Zhou Xian

Zhou Xian, born in 1954, is a Chinese scholar who has long worked in aesthetics, literary theory, and cultural studies. His research covers aesthetic theory, cultural modernity, and visual culture, and has had considerable influence in these fields. The library holds four of his works, including What Is Aesthetics, The Turn of Visual Culture, and Research on Contemporary Chinese Media Culture; they are commonly classified under social sciences, culture, and sociocultural studies. These works address both general readers and specialists, discussing fundamental questions of aesthetics while attending to the turn of visual culture and changes in contemporary media culture, reflecting an approach that combines theoretical exposition with analysis of current cultural phenomena. Public information is limited, so details of his life are not elaborated here.