 Zhou caused controversy in 2015 by a Weibo post which said that women were beautiful when cleaning the house or feeding babies, which led to him being accused of having straight man cancer.1988 Assistant researcher in the Institute of Philosophy of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

1994 Researcher in the Institute of Philosophy of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

2009 Professor of Southwest University of Political Science & Law

2007 Advisor of National Central Library

2013 Honorary Director of Hubei Provincial Library

Zhou was among the first group of scholars who began to study Friedrich Nietzsche after Chinese economic reform.He was first known for his dissertation "Nietzsche