Please visit modernchinesepoetry.com for sample poems. Ren Xianqing was born in 1943 in Shandong Province. He graduated from Qufu Normal University (Shandong Province) in 1966, majoring in Chinese Language and Literature. He then worked as a teacher and a school administrator for more than 30 years until retirement. He still lives in Shandong Province. Mr. Ren has published three collections of poems in China: The Heart with No Boundaries, The Heart-Shaped Leaves, and Let the Flowers Speak for Me. Several poems in this collection were written after the publication of the three books above. This book is a special issue of the journal of 21st Century Chinese Poetry. All poems are selected by Meifu Wang and translated by the editor-and-translator team of 21st Century Chinese Poetry.