Male, graduated from Lingnan University in Hong Kong. Associate Professor at the School of Marxism, Shenzhen University. He has long focused on major projects related to the "Belt and Road" Initiative, political and economic issues in Southeast Asia, and surrounding diplomatic issues. He has undertaken nine projects funded by the National Social Science Fund, the Ministry of Education, and other organizations. His research achievements have won the First Prize of the 11th Shenzhen Philosophy and Social Sciences Achievement Award and the Third Prize of the 8th Guangdong Philosophy and Social Sciences Outstanding Achievement Award. He is engaged in teaching activities on topics such as the Belt and Road, China and Southeast Asia, and China-Myanmar relations.

Monographs

Zou, YZ. The Political Economy of China-Myanmar Relations. Routledge, 2023.

Selected Papers

1. Zou, YZ.  "Managing Strikes and Racial Issues in the South China Morning Post. " Labor History 63, no.  5 (2022): 669-678.

2. Zou, YZ.  "The Collaboration of Chinese and British Radicals and the Role of Hong Kong in Modern Chinese History. " ACTA HISTRIAE 30, no.  1 (2022): 141-160.

3. Yang, Y. , and YZ Zou.  "Development and National Security: Indonesia’s Natuna Island and the South China Sea Issue. " Third World Quarterly 45, no.  3 (2024): 493-512.

4. Fan, H. , and YZ Zou.  "Rethinking the Security Issue in the China-Burma Territorial Dispute. " Cold War History 23, no.  1 (2023): 45-59.

5. Zou, YZ.  "China and Indonesia's Responses to Maritime Disputes in the South China Sea: Forming a Tacit Understanding on Security. " Marine Policy 149 (2023): 105502.

6. Zou, YZ, and Lee Jones.  "China’s Response to Threats to Its Overseas Economic Interests: Softening Non-Interference and Cultivating Hegemony. " Journal of Contemporary China 29, no.  121 (2020): 92-108.

7. Zou, YZ, and Hongwei Fan.  "The Political Economy of Welfare State and the China-Burma Relationship. " Cold War History 19, no.  4 (2019): 569-585.

8. Hameiri, S. , Lee Jones, and YZ Zou.  "The Development-Insecurity Nexus in China’s Near-Abroad: Rethinking Cross-Border Economic Integration in an Era of State Transformation. " Journal of Contemporary Asia 49, no.  3 (2019): 473-499.

9. Fan, H. , and YZ Zou.  "Burma-China Early Approach and Implications for Contemporary Bilateral Relations. " Asian Perspective 43, no.  3 (2019): 459-480.

10. Zou, YZ.  "English Newspapers in British Colonial Hong Kong: The Case of the South China Morning Post (1903-1941). " In R.  Teer-Tomaselli and D. P.  McCracken, eds. , Media and the Empire.  Routledge, 2018.

11. Zou, YZ.  "English Newspaper and WWII: The War Reporting of The South China Morning Post in British Colonial Hong Kong. " Acta Histriae 26, no.  1 (2018).

12. Jones, L. , and YZ Zou.  "Rethinking the Role of State-Owned Enterprises in China’s Rise. " New Political Economy 22, no.  6 (2017): 743-760.

13. Zou, YZ.  "Flying Tigers and Chinese Sidekicks in WWII American Comic Books. " In G.  Trischa and J.  Kimble (eds), The Ten Cent War.  University Press of Mississippi, 2016.

14. Zou, YZ.  "The South China Morning Post and WWI Reporting in British Colonial Hong Kong. " In L.  Z.  Karvalics (eds), Information History of The First World War.  L’ Harmattan Publishing, 2015.

15. Zou, YZ.  "English Newspaper and Sport: The South China Morning Post's Lawn Bowls Reporting in British Colonial Hong Kong. " The International Journal of the History of Sport 30, no.  3 (2013): 285-296.

16. Zou, YZ.  "The British Empire Exhibition at Wembley and British Imperial Identity in The South China Morning Post. " In J.  Matthews (ed. ), Islands and Britishness: A Global Perspective.  Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011.