Zhou Zhenhe

When the National Higher Education Entrance Examination was restored after the end of the Cultural Revolution, Zhou took and excelled in the graduate examination and was admitted to the graduate school of Fudan University to study historical geography under the famous scholar, academician Tan Qixiang. In 1983, Zhou and his classmate Ge Jianxiong became the first two recipients of the doctoral degree in humanities (文科博士) in the People's Republic of China. His Ph.D. dissertation was Administrative Geography during the Western Han Dynasty.

Zhou has been a faculty member of the Institute of Historical Geography of Fudan University since 1983, and became a Distinguished Senior Professor in 2008. His main research interests are cultural and administrative geography and history of Sino-foreign cultural relations. He has also taught as a visiting professor at many universities, including the University of Göttingen (1998 and 2000), Waseda University (1999), City University of Hong Kong (2000, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2011), Erlangen University (2002), and Kansai University (2008).

Zhou was born in Xiamen, Fujian Province. From 1958 to 1963 he studied at the Department of Mining and Metallurgy of Xiamen University and then Fuzhou University. After graduation he worked for many years as an engineer at a coal mine in Hunan Province.

Zhou Zhenhe (Chinese: 周振鹤; born 1941) is a Chinese historical geographer and a distinguished senior professor at the Institute of Historical Geography of Fudan University in Shanghai. His main research interests are cultural and administrative geography and history of Sino-foreign cultural relations. He is the chief editor of the 13-volume General History of Chinese Administrative Divisions, published between 2007 and 2016.

Zhou Zhenhe is the chief editor of General History of Chinese Administrative Divisions, a 13-volume series covering the history of Chinese administrative divisions from the earliest dynasties (Shang and Zhou) to the Republic of China (1912–1949). It was published by Fudan University Press between 2007 and 2016. It is China's first comprehensive academic history of the country's administrative divisions and was one of the national key publishing projects supported by the General Administration of Press and Publication.