This week we slow things down to talk about a subject that I'm very passionate about, animation!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-g9lRT-gpA

The history of animation in China is a tough subject to study, but it offers great insight into the Chinese culture. It's something quite different from Disney and Studio Ghibli western animation and Japanese anime, and one day soon Chinese animation will be up there along beside them.

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Chen, Y. 2015, "The Rebel of the Chinese School: Modernist Expression in A Da's Late Animations", Modernism/Modernity, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 81-104.

Chen, Y 2017, 'Old or new art? Rethinking classical Chinese animation', Journal Of Chinese Cinemas, 11, 2, pp. 175-188, Art Full Text (H.W. Wilson), EBSCOhost, viewed 13 October 2017.

Du, D.Y. 2017, "Suspended animation: The Wan Brothers and the (In)animate Mainland-Hong Kong Encounter, 1947-1956", Journal of Chinese Cinemas, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 140-158.

Hu, T.G. 2013, "Reflections on the Wan Brothers’ Letter to Japan" in University Press of Mississippi,