Cartooning, Animation, and Comics Art in China  ATJ100326

The course proposes to follow the history and practices of cartooning, comics art, and animation in China, from late Qing period (second half of 19th century) through 20th century. This would be of interest both to students of China or East Asia as a way of seeing the key historic events from new angles and to students outside of sinology as a path to envision China’s transformations in late Qing, Republican, socialist, and post-socialist periods.

During the lectures we look at various local roots of hand-drawn, mechanically-reproduced, and digital images which have become widespread in China in this period; at stylistic and technical varieties of cartooning, comics art, and animation; at local and international contexts of their existence and evolution; and at various functions these visual sources served at different times. Seminars allow the students to engage in analysis and discussion of materials of their own choice within the course’s framework, chiefly as a means of widening students’ awareness of existing online databases and possible sources for historical and cultural research.

Úterý, 14.30 – 15.45, 423/C, Mariia Guleva (doktorandka, Dějiny a kultury Asie)