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Book review: Animation in China: History, Aesthetics, Media

and analysis in achieving that. By placing early animation in the immediate context of other cultural practices, and the wider social and political context of their period, he brings fresh understanding to a history that may have seemed settled. He writes in his introduction: ‘It would be easy to suggest that ... times were different then. Yet times are always different – that’s what makes them times’ (p. 8). Only through the kind of historical and theoretical contextual work Sammond conducts here can we understand and demonstrate animation’s centrality to ‘the times’, whether past, present, or future.