Ghost Animation

How Manying Rebuilt Empire in Postwar East Asia
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-0-520-42802-7
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 242 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Cinema Cultures in Contact

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.This is the first book in any language to examine the animated works of the Manchukuo Film Association, known as Manying in Chinese, a studio established by Japanese authorities during the occupation of Manchuria. Long thought lost to the war, Manying’s films were rediscovered in 1989—yet, in contrast to the studio’s newsreels, documentaries, and live-action feature films, its animated works have largely gone ignored. In this book, Daisy Yan Du draws on research in multiple languages and rarely accessed archives to reveal that Manying made animation central to its mission, even harboring ambitions of building an animation empire across China and beyond. This unrealized dream did not simply vanish with the end of the war, however: its specter lingered, playing a previously untold role in the development of the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean animation industries. Filling a critical gap in our understanding of the development of East Asian and world animation, this groundbreaking work tells the story of the surprising lives, deaths, and afterlives of Manying animation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Du, Daisy Yan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Animationsfilme, Zeichentrickfilme
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ContentsList of FiguresNote to ReadersIntroduction: A Hauntology of Manying Ghost Animation1. The Dream of an Animation Empire: From Manying to Toei Animation2. From the Senga Unit to the Empire of Special Effects: The North China Film Company and Animated Filmmaking in Wartime and Postwar Beijing3. Ghost in the Cel: Manying and Japan’s Animation Outsourcing Empire in Asia4. From Luminous Pearl to Astro Boy: Puppet Filmmaking in Manying and the Rise of Anime Empire in Postwar JapanEpilogue: The Second Death of ManyingAcknowledgmentsAppendix 1: Former Manying Staff in Toyoko and ToeiAppendix 2: Wartime Film Periodicals in North ChinaNotesBibliographyIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Daisy Yan Du is Associate Professor in the Division of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She is author of Animated Encounters: Transnational Movements of Chinese Animation, 1940s–1970s and founder of the Association for Chinese Animation Studies (https://acas.world/).