Zhou Anhua was born in December 1957 in Yancheng, Jiangsu. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Chinese Language and Literature from Xinjiang University in 1982, and his Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Chinese Language and Literature from Nanjing University in 1987 and 1989, respectively. He became a professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Nanjing University in March 2000, and a professor and Ph.D. supervisor in the specialty of Drama and Theatre Studies (Film and Television Art, Drama Studies) at Nanjing University in March 2001.