Book launch: 'Animation Thinks: A Story of Media Entanglements in China'

This is the book launch of Dr Panpan Yang's new book Animation Thinks, followed by a drinks reception. The event is hosted by Dr Carwyn Morris (SOAS). Professor Joshua Jiehong Jiang (Birmingham City University) and Dr Annabella Mei Massey (Courtauld) will serve as the interlocutors. 

Animation Thinks charts a fragmentary history of Chinese animation from the 1920s to the present. Focusing on animation's encounters with other art forms, including photography, painting, calligraphy, and porcelain, Panpan Yang examines contemporary Chinese animation trans-spatially, tracing how the meaning of Chinese animated works subtly shifts when moving between spaces such as the film industry and the contemporary art world. 

Ultimately, Yang argues that Chinese animation thinks time and space to a degree unimaginable in other media, offering an understanding of space that is neither completely graphic nor entirely photographic and an understanding of time as heterogeneous, disruptive, and surprising.

Registration

This event is open to the public and free to attend; however, registration is required. This event is taking place on campus and will not be recorded or live-streamed.

Organiser

This event has been organised by the SOAS China Institute.

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