Lena Henningsen (University of Freiburg), Lara Yuyu Yang (University of Freiburg)

Textuality and materiality are two key properties of reading practices that are often studied separately. The second session of the online lecture series "Practices of Reading in the PRC", however, will try to engage both into discussion through back-to-back talks. In the first talk, Lena Henningsen will share her thoughts on intertextuality and transtextuality based on the reading of Chinese science fiction. In the second talk, Lara Yuyu Yang treats the second-hand book reading practices as mostly material-centred, and goes on to discuss the tension between materiality and digitalization in China’s online second-hand book reading culture.