ABSTRACT
A native of Minhou County, Fujian, Zheng Min graduated from the Philosophy Department of the Southwest Joint University in wartime Kumming in 1943. That same year she went abroad to study at Brown University in the United States. She later transferred to Illinois State University where she received her MA degree in 1952. Like her contemporary Chen Jingrong, she was a member of the Nine Leaves group of poets, who had made a significant contribution to the development of the new vernacular poetry in the forties She was a professor of English at Beijing Teachers' College before her recent retirement. Zheng has published several books of poetry, which include: Collected Poems 1942-1947, Seeking, Illusions, and I Pick in Rain (1990) as well as one volume of critical essays, A Study of British and American Poetry and Plays. Zheng is an accomplished, versatile poet whose poems often reflect her interest in philosophy as well as her love for the arts.
