Calling for a Hero: The Displacement of the Nezha Archetypal Image from Chinese Animated Film Nezha Naohai (1979) to New Gods: Nezha Reborn (2021)

Agten, Jean. 2019. Bibliodrama: Introducing Stories from Narrative Traditions in the Development of Young People’s Life Orientation. Education Sciences 9: 1–16.

Cappelletti, A. 2019. Between Centrality and Re-scaled Identity: A New Role for the Chinese State in Shaping China’s Image Abroad. Chinese Political Science Review 4: 349–374. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41111-019-00129-x.

Chai, B. 2021. The View of Chinese Culture and the Imbalance of Cultural Industry’s Development from “Nezha: Birth of the Demon Child.” Journal of Contemporary Educational Research 5 (1): 1–5.

Chan, H.-I. 2008. Legends of the Building of Old Peking. University of Washington Press.

Cheng, Evelyn. 2021. China’s young people struggle to find jobs as unemployment rate holds at 13.1%. CNBC. Retrieved on July 1, 2021. Available at https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/15/chinas-young-people-are-still-having-a-hard-time-finding-jobs.html.

Chengcheng, Y. 2019. Aesthetic Dilemmas of Adaptation and the Politics of Subjectivity: Animating the Chinese Classic Journey to the West. International Research in Children’s Literature 12 (1): 34–46.

Chu, X. 2021. Literary Visions and Categorical Thinking. Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences 14: 303–317. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40647-020-00286-3.

Cui, Jian. 2006. The Pursuit of a National Style of Chinese Animation. Animation Journal 14 (2006): 44–62.

Dai, C. 2015. Advancing Cross-Cultural Understanding Through Experimental Literary Translation: Chinese Translation of Finnegans Wake in China. Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences 8: 335–346. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40647-015-0079-6.

de Kloet, J., and A.Y. Fung. 2016. Youth Cultures in China. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Denham, Robert D. 1991. A World in a Grain of Sand: Twenty-Two Interviews with Northrop Frye. New York: Peter Lang.

Du, D.Y. 2019. Animated Encounters: Transnational Movements of Chinese Animation, 1940s–1970s, 2019. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

Durand, G. 1994. L’imaginaire, essai sur les sciences et la philosophie de l’image. Paris: Hatier.

Durand, G. 1979/1993. De la mitocrítica al mitoanálisis. Figuras míticas y aspectos. Barcelona, Anthropos.

Frye, Northrop. 1971. Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Greimas, A.J., and François Rastier. 1968. The Interaction of Semiotic Constraints. Yale French Studies 4 (1): 86–105.

Gutierrez, J. 2011. Los héroes de papel y el papel de los heroes. Revista De Estudios De Juventud. 96 (5): 87–103.

Huang, Hongji. 2017. To the front: Contemporary youth culture development and its trend. Youth Research 3: 20–23.

Jay, J.E. 2019. The Use of the Past to Shape the Present: Shifting Depictions of the Ancient World in Twentieth-Century American Cinema. Fudan J. Hum. Soc. Sci. 12: 61–78. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40647-018-0225-z.

Jung, Carl G. 1999. The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious. Beijing: China Social Science Publishing House.

Kim, Elaine H. 1982. Asian American Literature. An Introduction to the Writings and their Social Context. Philadelphia: Temple, UP Impreso.

Koptseva, Natalia P. 2016. ‘The Chinese Dream’ Through the Mirror of Modern Social Research. Journal of Siberian Federal University 2 (9): 374–393.

Levi-Strauss, C. 1958. Anthropologie structurale. Paris: Plan.

Li, Xuan. 2020. Father’s Involvement in Chinese Societies: Increase Presence, Uneven Progress. Child Development Perspectives 14 (3): 150–156.

Lin, Xi. 2020. The Engaged Spectator: Reading BL Novels in Contemporary China. Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences 13 (233): 257.

Louie, Kam. 2014. Chinese masculinity studies in the twenty-first century: Westernizing, Easternizing and globalizing wen and wu. NORMA 9 (1): 18–29.

