Overview

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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Chinese Animation is a much-needed intervention in one of the world’s under-disclosed cinemas. The volume’s searching chapters, mobilized adeptly by three of the field’s leading scholars, open passages not only across Chinese cinema and animation, but also onto a broader cultural and intellectual history that situates Chinese animation within a global epistemology. -- Akira Mizuta Lippit, University of Southern California This inspiring transnational collaboration adopts a “kaleidoscopic” approach to a daunting but much-needed project, opening the vast and diverse realm of Chinese animation up for collective thought and dialogue across generations, methodologies, and fields. The result is capacious, illuminating, challenging, and thrilling: a transformative volume. -- Karen Redrobe, University of Pennsylvania Filled with copiously researched technical, cultural, and historical information, this immensely rich volume is an indispensable resource on the state of the art of Chinese animation studies. It will likely usher in a new era of scholarly interest, debate, and productivity in this emergent field. -- Rey Chow, Duke University

This challenging and insightful book, creatively edited by Du, Crespi and Wang, urges readers to focus on dynamic multiplicities that have been in motion for a long time and to abandon fruitless searches for a dominant form of Chineseness and a single form of animation. -- Journal of Chinese History * Paul G. Pickowicz * Chinese Animation is a much-needed intervention in one of the world’s under-disclosed cinemas. The volume’s searching chapters, mobilized adeptly by three of the field’s leading scholars, open passages not only across Chinese cinema and animation, but also onto a broader cultural and intellectual history that situates Chinese animation within a global epistemology. -- Akira Mizuta Lippit, University of Southern California This inspiring transnational collaboration adopts a “kaleidoscopic” approach to a daunting but much-needed project, opening the vast and diverse realm of Chinese animation up for collective thought and dialogue across generations, methodologies, and fields. The result is capacious, illuminating, challenging, and thrilling: a transformative volume. -- Karen Redrobe, University of Pennsylvania Filled with copiously researched technical, cultural, and historical information, this immensely rich volume is an indispensable resource on the state of the art of Chinese animation studies. It will likely usher in a new era of scholarly interest, debate, and productivity in this emergent field. -- Rey Chow, Duke University

Author Information

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.

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