Zheng Min is a Chinese

China

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 scholar and poet

Poet

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. She studied philosophy in China and has published modernist poetry since her student days in the early 1940s. In the 1940s, she traveled to the United States

United States

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, gaining an MA in literature from Brown University

Brown University

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, and returned to China in 1955. Together with eight other poets, she is thought of as one of the 'Nine Leaves' school of poetry; her work is included in The Nine Leaves (1980). Zheng lectures at Beijing Normal University

Beijing Normal University

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