RESEARCH

Research interest: Comparative, international, intercultural, and interdisciplinary studies of higher education

Research topics: internationalisation, sustainable entrepreneurship, educational innovation and key competence development

TEACHING

Postgraduate courses: Comparative & International Education; Instructional Design

Undergraduate courses: History and Culture of the University; Chinese Education Heritage; Western Education Heritage; Curriculum & Pedagogy

AWARD

National Award in Undergraduate Courseware of Excellence 2020 (hybrid course), Ministry of Education, China

National Award in Online and Open Courseware of Excellence 2018, Ministry of Education, China

Teaching Innovation Award in 2022 and 2019, Beijing Municipal Education Commission

Teaching Innovation Award in 2022, 2018, and 2014, Tsinghua University

Teacher Award 2021 in International Collaboration & Exchange, Tsinghua University

Teacher Award 2020 in combating against the COVID-19, Tsinghua University

Teacher Award 2019, Tsinghua University

ACADEMIC & PROFESSIONALSERVICE

Secretary, Research Society of University Culture, China Association of Higher Education (since 2019)

Fellow, the Chinese Comparative Education Society, China Association of Education (since 2019)

Editorial team member, Journal of International and Comparative Education (since 2020)

Editorial team member, Higher Education Quarterly (since 2022)

Regular external reviewer: China Development (an academic journal in Chinese) (since 2022)

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS (2018-2022)

Books (Edited books and Co-author books)

Chao Zhang, Zhou Zhong, and Sunyu Wang (2021). Research on entrepreneurship education in entrepreneurial universities. Beijing: China Social Sciences Academic Press (in Chinese).

Zhou Zhong, Hamish Coates & Jinghuan Shi (eds). (2019) Asian Higher Education Outlook 2019: Education Innovation, London: Routledge.

Zhou Zhong, Jinghuan Shi, and Kevin, M. McConkey (2018). Asian Higher Education Outlook 2018: Creation and Direction of the Asian Universities Alliance, Beijing: Tsinghua University Press.

Book chapters

Zhou Zhong, Fei Yan, Chao Zhang, and Jizhen Li (2022 forthcoming). The Rise of Tsinghua University as an Entrepreneurial University: Organizational and Educational Development, in Educating Entrepreneurs and Financing Innovation in Asia, edited by Fei Yan, Yong Suk Lee, Lin William Cong, Charles Eesley, and Charles Lee (Eds.). Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press.

Lan Xue, Zhen Yu, and Zhou Zhong (2022 forthcoming). Elite Universities in China, in The Oxford Handbook on Higher Education in Asia, edited by Devesh Kapur, Lily Kong & David M. Malone. Oxford: University of Oxford Press.

Zhou Zhong and Xinjie Yu (2022). Faculty teaching experience, in A Turning Point for Chinese Higher Education: Developing Hybrid Education at Tsinghua University (Asian Higher Education Outlook), edited by Hamish Coates, Yu Zhang, Manli Li, and Zhou Zhong. London: Routledge.

Zhou Zhong and Jingya Wang (2019). Innovations in Promoting Business Chinese Language in the UK: The Case of the LSE Confucius Institute for Business London", in Donald Lien (ed.) Confucius Institute and Local Chinese Programs, Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Learning Research.

Journal papers in English

Zhou Zhong et al (2022 forthcoming). Making University and Curricular Sustainable Entrepreneurship: A Case Study of Tsinghua University, Asia Pacific Education Review.

Zhou Zhong (2021). Opening-up as entrepreneurial internationalisation in Chinese higher education, International Journal of Comparative Education and Development, 23(3): 175-192. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCED-04-2021-0035

Fei Yan, Zhou Zhong, Haoning Wang, and Qiao Wen (2021). Grafting identity: History textbook reform and identity‐building in contemporary China, Journal of Educational Change (2021) 22:175-190. Doi.org/10.1007/s10833-019-09365-z.

Colin Brock and Zhou Zhong (2021). The Many Contexts of the Social Responsibilities of Universities, Journal of International and Comparative Education, 10(2): 133-141.

Zhou Zhong (2020). A review of Dr Colin Brock’s Geography of Education: Scale, Space and Location in the Study of Education, Journal of International and Comparative Education, 9(2): 119-121.

