Zhou Gengsheng, also known as Zhou Lan, was a Han nationality born in Changsha, Hunan Province (1889-1971). He was born into a poor teacher's family on March 6, 1889. In the thirty-second year of Guangxu (1906), he went to Waseda University in Japan to study and joined the China League. After returning to China before the Revolution of 1911, he participated in the founding of the Republic of China Daily in Hankou to promote the democratic revolution. In 1912, he founded the Hankou Republic of China Daily with Pi Zongshi, Yang Duanliu, Ren Kainan and others. In 1913, he founded the "Republic of China Daily" in Hankou with his friend Yang Duanliu and others, and served as an editor. He criticized the arbitrariness of warlords and opposed Yuan Shikai's dictatorship. As a result, the newspaper office was closed down and the editors were wanted. He sneaked to Shanghai and changed his name to Zhou Gensheng. With the assistance of Huang Xing. In July of the same year, he went to the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom to continue his studies and received a master's degree in political science and a gold medal. Later, he went to the University of Paris in France to further study and received a doctorate in law. He participated in the patriotic activities of China workers and students in Paris to prevent China representatives from signing the Treaty of Versailles. Academician of the Academia Sinica, consultant to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, well-known jurist, and one of the four advisers in the drafting of China's first constitution. Zhou Gengsheng passed away in Beijing on April 20, 1971. On November 29, 2005, the statue of Zhou Gensheng was completed in the New Law School Building of Wuhan University.

Zhou Gengsheng has devoted his life to the study of international law. His main works include "Outline of International Law","Issues in Modern International Law","New Trends in International Law","Introduction to International Law","History of Modern European Diplomacy","A Brief History of Modern International Politics","Winning the Peace in the Pacific","Ideological Trends in Modern Anglo-American International Law","International Law" and the English version of "WINNING THE PEACE IN THE PACIFIC". His book "International Law" contains 600,000 words and lists the five basic principles of mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, mutual non-aggression, non-interference in each other's internal affairs, equality and mutual benefit, and peaceful coexistence as the basic principles of international law, making traditional international law The qualitative changes have played an important role in safeguarding the sovereignty and territorial integrity of countries in the world and maintaining international peace and security. It can be said to be the most systematic and authoritative work on international law in our country's modern times. Zhou Gensheng believes that sovereignty is the highest power a country has to independently handle its own internal and external affairs.