Chinese Animation

Reviews / Votes

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 * By refusing to treat Chinese animation as merely a subcategory of either Chinese cinema or global animation studies, the editors have created essential reading for scholars across multiple fields...Grounded in the early digital era, the book blends a century-long retrospective with a clear map for future scholarship, embracing the contradictions that keep Chinese animation fresh and scholarly inquiry exciting. -- Thomas William Whyke * China Quarterly * 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