Daisy Yan Du

Daisy Yan Du is an associate professor in the Division of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She is the author of Animated Encounters: Transnational Movements of Chinese Animation, 1940s–1970s (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019). Her refereed journal arti­cles have appeared in the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Discourse, Positions, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Journal of Chinese Cine­mas, Women’s Studies Quarterly, and Gender & History, among others. She is the editor of Chinese Animation and Socialism: From Animators’ Perspec­tives (Brill, 2021), and is currently working on two monographs and edit­ing several volumes about animation and new media. She is the founder of the Association for Chinese Animation Studies, established in 2015 and dedicated to introducing and promoting Chinese animation to the English-speaking world.