Ma, Zhonghong, and Changzheng Yang. 2016. New media, new youth, and new culture: Research on online pop culture among the Chinese youth. Beijing: Tsinghua University Press.

Macdonald, Sean. 2015. Animation as Intertextual Cinema: Nezha Naohai (Nezha Conquers the Dragon King). Animation an Interdisciplinary Journal 10 (3): 205–221.

Mishra, S.K. 2020. Chinese Short Stories 12: The Foolish Old Man Who Moved the Mountains: Graded Reader Series, A Basic Chinese Reading Book. KDP Print US: Amazon Digital Service.

Roh, David S. 2015. Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press.

Saitō T. 2011. Beautiful Fighting Girl. Trans. J. Keith Vincent and Dawn Lawson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Sangren, P.S. 2000. Chinese Sociologics: An Anthropological Account of Alienation and Social Reproduction. London: Athlone.

Shahar, Meir. 2015. Oedipal God: The Chinese Nezha and His Indian Origins. Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press.

Shen, Xuezheng, Jingwen Li, Yunzhou Zhang, Liu Shanshan, Jangsun Hong, and Jongyoon Lee. 2020. Devil or God: Image Transformation of Chinese Mythology Character “Nezha” (1927–2019). Cartoon and Animation Studies 3: 159–200.

Sheng, K. 2013. The Different faces of Nezha in modern Taiwanese Culture. Oriental Archive 81 (3): 391–410.

Smith, M., and J. Morra. 2006. The Prosthetic Impulse: From a Posthuman Present to a Biocultural future. Cambridge, USA: MIT Press.

Sun E. 2019. Nezha, a revamped tale from Chinese mythology, became the country’s biggest-ever animated movie. Radii. Retreived on 20 June 2021. Available at: https://radiichina.com/nezha-biggest-ever-animated-film/ (accessed 19 April 2020).

Tan, K.C., and S. Cheng. 2020. Sang subculture in post-reform China. Global Media and China 5(1): 86–99. https://doi.org/10.1177/2059436420904459

Teh, Cheryl. 2021. More and more Chinese 20-somethings are rejecting the rat race and ‘lying flat’ after watching their friends work themselves to death. Insider. Retreived on 29 June 2021. Available at https://www.insider.com/disenchanted-chinese-youth-join-a-mass-movement-to-lie-flat-2021-6.

Wei, B. 1993. Old Shanghai. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.

Whyke, Thomas William. 2020. Male Homosexuality and Foxes in Ji Yun’s Zhiguai Collection Tales of the Thatched Cottage. Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences 13: 357–374. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40647-019-00276-0.

Whyke, Thomas William, and Melissa Shani Brown. 2020. The Face of the Non/Human: Human-Animal Encounters in Pu Songling’s Liaozhai Zhiyi. Society and Animals. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685306-BJA10031.

Whyke, Thomas William, and Melissa Shani Brown. 2021. Becoming-Perverse: Queering Sworn Brotherhood in the Non/Human Realm of Song Zhuxuan’s Hailiwa and Daokousu. Journal of Homosexuality. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2021.1912556.

Whyke, Thomas William, and Zhongli Yu. 2020. Becoming Woman in Pu Songling’s Strange Tales. Journal of Chinese Humanities 6 (1): 92–113. https://doi.org/10.1163/23521341-12340085.

Whyke, Thomas William., Lopez-Mugica, Joaquin, & Brown, Melissa Shani. 2021. Contemporizing the National Style in Chinese Animation: The Case of Nezha (2019). Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal. (Forthcoming)

Xu, Guangqiu. 2012. Chinese Anti-Western Nationalism, 2000–2010. Asian and African Studies 16 (2): 109–134.

Young, S.H. 2017. Meir Shahar, Oedipal God: The Chinese Nezha and His Indian Origins. History of Religions 57 (1): 103–106.

Zou, Wuying, Neil Anderson, and Komla Tsey. 2013. Middle-class Chinese parental expectations for their children’s education. Procedia—Social and Behavioral Sciences 106: 1840–1849.