According to Lent (2000), what place does animation occupy in Asian societies? How different is this across Asia (ie comparing China and Japan)?
Lent(2000) stated that animation’s fit in Asia can be found in two main sectors, which was for both political and economic gain. Since Japanese government in comparison to Chinese was a lot more democratic, the way that these animations occupied their society was vastly different and due to this, there was an unconfined accessibility for these animations. As for China, since there was a communist government there, the political aspects overruled everything else. The influence of animations in China was stressed on morals and partially motivated by politics. Western animations was limited and at times even banned to make way for local cartoons instead. While in Japan, they were inspired to make animations based on animations from western societies, namely Disney. While they had their products freely made with no limitations or motivations and this grew to be one of their main exports not to just the western world but also within Asia as well.
Lent, J. A. (2000). Animation in Asia: appropriation, reinterpretation, and adoption or adaptation. Retrieved 20 August, 2011, from
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/firstrelease/fr1100/jlfr11c.htm 
Hay Farish! Good post! I have not read the article by Lent so it was really interesting to hear that the variation was due to political reasons. But now that I come to think of it, it’s obvious that it would be the reason for the difference!
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