By Isabel Galwey Some of the most famous animations of the socialist period in Mainland China were made using the Shanghai Animation Film Studio’s ink painting animation techniques. Masterpieces such as Little Tadpoles Look for Mama (1960) and Feelings of Mountain and Water (1988) brought traditional paintings to life through painstaking frame-by-frame animation. Since the … Continue reading Expresii and the Future of Ink-painting Animation
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By Lo Wing Keung; translated by Yixing Li Greetings. I am honored to share my work experience with all of you. Let me begin with a brief self-introduction. When I was 20 years old, I joined Hong Kong TVB as a screenwriter of variety shows, writing scripts for comical skits, television series and movies, and … Continue reading The Exploration of Original Animation in China: From Pleasant Goat to Red Squirrel Mai
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The history of Hong Kong animation has always been translocal and transnational. It can be traced back to at least the late 1940s, when some mainland animators and cartoonists in exile like the Wan Brothers, Zhang Guangyu, Liao Bingxiong, and Te Wei made animated shorts and even experimented with the making of an animated feature film … Continue reading Animators’ Roundtable Forum: Hong Kong Animation, Zoom Webinar, May 12-14, 2022
By Shasha Liu From March 1st to May 12th, 2021, I participated in the Inaugural Conference of the Association for Chinese Animation Studies (Zoom webinar), organized by Professor Daisy Yan Du at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Fig 1). Especially my being a graduate student, the conference provided me with the unique … Continue reading Report on the Inaugural Conference of the Association for Chinese Animation Studies
By Andrew G. Cohen, Director of HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study, HKUST Good morning or perhaps good evening, depending on your current location, and greetings from Hong Kong. Thank you all for joining this Inaugural Conference of the Association for Chinese Animation Studies, and welcome to HKUST. The HKUST Institute for Advanced Study is … Continue reading Welcome Speech 2
By Kellee Tsai, Dean of Humanities and Social Science, HKUST Good morning everyone, I am Kellee Tsai, on behalf the School of Humanities and Social Science here at HKUST. I am delighted to welcome all of you from around the world to the Inaugural Conference of the Association for Chinese Animation Studies. This conference has been years … Continue reading Welcome Speech 1
By Daisy Yan Du We have been running the Inaugural Conference of the Association for Chinese Animation Studies for almost 3 months and it’s time for us to conclude now. On March 1, Professors Yingjin Zhang and Thomas Lamarre’s keynote speeches about the histories and places of Chinese animation set the stage for this conference … Continue reading Closing Remarks
By Daisy Yan Du Hello, everyone. Welcome to the inaugural Conference of the Association for Chinese Animation Studies! I am Daisy Yan Du, from the Division of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Thirteen years ago, when I was working on my PhD dissertation at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I never … Continue reading Opening Remarks