“Donghua” — much like “anime” for Japanese speakers — is simply the Chinese word for “animation.” After decades of stagnation in the animation industry, going as far back as the Cultural Revolution, ...

Chinese anime, or Donghua, has come a long way in recent years. What was once full of modest, experimental projects has now grown into a booming industry filled with exquisite art and fluid animation.

The quote that opens Chinese director Liu Jian’s shaggy but amiable new animated feature is instructive. “To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life” is a passage from James ...

Donghua — Chinese animation, sometimes mistakenly conflated with anime — covers as wide a variety of tones and subjects as any other type of animated story, from sunny necromancers to particularly ...

An animated series featuring monster-like characters, or yao in Chinese, has won praise online for adopting traditional Chinese culture and aesthetics in its animation and storytelling in a way that ...

China’s unwitting creative phenom Yang Zhigang, known as Busifan, presents an imaginative, heartwarming and gleefully chaotic animated journey in his latest feature, “The Storm,” selected to screen in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a year that’s proven a bit soft at the box office, the biggest story (and just plain biggest film, period) is the monstrous ...

Since last October, the intellectual property (IP) character, a round-bodied, short-legged horse with big, watery eyes, has flooded Vietnamese social media feeds with captions such as "working while ...

A Chinese movie about a boy who fights demons and gods alike has become the world’s highest-grossing movie in any single market. With $1.2 billion in box-office revenue so far, “Ne Zha 2,” released ...

The latest Chinese animated series competes with Japanese anime in terms of animation quality, captivating fans worldwide. The show's plot mirrors Solo Leveling, with its protagonist gaining ...

NEW YORK, Oct. 3 (UPI) --Ming-Na Wen says she is proud that her animated series, Gremlins: The Wild Batch, explores early 20th century Asian culture in the United States better than the live-action ...

This following excerpt is taken from “Silver Light and Beautiful Images: A Study on the Art of Modern Chinese Cinema,” and tells the story behind the creation of the 1941 Chinese animated feature film ...