Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Zhou Xun is a Chinese actress and singer. She is regarded as one of the "Four Young Dan actresses" in China ( ) in the early 2000s, along with Zhang Ziyi, Xu Jinglei and Zhao Wei.Zhou Xun was born to a middle-class family. Her father, Zhou Tianning ( ), was a local film projectionist and her mother, Chen Yiqin ( ), a salesperson at a department store.Zhou Xun later enrolled at the Zhejiang Arts Institute ( ), a decision to which her parents initially objected as they wanted her to graduate from a university. Nonetheless, Zhou Xun fought to further her interest in the dramatic arts and was accepted.