This course combines literary text with film to explore the modern Chinese creative culture. It covers classic works in the history of modern Chinese literature, including short stories, novellas and novels, as well as films adapted from them. Focusing on modern Chinese creative culture, we will study basic knowledge of literary background, introduction to well-known writers and their representative works, text analysis and literary criticism of literary works, appreciation and criticism of adapted films, etc. Through the course, students are expected to have a general understanding of modern Chinese literary creation and the Chinese society and culture reflected by it.