TY - JOUR
AU - Liu, Shasha
AB - 1316422 ANM0010.1177/17468477251316422animation: an interdisciplinary journalBook review book-review2025 Book review animation: an interdisciplinary journal 2025, Vol. 20(1) 89 –91 Book review © The Author(s) 2025 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions https://doi.org/10.1177/17468477251316422 DOI: 10.1177/17468477251316422 journals.sagepub.com/home/anm Daisy Yan Du, Animated Encounters: Transnational Movements of Chinese Animation, 1940s–1970s. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2019. 258 pp. ISBN: 978 0 824 87210 6 (hbk); ISBN: 978 0 824 87764 4 (pbk). Shasha Liu University of Toronto, Canada What is China’s role in the history of world animation? How does an analysis of Chinese animation contribute to our understanding of socialist China? Animated Encounters challenges the conven- tional view of socialist China as an isolated entity by revealing the international influences embed- ded in Chinese animation. This analysis complicates the concept of a singular national style, as existing studies often revolve around the issue of ‘Chineseness’ and primarily examine references to domestic cultural traditions. In contrast, this study maps the intricate interactions between trans- national, national, and subnational cultural currents that shape the national identity of Chinese animation. By analyzing the multiple dimensions of the so-called national style, Daisy Yan Du’s monograph extends scholarly discussions of ‘movement’ – the medium specificity of animation – to the 
TI - Book review: Animated Encounters: Transnational Movements of Chinese Animation, 1940s–1970s
JF - Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal
DO - 10.1177/17468477251316422
DA - 2025-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/book-review-animated-encounters-transnational-movements-of-chinese-8n6ZtOEM1U
SP - 89
EP - 91
VL - 20
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -