Dr. Zhou is a Professor of Sociology and Dean of School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Nanjing University, China. After completing his undergraduate and graduate program at Nanjing Medicine College and Nankai University, he has worked for Nanjing University after 1987. 1997, he got his Ph.D. degree from Department of History, Nanjing University. He had an opportunity to stay at Fairbank Center for Eastern Asian Research, Harvard University as visiting scholar from 1999-2000. His major area of research is sociological theory, social psychology and modern china studies. He has published over twenty books and over 80 academic papers, and he is chief editor of Journal of China Studies (Beijing).
