The Production and Distribution of Lianhuanhua 1949-1966, Ph.D. Dissertation, by Rebecca Scott, University of Nottingham, 2016. 322 pp.

By Chuanhui Meng Rebecca Scott’s PhD dissertation, “The Production and Distribution of Lianhuanhua 1949-1966″ (University of Nottingham, 2016), looks at an intriguing and understudied medium lianhuanhua (linked pictures) during the first 17 years of socialist China. Through comprehensive and in-depth survey of both the production and distribution of lianhuanhua, Scott sheds exclusive light on political … Continue reading The Production and Distribution of Lianhuanhua 1949-1966, Ph.D. Dissertation, by Rebecca Scott, University of Nottingham, 2016. 322 pp.

Panel 19: 9:00am-11:30am, May 12 (Wednesday, Hong Kong time), Animators’ Perspectives: Independent Animated Filmmaking in the Digital Age (in English and Chinese), chaired by Zhen Zhang, New York University, USA

Panel 19: 9:00am-11:30am, May 12 (Wednesday, Hong Kong time), Animators’ Perspectives: Independent Animated Filmmaking in the Digital Age (in English and Chinese), chaired by Zhen Zhang, New York University, USA  “Memory Clash,” Lei Lei , Experimental Animation Artist “Am I an Animator? The New Trend of Self-made Animator in Hong Kong and Beyond,”  NG Kai Chung Tommy , … Continue reading Panel 19: 9:00am-11:30am, May 12 (Wednesday, Hong Kong time), Animators’ Perspectives: Independent Animated Filmmaking in the Digital Age (in English and Chinese), chaired by Zhen Zhang, New York University, USA

Panel 18: 9:00am-11:40am, May 11 (Tuesday, Hong Kong time), Animation in Hong Kong and Singapore, chaired by Marc Steinberg, Concordia University, Canada 

Panel 18: 9:00am-11:40am, May 11 (Tuesday, Hong Kong time), Animation in Hong Kong and Singapore, chaired by Marc Steinberg, Concordia University, Canada     “Animated Abstraction and Meaning: A Case Study of Hong Kong Artists,” Max Hattler , City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR “Recalling and Storytelling Hong Kong in Animation: No. 7 Cherry Lane,” Tze-yue G. Hu , … Continue reading Panel 18: 9:00am-11:40am, May 11 (Tuesday, Hong Kong time), Animation in Hong Kong and Singapore, chaired by Marc Steinberg, Concordia University, Canada 

Panel 17: 9:00am-11:10am, May 10 (Monday, Hong Kong time), Animation in Taiwan, chaired by Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, Waseda University, Japan

Panel 17: 9:00am-11:10am, May 10 (Monday, Hong Kong time), Animation in Taiwan, chaired by Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, Waseda University, Japan “Animating Worker Subjectivity: Cartoon Characters Modeling Neoliberal Subjectivity in Taiwan,” Teri Silvio , Academia Sinica, Taiwan “Becoming Animated: The Transmedia Performance of Pili Puppetry,” Jasmine Yu-Hsing Chen , Utah State University, USA   “Animating Collective Memories and Traumatic Narratives: Hand in Hand, … Continue reading Panel 17: 9:00am-11:10am, May 10 (Monday, Hong Kong time), Animation in Taiwan, chaired by Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, Waseda University, Japan

Panel 16: 9:00am-11:40am, May 4 (Tuesday, Hong Kong time), Animation Research, Education, and Publication in Mainland China (in Chinese), chaired by Weihua Wu, Communication University of China, PRC

Panel 16: 9:00am-11:40am, May 4 (Tuesday, Hong Kong time), Animation Research, Education, and Publication in Mainland China (in Chinese), chaired by Weihua Wu, Communication University of China, PRC     “A Brief History of Animation Theory in Mainland China,” NIE Xinru East China Normal University, PRC   “How Animation Research Institutes in China Promote the Development of Chinese Animation,” ZHONG Yuanbo , … Continue reading Panel 16: 9:00am-11:40am, May 4 (Tuesday, Hong Kong time), Animation Research, Education, and Publication in Mainland China (in Chinese), chaired by Weihua Wu, Communication University of China, PRC

Panel 15: 9:00am-11:40pm, May 3 (Monday, Hong Kong time), Border-Crossings: Chinese/Japanese Animation, chaired by Sharalyn Orbaugh, University of British Columbia, Canada 

Panel 15: 9:00am-11:40pm, May 3 (Monday, Hong Kong time), Border-Crossings: Chinese/Japanese Animation, chaired by Sharalyn Orbaugh, University of British Columbia, Canada            “Anime in China and ‘Connective’ Memory in East Asia,” Alexander Zahlten , Harvard University, USA “Mochinaga Tadahito and the Question of Chinese, Japanese, and American Animation,” Jason Cody Douglass , Yale University, USA … Continue reading Panel 15: 9:00am-11:40pm, May 3 (Monday, Hong Kong time), Border-Crossings: Chinese/Japanese Animation, chaired by Sharalyn Orbaugh, University of British Columbia, Canada