Cross-listed with CINE429V. Credit only granted for CHIN418V or CINE429V.

Explores the working of Chinese machines as both a local reality and a global media form: how machines - cameras, computers, robots, and more - function as technological artifacts, media practices, and social apparatuses in the Chinese-speaking world and beyond. Topics include WeChat, databases, sex cyborgs, virtual idols, pandemic tech, and AI systems. Introduces students to a wide array of films, animation, video games, digital ephemera, internet memes, and social media events from PRC China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and across the Asia Pacific.