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Animated Encounters is a fascinating account of little-known developments in Chinese animation, a field of growing importance in film and Asian studies. It introduces the history of film animation in China, revealing its early international connections and circulations to trace issues of national culture and inter-ethnic relations and to shed light on the rise of Japanese anime. Author Daisy Du convincingly shows how China's animators continued to work and create across borders from the 1940s to the 1980s, effectively challenging the convention that Communist China was 'closed' during these decades.--Paul Clark, University of Auckland

Engaging and lucidly composed, Animated Encounters not only fills a significant gap in Chinese film historiography with its focus on animation film from the Pacific War to the Cold War, it also contributes refreshing methodological approaches to transnational animation and film studies. Du's careful archival research and intertextual reading informed by interdisciplinary perspectives (including film studies, art history, and gender, children, animal studies) weave a fascinating new narrative of Chinese film history within the context of global modernity. Animated Encounters is a fascinating account of little-known developments in Chinese animation, a field of growing importance in film and Asian studies. It introduces the history of film animation in China, revealing its early international connections and circulations to trace issues of national culture and inter-ethnic relations and to shed light on the rise of Japanese anime. Du convincingly shows how China's animators continued to work and create across borders from the 1940s to the 1970s, effectively challenging the convention that Communist China was 'closed' during these decades. This book offers conceptually innovative and historically detailed readings of a broad range of animation, but it is not just a book about Chinese animation. Digging deep into the composite nature of animation, Du unearths strange artifacts that defy explanation in purely contextual or culturalist terms. Animation here cuts through historically sedimented layers and received geopolitical regions to reveal unexpected zones of aesthetic autonomy that provide fresh insight into the composite nature of modernity in China.

This book offers conceptually innovative and historically detailed readings of a broad range of animation, but it is not just a book about Chinese animation. Digging deep into the composite nature of animation, Du unearths strange artifacts that defy explanation in purely contextual or culturalist terms. Animation here cuts through historically sedimented layers and received geopolitical regions to reveal unexpected zones of aesthetic autonomy that provide fresh insight into the composite nature of modernity in China.--Thomas Lamarre, McGill University Animated Encounters is a fascinating account of little-known developments in Chinese animation, a field of growing importance in film and Asian studies. It introduces the history of film animation in China, revealing its early international connections and circulations to trace issues of national culture and inter-ethnic relations and to shed light on the rise of Japanese anime. Du convincingly shows how China's animators continued to work and create across borders from the 1940s to the 1980s, effectively challenging the convention that Communist China was 'closed' during these decades.--Paul Clark, University of Auckland Engaging and lucidly composed, Animated Encounters not only fills a significant gap in Chinese film historiography with its focus on animation film from the Pacific War to the Cold War, it also contributes refreshing methodological approaches to transnational animation and film studies. Du's careful archival research and intertextual reading informed by interdisciplinary perspectives (including film studies, art history, and gender, children, animal studies) weave a fascinating new narrative of Chinese film history within the context of global modernity.--Zhen Zhang, New York University

Animated Encounters is a fascinating account of little-known developments in Chinese animation, a field of growing importance in film and Asian studies. It introduces the history of film animation in China, revealing its early international connections and circulations to trace issues of national culture and inter-ethnic relations and to shed light on the rise of Japanese anime. Du convincingly shows how China's animators continued to work and create across borders from the 1940s to the 1980s, effectively challenging the convention that Communist China was 'closed' during these decades.--Paul Clark, University of Auckland This book offers conceptually innovative and historically detailed readings of a broad range of animation, but it is not just a book about Chinese animation. Digging deep into the composite nature of animation, Du unearths strange artifacts that defy explanation in purely contextual or culturalist terms. Animation here cuts through historically sedimented layers and received geopolitical regions to reveal unexpected zones of aesthetic autonomy that provide fresh insight into the composite nature of modernity in China.--Thomas Lamarre, McGill University Engaging and lucidly composed, Animated Encounters not only fills a significant gap in Chinese film historiography with its focus on animation film from the Pacific War to the Cold War, it also contributes refreshing methodological approaches to transnational animation and film studies. Du's careful archival research and intertextual reading informed by interdisciplinary perspectives (including film studies, art history, and gender, children, animal studies) weave a fascinating new narrative of Chinese film history within the context of global modernity.--Zhen Zhang, New York University

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Daisy Yan Du is assistant professor in the Division of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong. Allison Alexy is assistant professor in the Department of Women's Studies and the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan.

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