According to the teacher’s feedback on my outline, I changed the topic of my proposal. I chose a topic that I’ve been thinking about a lot for a long time. Why did Chinese mythological animated films spread outside of China? On IMBD, reviews by Nezha, Jiang Ziya and Yang Jian further prove that foreigners can be confused when watching Chinese mythology-animated films, but they also want to understand traditional Chinese culture. So this topic is well worth studying.
On the contrary, Spirited Away, which also has an Oriental cultural background, can earn about 119 million US dollars in foreign countries (literature) and win the Oscar for best feature-length animation. I want to study why this Japanese animated film can successfully spread across cultures, and find out if there are any methods that can help the cross-cultural spread of Chinese mythological animated films.
