Chinese Animation - Multiplicities in Motion

Chinese Animation: Multiplicities in Motion is the first edited volume that explores the multiple histories, geographies, industries, technologies, media, and transmedialities of Chinese animation, from early animated special effects to socialist classics, from computer-generated-imagery (CGI) blockbusters to edgy independent films, and from stop-motion to virtual reality.

Its fifteen chapters, grouped under the five themes of junctures, gender, identities, digitality, and practices, span a century of animation since the 1920s across mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and the diasporic world. Derived from the 2021 Inaugural Conference of the Association for Chinese Animation Studies (ACAS), this volume as a whole defines Chinese animation studies as a new field of research emerging from the peripheries of modern Chinese literature and film studies on the one hand, and from the margins of Western and Japanese animation studies on the other. Incorporating diverse academic approaches and perspectives, this groundbreaking book is an indispensable guide for a rapidly growing community of scholars, students, animators, fans, and general readers interested in Chinese and world animation.

About the author

Daisy Yan Du is Associate Professor in the Division of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.John Crespi is Professor of Chinese at Colgate University.Yiman Wang is Professor of Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Product details

• Authors: Daisy Yan Crespi Du
• Assisted by: John A Crespi (Editor), Crespi John A. (Editor), Daisy Yan Du (Editor), Yiman Wang (Editor), Wang Yiman (Editor)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.02.2025
• EAN: 9780674297531
• ISBN: 978-0-674-29753-1
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: Harvard Contemporary China Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Dance, HISTORY / Asia / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Animated, Other performing arts, Dance & Other Performing Arts, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Regional & National