“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, ...

China's film industry saw animated features deliver exceptional results in 2025, with nationwide box office revenue reached 51.832 billion yuan (about $7.37 billion).

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 ...

Animated Chinese blockbuster 'Ne Zha 2', based on traditional mythology, has smashed multiple box office records on its way to becoming the country's most successful ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chris Bremble, founder of a Beijing-headquartered visual effects and animation firm called Base Media and an Emmy award winner, remembers the first time he heard about generative artificial ...

A24's new dub of the Chinese animated film features Michelle Yeoh in the telling of a high fantasy animated adventure. “Ne Zha 2” isn’t the first Chinese film to challenge Hollywood productions in ...