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Modern China Through Film

Course Number: CNMS 160
Title: Modern China Through Film
Day & Time 1: MW 02:30PM 03:45PM
Instructor I: Wang Z
Credit: 1.00
Course Description: This course examines how films produced across the Chinese-speaking world—including mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and immigrant communities—depict diverse Chinese-speaking identities while addressing themes such as cultural heritage, societal change, nationalism, migration, gender dynamics, family structures, class straggles, and generational conflict. The course offers a broad understanding of cinema from the Chinese-speaking world, film theory, cultural studies, and relevant Hollywood films. All films have English subtitles. Requirements include film viewings, presentations, quizzes, class discussions, and a final paper.

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