Short CV
Lena Henningsen is a Junior Professor for Chinese Studies at Freiburg University. She wrote a PhD thesis on plagiarism in contemporary Chinese literature. Before that, she was educated in Chinese Studies, Political Sciences and Musicology from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Heidelberg University and Nanjing Normal University (PR China).
Selected Awards
- 2013-2018, Member of the German Young Academy (Junge Akademie an der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina)
- 2017, ERC Starting Grant “The Politics of Reading in the People’s Republic of China”
- 2016, Leopoldina Early Career Award
- 2008, Young Scholar Award of the European Association for Chinese Studies’.
Research Interests
Chinese Society, Literature and Culture of the 20th and 21st centuries
Cultures of Reading
Digital Humanities
Selected Publications
- Henningsen, Lena: Crime, Love, and Science: Continuity and Change in Hand-copied Entertainment Fiction (shouchaoben) from the Cultural Revolution. In: Transforming Book Culture in China, 1600-2016 (Kodex: Yearbook of the International Society for Book Science). Harrassowitz, 2016, 101-119.
- Henningsen, Lena; Landa, Sara: Verliebte Helden, rebellische Dichter und das "Erwachen des Selbst-Bewusstseins". Heldenstilisierung in der chinesischen Literatur der langen 1970er Jahre, 2015.
- Henningsen, Lena: Individualism for the masses? Coffee consumption and the Chinese middle class' search for authenticity. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 13 (3), 2012, 408-427.
- Henningsen, Lena: Coffee, Fast Food, and the Desire for Romantic Love in Contemporary China: Branding and Marketing Trends in Popular Chinese-Language Literature. , Hrsg.: Transcultural Studies: University Library Heidelberg, 2011.
- Copyright Matters: Imitation, Creativity and Authenticity in Contemporary Chinese Literature. Intersentia / Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2010.
Publications as TUM-IAS-Fellow
