About the author
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.
Written (4)
Rating 4.3★ What Is Aesthetics (What Is Humanities and Social Sciences) Zhou Xian Peking University Press · 2025 The true essence of aesthetic activity: aesthetic activity and aesthetics as its theoretical form embody an ideal of equal dialogue. Aesthetics is not… Rating 4.1★ The Turn to Visual Culture (Literary Theory and Cultural Studies Series) Zhou Xian Peking University Press · 2025 Visual culture is a new question that has emerged in a period of social and cultural transformation in contemporary society. The areas it involves, su… Rating 3.9★ Studies on Contemporary Chinese Media Culture Zhou Xian / 刘康 Peking University Press · 2025 This book examines the landscape of contemporary Chinese media culture through specific case studies, probing beneath its surface to consider how that… Rating 3.8★ What Is Aesthetics Zhou Xian Peking University Press · 2025 The true essence of aesthetic activity—aesthetic activity and aesthetics as its theoretical form—contains an ideal of equal dialogue. Aesthetics is no…Publishers
Peking University Press