Heavenly Havoc

It’s five teenage girls, four giant robots, three pooka, two army companies, and one airship against the whole of the Oversky. You’ve got to be kidding. Whose plan was this? Lennia! In good news, Lekodias has been defeated. In bad news, she’s now Empress of the Oversky, with powerful generals at her command. The fate of both worlds comes down to this, one last epic battle that will shake the heavens themselves.

China has been one of the first countries to develop its own aesthetic for dynamic images and to create animation films with distinctive characteristics. In recent years, however, and subject to the influence of Western and Japanese animation, the Chinese animation industry has experienced several new stages of development, prompting the question as to where animation in China is heading in the future. This book describes the history, present and future of China’s animation industry. The author divides the business’s 95-year history into six periods and analyses each of these from an historical, aesthetic, and artistic perspective. In addition, the book focuses on representative works; themes; directions; artistic styles; techniques; industrial development; government support policies; business models; the nurturing of education and talent; broadcasting systems and animation. Scholars and students who are interested in the history of Chinese animation will benefit from this book and it will appeal additionally to readers interested in Chinese film studies.

Literary Representations of Christianity in Late Qing and Republican China examines the multiple representations of Christianity through the major genres of Chinese Christian literature (novels, drama and poetry) of the late Qing and Republican periods.

The Dynamic Essence of Transmedia Storytelling challenges many established truths about popular literary classics by presenting an analysis of sixty Korean variations of The Journey to the West, a set which includes novels and poems, as well as films, comics, paintings, and dance performances dating from the 14th century until today. In contrast to the typical assumption that literary classics like The Journey to the West are stable texts with a single original, Barbara Wall approaches The Journey to the West as a dynamic text comprised of all its variations. She argues that all the creators of such variations, from Korean scholars in the 14th century to “boy bands” like Seventeen in the 21st century, participate in the ongoing story world known as The Journey to the West. Wall employs literary and quantitative analysis, ample graphic visualizations, and in-depth descriptions of classroom games to find new ways to understand the dynamics of transmedia storytelling and popular engagement with story worlds. Her approach opens new frontiers of intertextual analysis to literary scholars and teachers of literature who seek contemporary methods of introducing world literature to new generations of students.

Recent Genetic and Archaeological advancements have begun to turn the world on its head. The research put forth by noted personalities such as Zechariah Sitchin and Lloyd Pye is no longer being ignored by the public at large, and questions that have long lain dormant are now being asked. What is The Truth about 'God'? What is The Truth about Aliens? What is The Truth about Humanity's Origin? With frequent discoveries of ancient artifacts and technology out of sync with reported history, the search for the actual truth is beginning to take precedent. What is contained within 'The Fire of Prometheus and The Crucible of Gold' is The Beginning and The End of the search for the diligent Seeker of Truth.