Animated documentaries were selected through purposive sampling. The selection criteria included films made by Chinese or Chinese-diasporic directors, films addressing China, Chinese identity, Chinese history or society, and films that were publicly accessible for research. Production information, director location and circulation information were collected from publicly available sources. Film dialogue was transcribed and cleaned, and Chinese-language dialogue was translated into English for computational analysis. Sentiment polarity was analysed using VADER, while eight emotion categories based on Plutchik’s model were identified using a pretrained DistilBERT-Plutchik model. The results were organised according to four representational categories and exported as spreadsheet files. Manual checks were conducted to verify the accuracy and contextual relevance of the results.