Duan Jia is a professor at the Beijing Film Academy, the author of the soon-to-be-published Animation World History, and an award-winning animator.

The entire family will enjoy this selection of classics of Chinese animation, drawing on a variety of styles and techniques. A Clever Duckling was adapted from the folk art of folded paper. Monkeys Fish the Moon is a charming cut-paper animation about some very silly monkeys. The most beloved animation in China, Three Monks, offers a unique version of an ancient proverb about learning to live and work together. Snipe-Clam Grapple uses delicate cut-paper animation to illustrate a proverb. Te Wei's final brush-painting animation, Feeling from Mountain and Water, tells the tender story of the bond between a master musician and his young protégé. Duan Jia's Lotus was created as a 3-D animation choreographed to music; it integrates Chinese and Western art, and moves from poetic beauty to destruction and rebirth.