%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