Book Talk: 𝘾𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙚 𝘼𝙣𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣: 𝙈𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙞𝙥𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙈𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣

Daisy Yan Du, Associate Professor, Division of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology  

Moderator: TBD

Registration appreciated for planning purposes. 

About the book: 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.