The Institute of Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature and Culture of Zhejiang University was established in 1999. It is a national-level teaching team and the leading unit of“Double First-Class” courses designated by the Ministry of Education.It is a provincial key discipline with the authority to confer doctoral degrees.

Under the leadership of several generations of scholars such as Zhang Zhongfu, Lv Moye, Zheng Zekui, Chen Jian, and Zhang Songnan, the discipline has established a research framework focused on modern writers from Zhejiang supplemented by the study of novels, poetry and film and television.

In the past decade, building on its existing foundation, the institute has seen new developments and has formed four distinct research directions: the history and materials research of modern and contemporary Chinese literature, the research on Zhejiang culture and modern writers from Zhejiang, and the research on contemporary Chinese drama and film(including animation).