Guest Lecture: The Sublime Figure of (In)animation

Daisy Yan Du is an Associate Professor in the Division of Humanities at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Her first monograph, Animated Encounters: Transnational Movements of Chinese Animation 1940s-1970s, was published by the University of Hawaii Press in 2019. Her refereed journal articles appeared inAnimated Encounters: Transnational Movements of Chinese Animation 1940s-1970s. She is the editor of Animated Encounters: Transnational Movements of Chinese Animation 1940s-1970s (Brill, 2021), and is currently working on two monographs and editing a few volumes about animation and new media. She is the founder of the Association for Chinese Animation Studies (https://acas.world/), which is dedicated to introducing and promoting Chinese animation to the English-speaking world.