Yawen Li, Zhou Zhong, Jiancheng Guan, Jinyi Zhou & Jizhen Li (2020). Firm size affecting efficiency of production and commercialization of knowledge: embedded in cluster development, Asian Journal of Technology Innovation. DOI: 10.1080/19761597.2020.1713831

Gwil Croucher, Zhou Zhong, Kenneth Moore, Jon Chew, Hamish Coates (2019). Higher education student finance between China and Australia: Towards an international political economy analysis, Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 41(6). DOI: 10.1080/1360080X.2019.1627066

Zhou Zhong, Lu Liu, Hamish Coates & George Kuh (2019). What the U.S. (and Rest of the World) Should Know About Higher Education in China, Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 51:3, 8-20, DOI: 10.1080/00091383.2019.1606571

Saiquan Hu, Zhou Zhong, Jin Zhang and Xiaoying Zheng (2018) Cognitive Flexibility and Advice Network Centrality: The Moderating Role of Self-Monitoring, Frontiers in Psychology, 9:1947. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.0194

Journal papers in Chinese

Qian Xiao, Zhou Zhong, and Xinyun Xu (2022). Capacity Building in International Communication for University-Affiliated Think Tanks in the New Time: Innovative Practices and Reflection of Tsinghua University, China Higher Education Research, 7: 8-14. DOI:10.16298/j.cnki.1004-3667.2022.07.03

Xiaoyi Sun, Peiyue Fu, Zhou Zhong, Yan Li, and Yan Wang (2022). Innovation in Student-centred University Admission – the Experience of APEC Economies, Journal of World Education, 2022,35(4):49-55.

Xiaoyi Sun, Peiyue Fu, Zhou Zhong, Yan Li, and Yan Wang (2022). Process, Policy, and Strategy: Review of APEC Symposium on University Admission, Journal of World Education, 2022,35(3):9-14.

Chao Zhang, Zhou Zhong, and Sunyu Wang (2021). Research on the Development Mechanism of Entrepreneurial Universities from the Perspective of Ecology, Tsinghua Journal of Education, 42(4): 70-77.

Jie Fu, Zhou Zhong, and Weifeng Qiao (2021). International Competitiveness of Chinese Engineering Education. Chinese University Science & Techonology, 2021 (12): 56-61.

Yulu Hou, Ruyi Li, Yue Cao, and Zhou Zhong (2021). Promoting Wilderness Education in China: Supporting Educational Innovation and Ecological Protection, Environmental Protection, 49 (21): 41-47. DOI:10.14026/j.cnki.0253-9705.2021.21.008

Yawen Li, Zhou Zhong, Jiancheng Guan, and Jizhen Li (2020). Firm size affecting efficiency of production and commercialization of knowledge: embedded in cluster development, Asian Journal of Technology Innovation 28(2):1-25. DOI:10.1080/19761597.2020.1713831

Lu Liu, Zhou Zhong, and Hamish Coates (2019). Challenges and Strategies for Global Talent Governance in Chinese Universities under the Background of “Double First-Class” Construction, China Higher Education Research, 9: 42-47. DOI:10.16298/j.cnki.1004-3667.2019.09.08

Linli Dai and Zhou Zhong (2019). On Mutual Interest Embedding between American Federal Government and Higher Education Accreditation Agencies, Tsinghua Education Forum, 40(1):97-102.

Zhao Zhang, Zhou Zhong, and Jizhen Li (2018). University Imprint: Education Reflections from the Perspective of Alumni Entrepreneurs, Research in Higher Education of Engineering, 2018(4).

Huan Lei, Zhou Zhong, Weifeng Qiao (2018). A Sino-US Comparative Study of Academic Discipline Development in the Research Universities and its Implications for Double First-rate Development, Tsinghua Education Forum, 39(6):66-73.

Zhou Zhong & Chuanjie Zhang (2018). Locally Rooted and Globally Engaged: An Analysis of US Education Strategy for Global Competence, Tsinghua Education Forum, 39(2).

Wen Fang, Zhou Zhong, Chuanjie, Zhang and Jianping, Xiong (2018). Global Competence for Educating National Defense Students in Civilian Universities: Experiences and Implications of Tsinghua–West Point Student Mobility Program. Heilongjiang Researches on Higher Education.