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.