About the author
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.
Written (4)
Rating 4.3★ The Distant Celestial Empire (Two Volumes) Zhou Ning Peking University Press · 2025 This book studies the Western image of China in the sense of general social imagination. Spanning more than seven centuries of the history of the imag… Rating 3.9★ Measuring the Human Mind: A Biography of Adler 亚历山大·克鲁伊 / 阿迪拉木·艾合麦提 / Zhou Ning Tianjin People's Publishing House · 2024 Inferiority and transcendence, the creative self, style of life, social interest... The individual psychology founded by Adler has helped countless pe… Rating 3.6★ Mirroring China: A History of Twentieth-Century Chinese Television Criticism Zhou Ning Communication University of China Press · 2023 This book examines, from a historical perspective, the early footsteps of Chinese television criticism in the twentieth century. It argues that the in… New Europe, Old Europe: A Chinese Scholar's Humanistic Journey Through Europe (China Stories) Zhou Ning CITIC Press · 2013 This book is a collection of European travel essays by Zhou Ning, professor at Xiamen University's School of Humanities, published in CITIC Press's 20…Publishers
CITIC PressCommunication University of China PressPeking University PressTianjin People's Publishing House