China’s role in the history of world animation has been trivialized or largely forgotten. In Animated Encounters Daisy Yan Du addresses this omission in her s

By the turn of the 21st century, animation production has grown to thousands of hours a year in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Despite this, and unlike

With an output of more than 250,000 minutes annually, and with roughly 5,000 producers and production units, the Chinese are leading the field of animated films

China has been one of the first countries to develop its own aesthetic for dynamic images and to create animation films with distinctive characteristics. In rec

This book explores the development of the Chinese animation film industry from the beginning of China’s reform process up to the present. It discusses above a