Research on modern Chinese culture can be found across various disciplines including literature, media studies, sociology, gender study and political science. This graduate seminar draws on this interdisciplinary body of scholarship and aims to expose students to new developments, themes, and approaches in modern Chinese cultural studies, as well as engage with contemporary cultural theories and explore untapped historical sources. Among the linked topics are gender and sexuality, modernism, digital culture, ecocriticism, youth culture, and biopolitics. Students will interrogate limitations and contradictions within the field, all the while exploring new possibilities and directions within modern Chinese cultural studies.