Zhou Xiaoping () is a Chinese essayist and popular blogger. He is known for his support of the ruling Chinese Communist Party, and for his most well-known work, Please Do Not Fail This Era!.
Zhou Xiaoping was born and raised in Zigong, Sichuan.
After junior high school, Zhou started to publish works in 1996. "Cutlassfish Zhou" () became the nickname for his nationalist, pro-Communist, pro-Chinese government and anti-American writing.
He is a supporter of the Chinese Communist Party and has expressed nationalist, anti-American and anti-Western sentiment.
Zhou is noted for praising the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xi Jinping at the 2014 Beijing Forum on Literature and Art. Xi praised Zhou along with Hua Qianfang, another internet writer, for spreading positive energy in 2014.
On 25 March 2017, he married opera singer Wang Fang.