Chinese Animation: Multiplicities in Motion (Harvard Contemporary China Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674297539 ISBN 13: 9780674297531

Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center, 2025

Synopsis

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.

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About the Authors

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674297539
• ISBN 13: 9780674297531
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 467
• Editor: Du Daisy Yan, Crespi John A., Wang Yiman