%0 Journal Article
%T Dong for Movements, Hua for Paintings: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Investigating Chinese Donghua
%A Minhyoung Kim
%J Animation
%@ 1746-8485
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1746847718809671
%X This article questions a longstanding definition of animation that lacks aspects of cultural diversity in part; it reexamines the socio-cultural formation of modern animation from less known regions of China and investigates Chinese animation known as donghua (¶¯»­). The goal is to demonstrate the transdisciplinary nature of donghua acquired through dynamic interactions in this heterogeneous site of production of visual culture in modern China. The author suggests a concept-based framework to more accurately describe animation in China composed of three specific dimensions of donghua: translinguality, transnationality and transmediality. To conclude, the author reveals that the study of donghua helps generate a more widely defined spectrum of the now divergent ¡®cultural field¡¯ of ¡®animations¡¯ and therefore leads to a ¡®translocal imagining of animation¡¯ appropriate for today¡¯s increasingly mobile world
%K Chinese animation
%K donghua
%K modern China
%K transdisciplinarity
%K translinguality
%K translocality
%K transmediality
%K transnationality
%K visual culture
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1746847718809671