Career
Zhou gained a degree in Mathematics from Fudan University. He acquired the French language and became interested in French literature while studying at École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He became a full-time literary editor in the 1980s, and has since then translated several French novels, including Les trois mousquetaires, Madame Bovary, and Louisiana Voie royale.
He is currently making a new translation of Marcel Proust"s À la recherche du temps perdu.
The first volume, Du côté de chez Swann, was published in 2004. He has also rendered Aventures mathématiques by Miguel de Guzmán into Chinese.
