Editing Cinema of China (section)

=== Before the 1950s ===
Inspired by the success of [[Disney]] animation, the self-taught pioneers [[Wan brothers]], Wan Laiming and [[Wan Guchan]], made the first Chinese [[animated short]] in the 1920s, thus inaugurating the history of Chinese animation. (Chen Yuanyuan 175)<ref name="Chen, Yuanyuan 2017, pp. 175-188">Chen, Yuanyuan. "Old Or New Art? Rethinking Classical Chinese Animation." Journal of Chinese Cinemas, vol. 11, no. 2, 2017, pp. 175-188.</ref> Many live-action films of the Republican era also included animated sequences.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://chinesefilmclassics.org/animation-and-cartoons/| title = Animation and Cartoons 卡通與漫畫 - Chinese Film Classics| date = 23 April 2021}}</ref>

In 1937, the Wan brothers decided to produce 《铁扇公主》'' [[Princess Iron Fan (1941 film)|Princess Iron Fan]]'', which was the first Chinese animated feature film and the fourth, after the American feature films ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)|Snow White]]'', ''[[Gulliver's Travels (1939 film)|Gulliver's Travels]]'', and ''[[The Adventures of Pinocchio (unfinished film)|The Adventures of Pinocchio]]''. It was at this time that Chinese animation as an art form had risen to prominence on the world stage. Completed in 1941, the film was released under China United Pictures and aroused a great response in Asia. Japanese animator Shigeru Tezuka once said that he gave up medicine after watching the cartoon and decided to pursue animation.{{citation needed|date=July 2023}}