Zhou Ning

Zhou Ning, male, born in 1961, holds a doctorate in literature and is a professor and doctoral supervisor at Xiamen University, where he focuses on drama studies and cross-cultural research. His scholarly interests span comparative studies of Chinese and foreign cultures as well as contemporary cultural phenomena, and he is the author of monographs and translations including Comparative Drama Studies and China's Image: Western Theories and Legends. Three of his works are included in the collection. Tianchao Yaoyuan (in two volumes) examines, from a cross-cultural perspective, the spread and evolution of images of China in the West; Measuring the Human Psyche: A Biography of Adler introduces general readers to the life and thought of the psychologist Alfred Adler; and Mirror China: A History of Twentieth-Century Chinese Television Criticism traces the development of television criticism in twentieth-century China. These works show that the author can handle specialized academic topics while also attending to readability and the popularization of knowledge.