Shaopeng Chen received his PhD degree from University of Southampton, UK, and he is sponsored by the China Scholarship Council (CSC). He holds a MA degree in Animation Arts from Nanjing University of the Arts. China, but his research covers both Chinese animation and live-action Chinese film. Previously, he taught animation production courses at Nanjing Normal University of Special Education, China. In 2010, his paint-on-glass-animated short film The Pipe was included in Animated Short Film Creative Practice, which is the selected teaching material in Jiangsu Province, China. This film also won Excellence Award in The Third Animation and Comics Design Match for College Students in Nanjing City. In 2017, he won the Emru Townsend Award of the Society for Animation Studies (SAS). He has published articles in the peer-reviewed academic journals Asian Culture and History; East Asian Journal of Popular Culture and New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film.