Chinese Animation

Multiplicities in Motion

Daisy Yan Du, John A. Crespi, Yiman Wang

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Harvard University Press
18 February 2025

Films, movies & cinema; Animated movies & films; Dance & Performing arts; Asian history

Series: Harvard Contemporary China Series

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.

Edited by: Daisy Yan Du, John A. Crespi, Yiman Wang
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9780674297524
ISBN 10: 0674297520
Series: Harvard Contemporary China Series
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 18 February 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

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.