Zhou Xiaohong

Zhou Xiaohong studied medical science at Nanjing Medical University between 1977 and 1980 and changed his major to philosophy and then acquired a BA in Philosophy in 1982. After graduation from college, he taught for two years at the Party School of the CPC Suzhou Municipal Committee. In 1984, he returned to university and studied for an MA in Social Psychology at Nankai University, under the prestigious Chinese sociologist and anthropologist Fei Xiaotong.

In July 1987, he started to teach at Nanjing University. He served as a lecturer at the Philosophy Department for a year and then turned to the newly founded Sociology Department. He stayed on at Nanjing University to complete his Ph.D. on the social history of modern China between 1993 and 1997. In 1994, he was promoted to become the youngest Professor of Sociology at the University.

From April 1999 to May 2000, he furthered his study at Fairbank Center for Eastern Asian Research in Harvard University, under Elizabeth J. Perry, an influential scholar of Chinese politics and history. He later returned to Nanjing University and took up the post as Dean of the Sociology Department which developed into the current School of Social and Behavioral Sciences.

Zhou Xiaohong is President of the Chinese Association of Social Psychology and Vice President of the Chinese Association of Sociology. In addition to this, he is a member of the State Council’s Appraisal Committee of Sociology, Vice Chairman of the Steering Committee of Sociology Education, Ministry of Education, P.R.C. and a member of the Course Planning and Review Group at the National Social Sciences Foundation. He is now honored as a distinguished professor of the Cheung Kong Scholars Program supported by the Ministry of Education, P.R.C.