Zheng Min, the poet of the "Nine Leaves School", died at the age of 102

According to the School of Foreign Chinese Literature of Beijing Normal University, Mr. Zheng Min, a famous Chinese poet, poetry critic and scholar and professor of the School of Foreign Chinese Literature of Beijing Normal University, died of illness at 7 o'clock in Beijing on January 3, 2022 at the age of 102.

Zheng Min, born on July 18, 1920, is a native of Minhou, Fujian. In 1939, he was admitted to Southwest Union University, where he studied philosophy and graduated in 1943. During his studies at southwest United University, he began to write poetry, and began to publish poetry works in 1943, which was highly affirmed by the poetry critics at that time. In April 1949, she published her first collection of poems, Collected Poems 1942-1947, published by the Cultural Life Publishing House in Shanghai, which established her important position in the history of new Chinese poetry. In 1948, he went to Brown University in the United States and received a master's degree in English literature. In 1955, he returned to his homeland and worked at the Institute of Literature of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (formerly known as the Chinese Academy of Sciences) to engage in The Study of English Literature. In 1960, he was transferred to the Department of Foreign Languages of Beijing Normal University to teach.

Mr. Zheng Min has devoted his life to the creation of new Chinese poetry, the study of Chinese and Western poetry, the study of contemporary Western philosophical thought, poetry translation and education and teaching. From the 1940s to the 21st century, her creations have gone through 80 years of ups and downs, and her creative vitality has been enduring. After the reform and opening up in 1979, Mr. Zheng Min's poetry creation has a new brilliance of life, and he has published poetry works such as "Seeking Collection" (1986, which won the Third National Outstanding New Poetry Award of the Chinese Writers Association), "Heart Image" (1991), "Morning I Pick Flowers in the Rain" (1991), "Zheng Min's Poetry Collection (1979-1999)" (2000), and translated and published "Selected Contemporary American Poetry" (1987). Mr. Zheng Min has written a large number of poetry works in his lifetime, especially since the new era of reform and opening up, as an important poet of the "Nine Leaf School", her works have had a broad and far-reaching impact on the development of new Chinese poetry. In 2006, Zheng Min won the "Poet of the Year Award" from the CCTV New Year Poetry Conference, and in 2017, he won the Poetry Creation Award of the 6th Zhongkun International Poetry Award.

Mr. Zheng Min has conducted extensive and in-depth explorations in Chinese and Western poetry criticism, poetry aesthetic thought, deconstructivist philosophical thought, Chinese language, culture, etc., with outstanding results and far-reaching influence. Her publications include Studies in Anglo-American Poetry and Drama (1983), Structure-Deconstruction Perspective: Language, Culture, and Criticism (1998), Poetry and Philosophy as Neighbors: Structure-Deconstructed Poetics (1999), and Thinking, Culture, and Poetics (2004). In 2012, the six-volume Zheng Min Anthology was published.

Mr. Zheng Min's poetry pursues a high degree of unity between sensibility and rationality, "poetry" and "thought", integrating her concern for human nature and her perception of life into poetic philosophical thinking, and her poems are closely related to the vicissitudes of the times and the fate of Chinese intellectuals. In terms of the aesthetics of poetry creation, her poems focus on the exploration of the heart, showing the confession of the soul, dialectical thinking, beautiful and complex imagery, which has brought major breakthroughs to contemporary poetry. Her exploration of contemporary Western philosophical thought, her reflections on new poetry and The Chinese language, her concern for the fate of mankind, and her concern for issues such as science and humanistic education all show the courage, responsibility and noble sentiment of a Chinese poet and intellectual in seeking truth.

Mr. Zheng Min taught a number of basic English courses in the Department of Foreign Languages of Beijing Normal University (later renamed the School of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the Chinese). In 1981, she began to recruit master's degree students, teaching Shakespeare's plays, British metaphysical poetry, Romantic poetry, British and American modern and contemporary poetry, Chinese modern and contemporary poetry, deconstructivist literary theory and other courses. In 1986, due to Mr. Zheng Min's academic achievements and extensive influence, the Department of Foreign Languages of Beijing Normal University was approved as the first doctoral degree in english discipline of domestic teachers' colleges and universities. In that year, she began to recruit doctoral students, and her research direction was mainly Western dissertation and deconstructivist philosophical thought. During his teaching, Mr. Zheng Min has trained a number of master's and doctoral students, and has worked hard for the teaching and talent training of Beijing Normal University.