Faculty & Staff

2017-21, Doctor of Philosophy (trained in educational studies and Sinology), University of Groningen, Netherlands

2014-17, Master in Education, Southwest University, China

2009-13, Bachelor in Economics, Anhui Normal University, China

2019 (6 months), Visiting PhD-student at Institute of Education, Xiamen University, China

2015-16 (7 months), Visiting scholar at Faculty of Education, Michigan State University, United States

Early Career Researcher Representative of the History of Education Society UK (2023-)

Member of editorial assistant board of Paedagogica Historica (2021-)

Organiser of ISCHE 2025 Symposium – Teacher Educators and the Circulation of “Newness” in 20th-Century East Asian Education

Guest lecturer at Göttingen University in 2025 (Course: Transnational History of Education in Modern China)

Guest lecturer at The Education University of Hong Kong (Event: Global Histories of Education Dialogue)

Participant at the Academic Forum of Young Scholars organised by the History of Education Society China (2021 & 2025)

Participant at the History of Educational Doctoral Summer School in Latvia (2018)

Reviewer for Paedagogica Historica, Oxford University Press, Bentham Science Publisher, European Journal of Education, Historical Studies in Education / Revue d'histoire de l'éducation, China Higher Education Review

2023. The Development of Educational Psychology and the Sinification of Academic Disciplines in Republican China. Humanities and Social Sciences Fund Project of the Ministry of Education, 80,000 RMB (PI)

2023. Dewey in China: Pragmatism and the Development of New Education in Modern China. Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, 100,000 RMB (PI)

2022. The Worship of “Newness” and the History of New Education in Modern China. Fujian Provincial Federation of Social Sciences, 30, 000 RMB (PI)

2016. The World Federation of Education Associations and the Development of Chinese Education, 1923-1937. Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, 10,000 RMB (PI)

Zhou, Ying (2024). Education and Democracy in China: To Confine the Surging Tide from the Outside World, 1901-1937 (Monograph). Leiden: Brill.

Zhou, Ying (2021). Education and Politics in China: Civic Education in Times of Reform, 1901-1937. Diss. University of Groningen. (Examining Committee: Prof. Peter Zarrow, Prof. Johannes Westberg and Prof. Greetje. van der Werf)

Zhou, Ying (2025). Selected Works of Educationalists in Fujian (Edited Volume in Chinese). Fuzhou: Fujian Education Press, 117-135.

Zhou, Ying (2025). Review of Educationalists in Fujian (Edited Volume in Chinese). Fuzhou: Fujian Education Press (forthcoming).

Zhou, Ying and Guo Jin. “‘Top-down Policy, Bottom-up Countermeasures’: Game-playing Between Chinese Private Universities and the Party-State, 1927-1937”. Historical Research (forthcoming).

Zhou, Ying (2025). The Evolving Ethics: Moral Education in an Era Worshipping “Newness” (in Chinese). Peking University Education Review, 23 (1): 45-67.

Zhou, Ying and Piet van der Ploeg (2025). The Dalton Plan in Modern China: Rising in Spirit yet Failing to Become a System. Paedagogica Historica, 61 (4): 552-569.

Li, Zhihang, Ying Zhou, and Qinzheng Gong (2024). The Adaptation of Kandel’s Ideas in Chinese Comparative Education. Asia Pacific Education Review. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12564-024-09992-z

Zhou, Ying and Johannes Westberg (2024). A Fragmentation of Dewey: Dewey in the Political and Educational Reforms of China, 1910s-1920s. Comparative Education, 60 (4): 609-625.

Zhou, Ying (2021). Was Educational Reform in China’s New Policies “Genuine Reform”? The Critical Role of Political Ideology, 1901-1904. Paedagogica Historica, 57 (3): 314-331.

Xie, Changfa and Zhou Ying (2020). The Dalton Plan in China: The Chronicle of Helen Parkhurst’s Activities in China in 1925 (in Chinese). Journal of East China Normal University (Educational Sciences Edition), (12): 130-138.

Xie, Changfa and Zhou Ying (2016). Parkhurst’s Chinese Journey and the Dalton Plan in the 1920s (in Chinese). Journal of Northeast Normal University (Philosophy and Social Science), (6):230-234.