This module explores how gender has been represented and constructed in Chinese literature from the 20th century onwards. In this period, as the region experienced extraordinary sociopolitical upheaval, ideas about gender and sexuality also underwent a series of transformations. In this module, we consider how these transformations were reflected, endorsed or critiqued through literary texts. In discussing key texts from this period, we will cover topics such as: literary discussions of masculinity, femininity and queerness; the connection between socialism and gender ideologies; the connection between capitalism and gender ideologies; gender and nation-building; race and gender; and the link between gender, postcolonialism and ideas of the 'Sinophone'. Following a broadly chronological course through the long 20th century, this course gives students an overview of how gender relates to the major historical events of the period as well as contemporary Chinese and Sinophone societies.