits/show/manhua-visuallanguage.
“Caricatures Criticizing the Gang of Four,” The Maoist Legacy, 1 June 2018, https://www.maoistlegacy.de/db/caricatures-criticizing-the-gang-of-four.
Academic Translations
Are you a Communist? 你是共产党员吗 (1981), illustrated by Wang Jieyin 王劼音, text by Bai Wanchun 柏万春 and Chen Kehui 陈克会, adapted from an eponymous novel by Zhang Lin 张林, published in Lianhuanhua bao 连环画报 07/1981 (92), pp. ii-8, ChinaComx Translations (09 March 2026), https://chinacomx.github.io/translations/gongchandangyuan/.
Mermaid 人鱼 (1982), written and drawn by He Yongkun 何永坤 and Li Danwu 李旦武, published in Aomi huakan 奥秘画刊 01/1982 (12), pp. 15-18, ChinaComx Translations (01 March 2026), https://chinacomx.github.io/translations/renyu/.
刘亚娟 Liu Yajuan, “「张顺有事件」：一个典型的「树典型」个案 [The ‘Zhang Shunyou Incident’: A Typical Case for the ‘Practice of Cultivating Models’],” with Liu Chang, REVISITING THE REVOLUTION 3 (28 June 2023), 1–60, https://networks.h-net.org/liu-yajuan-zhang-shunyou-incident-typical-case-practice-cultivating-models-zhangshunyoushijian.
徐悲鴻 Xu Beihong, “惑 [In Question],” with Tianyue Wang, Tanda Li, Lijing Zhu and Zhengtang Ma, Činio En Traduko (31 August 2021), 1-8, https://cinioentraduko.com/2021/08/31/inquestion-xubeihong/.
Editorship
Practices of Reading in the People’s Republic of China, ed. Lena Henningsen, Eve Y. Lin, Damian Mandzunowski, Duncan Paterson and Lara Y. Yang (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, forthcoming 2026).
Wissensasymmetrien. China als Akteur und Objekt (globaler) Debatten, ed. Lena Henningsen, Daniel Leese, and Damian Mandzunowski (Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz, 2025).
Book Reviews
Daisy Yan Du, Animated Encounters: Transnational Movements of Chinese Animation, 1940s-1970s (Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2019), Animation Studies 2.0, 19 August 2025, https://blog.animationstudies.org/?p=7281.
John Lent and Xu Ying, Comics Art in China (Jackson: UP of Mississippi 2017/2023), with Lena Henningsen, Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 34:2 (2024): 255-258, https://doi.org/10.1075/japc.00107.hen.
Harriet Evans, Beijing from Below: Stories of Marginal Lives in the Capital’s Center (Durham: Duke UP, 2020), in Historische Zeitschrift 315:1, pp. 131-133, https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/hzhz-2022-1262/html.
Jie Li, Utopian Ruins: A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era (Durham: Duke UP, 2020), in The PRC History Review Book Review Series 28, 12 July 2021, http://prchistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Jie_Li_review.pdf.
Conference Reports
“Practices of Reading in the People’s Republic of China, 10.11.2020-26.01.2020 Freiburg,” H-Soz-Kult, 26 March 2021, https://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/tagungsberichte-8901.
“Work, Workers, and the Heroization of Everyday Life in Global Perspective, 08.06.2018-09.06.2018 Freiburg,” H-Soz-Kult, 12 December 2018, https://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/tagungsberichte-7994.