Gender and sexuality are of core concern to contemporary society and scholarship. The case of modern China represents an important and unique case. This course is designed to explain how gender and sexuality evolved in modern China during the 19th and 20th centuries. The course aims at providing a global background on how gender and sexual relations used to serve socio-economic as well as other purposes before modern values carried these institutions for personal gratifications. At the end of the module, students are expected to be able to comprehend the politico-economic as well as the socio-cultural implications of gender and sexuality at both the macro- and micro-levels. As a module designed for the master level, the lectures and discussions also aim at helping students to develop a sensible understanding of related issues of intellectual and personal importance.