Chinese Independent Animation: Renegotiating Identity in Modern China

Introduction.- 'Postsocialism' and 'Independence'.
Chapter 1: A dispersed 'independent' ecology. 1.1 The Meishu Legacy. 1.2 An Emergent 'Animation Industry'. 1.3 The Pioneer of Chinese Independent Animation - Shanke. 1.4 Toward an 'Ecological' Conception of Independent Animation.
Chapter 2: Understanding the Ecology of Independent Chinese Animation within the context of China's Post-Socialist Reality.- 2.1 Minjian Individuality. 2.2 From production pipeline to platform: the CIAFF. 2.3 Conclusion: Assembling Ambiguous Contradictions.
Chapter 3: The Imaginative World of Pisan. 3.1 Pisan - Redefining 'Independence'. 3.2 An Icon of Resistance - Kuangkuang. 3.3 Parallel 'Realities' in Miss Puff. 3.4 'Parallel' Responses of Pisan Within the Chinese Media Ecology. 3.5 Conclusion.
Chapter 4: Lei Lei: A 'third way': Lei Lei and the Festival circuit. 4.1 The journey towards independence. 4.2 Early 'rebellion' through animation Face (2007). 4.3 Post-socialist 'reality' and collective 'identity'. 4.4 Lei Lei's Transcendent Response to the Media Ecology. 4.5 Conclusion.
Chapter 5: The Future Prospect of the Chinese Independent Animation Ecology. 5.1 The mainstream path: a national ideology of Chineseness. 5.2 The evolving independent path: disoriented individual identity. 5.3 An ideological mirror: Piercing I. 5.4 Conclusion.
Chapter 6: Conclusion.