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Wuxia vs. Xianxia vs. Xuanhuan: What’s the Difference?

Chinese Donghua 101 featured image comparing Wuxia martial heroes, Xianxia immortal cultivation, and Xuanhuan fantasy worlds

Chinese Donghua 101 · Fantasy & Storytelling Wuxia vs. Xianxia vs. Xuanhuan: What’s the Difference? You start watching Chinese fantasy and everything seems reasonably manageable. There are swords. There are sects. People leap across rooftops. Somebody mentions qi. Fine. Then one character begins cultivating toward immortality, another survives a heavenly tribulation, somebody else opens a […]

What Is Donghua?

Chinese Donghua 101 infographic explaining that donghua (动画) means animation in Chinese and covers Chinese animated stories across genres, styles, and techniques

Chinese Donghua 101 · Start Here What Is Donghua? If somebody told you donghua means “Chinese anime,” they gave you an answer that is useful for approximately thirty seconds. It gets you into the right country, and then it starts quietly causing problems. Donghua (动画 / 動畫, dònghuà) is the ordinary Chinese word for animation. […]

Chinese Donghua

Chinese Donghua featured artwork with a fantasy landscape, traditional architecture, a cultivator, panda, and mythical creature

CVM Sekai · Animation Around the World Chinese Donghua Chinese animation is much bigger than the 3D cultivation epics that often introduce international viewers to it. Donghua includes animated series, films, shorts, children’s programming, fantasy, science fiction, comedy, romance, historical stories, experimental work, adaptations, and original productions created across a Chinese animation tradition that stretches […]