The Evolution of Story and Discourse：Novel Evidence from a Narratological Perspective and a Case Study in Chinese Animated Films

This paper explores the changes in the story topics and stylistic discourse of Chinese animated films from a narratological perspective, with the aim of providing theoretical support for the innovative development of the Chinese animation school. The research found that from the 1950s to the present day, Chinese animation has successively undergone story changes from collective narrative to personal narrative, and then to the narrative of a community with a shared future for mankind, as well as discourse changes from drawing on traditional art forms to blending Chinese and foreign cultural elements, and then to reconstructing an oriental aesthetic mood. It is ultimately proposed that the story of a community with a shared future for mankind be constructed from an individual perspective, that cultural symbolic discourse be constructed from cultural material symbols, that the goal in external communication be “cultural mutual understanding” rather than “cultural hegemony”, that traditional Chinese cultural resources be integrated into a global perspective, and that the cross-cultural communication of Chinese culture be promoted.