Chinese Animation and Socialism

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