Chinese Animation and Socialism

From Animators’ Perspectives

Buch | Hardcover

282 Seiten

2021
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-49959-1 (ISBN)

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This is the first book in English on Chinese animation and socialism that introduces the insider viewpoints of socialist animators at the Shanghai Animation Film Studio. A timely and useful reference book for researchers, students, animators, and fans interested in Chinese and even world animation.

Please visit our blog to read an interview with Daisy Yan Du.

This volume on Chinese animation and socialism is the first in English that introduces the insider viewpoints of socialist animators at the Shanghai Animation Film Studio in China. Although a few monographs have been published in English on Chinese animation, they are from the perspective of scholars rather than of the animators who personally worked on the films, as discussed in this volume. Featuring hidden histories and names behind the scenes, precious photos, and commentary on rarely seen animated films, this book is a timely and useful reference book for researchers, students, animators, and fans interested in Chinese and even world animation.

This book originated from the Animators’ Roundtable Forum (April 2017 at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), organized by the Association for Chinese Animation Studies.

Daisy Yan Du is Associate Professor, Division of Humanities at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She is the author of Animated Encounters: Transnational Movements of Chinese Animation 1940s-1970s (University of Hawaii Press, 2019) and the founder of the Association for Chinese Animation Studies (http://acas.ust.hk/), an organization dedicated to promoting Chinese animation to the English-speaking world.

Acknowledgments

List of Figures

List o Contributors

Introduction

Chinese Animation and Socialism

Daisy Yan Du

PART 1

The Splendor of Socialist Animation

1 Mochinaga Tadahito in Early Socialist China

Mochinaga Noriko, translated by Nick Stember and Yan Chen

2 Walking Our Own Path and Innovating

Duan Xiaoxuan, translated by Nick Stember

3 An Authentic Animator

Yan Dingxian, translated by Nick Stember

4 Dribs and Drabs

Lin Wenxiao, translated by Nick Stember

5 National Style and Characterization

Pu Jiaxiang, translated by Isabel Galwey

6 On the Art of Papercutting Animation

Pu Yong, translated by Isabel Galwey and Eva Chang

PART 2

The Transition to Postsocialist Animated Filmmaking

7 From Layman to Animator

Yan Shanchun, translated by Isabel Galwey and Eva Chang

8 In Love with Science Fiction Animation

Dai Tielang, interviewed by Daisy Yan Du, organized by Song Han, translated by Yixing Li

9 Tradition and Innovation

Chang Guangxi, translated by Sean Macdonald

10 Yilimei and the Shanghai Animation Film Studio

Zhou Keqin, translated by Yixing Li

PART 3

The Soundscape of (Post)Socialist Animation

11 Synesthesia of Music and Image

Jin Fuzai, translated by Sean Macdonald

12 My Career as an Animation Voice Actress

Ding Jianhua, interviewed by Daisy Yan Du, organized by Song Han, translated by Yixing Li

PART 4

The Literary Landscape of (Post)Socialist Animation

13 My Career as a Screenwriter

Ling Shu, translated by Yixing Li

PART 5

In Memory of Socialist Animators

14 Those Who Should Not Be Forgotten

Yin Xiyong, translated by Eva Chang

15 In Memory of My Father Wang Shuchen

Wang Yiqian, translated by Yixing Li

PART 6

More than a Fairy Tale: Politics and Chinese Animation

16 A Tradition of Political Propaganda

Fung Yuk Song, translated by Isabel Galwey and Shaopeng Chen

PART 7

Chinese Animation Goes Abroad

17 Chinese Animation in Japan, 1940s–80s

Ono Kōsei, translated by Isabel Galwey, Eva Chang, and Yan Chen

Epilogue

Socialist Legacy in the Digital Age

Daisy Yan Du

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	11.10.2021
Reihe/Serie	China Studies ; 43
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	627 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
ISBN-10	90-04-49959-8 / 9004499598
ISBN-13	978-90-04-49959-1 / 9789004499591
Zustand	Neuware