Biography of PETER X. ZHOU

PETER X. ZHOU 周欣平 is the Director of the C. V. Starr East Asian Library and Assistant University Librarian at the University of California, Berkeley. A leading expert in the field of East Asian librarianship, Dr. Zhou has written and spoken widely on scholarly communication, global information service, East Asian librarianship, Chinese historical texts, and linguistics. He has been a consultant for major universities and foundations in the United States and Asia on collection building and information infrastructure in regard to the study of Asia.

Born in Wuhan, China, Dr. Zhou holds a PhD in Linguistics and an MS in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a master