Time Out | The Official Schoolgirl Milky Crisis Blog
“Film writer Jonathan Clements’s book Anime: A History explores the symbiotic relationship between the Chinese and Japanese animation industries, and the way in which the Chinese have recently disengaged from Japan to go it alone. He notes that China’s latest Five-Year Plan encompassed not only nuclear power and tractor parts, but also the animation industry.”
I’m back punditing about Ne Zha 2, this time for Dave Hughes over at Time Out. Before anyone asks, when I said “Chinese original” of Kung Fu Panda, I was rushing out the door and groping towards the original culture and themes that inspired it: kung fu, wuxia and whatnot. My comments on the film remain resolutely industrial, because that’s what I do, but if you want a more aesthetic take on the movie, Mihaela Mihailova looks at it here at the Association for Chinese Animation Studies blog.
