Zhou Xian is a professor in the School of Artsat Nanjing University, who is distinguished as a Changjiang Scholar of the Ministry of Education. His main research fields are aesthetics, literary theory, cultural studies and theory of art history. He has publishedmany monographs, such asCritique of Aesthetic Modernity(2005),The Turn of Visual Culture(2008),From Literary Research to Cultural Discipline(2015), etc.