Zhou stayed to teach after graduating from the SHCM in 1981. She has cultivated many pipa talents, who have won awards home and abroad.
She has published “String-playing Girl”, “Zhou Lijuan Pipa Solo” and other albums. Meanwhile, “Children’s Pipa Class” and “Chinese Pipa Classics Playing Instruction” by Shanghai Music Publishing House and “Pipa Skills Training” and “Pipa Proficiency Test Pieces” by Shanghai Conservatory of Music Press are also her works. In 2012 she published her essay on the national core publication Chinese Music. In 2014 she recorded pipa solos named “A Broad Mind like the Sea” for the “Shanghai Intangible Cultural Heritage--Pudong’s Voice Series”.
