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Shi Tiesheng was born on 4 January, 1951 in Beijing, China, is a Chinese novelist. Discover Shi Tiesheng's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 59 years old?

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Occupation Writer
Age 59 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 4 January 1951
Birthday 4 January
Birthplace Beijing, China
Date of death 31 December, 2010
Died Place Beijing, China
Nationality China

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1949

In selecting it as a notable work of Chinese literature since 1949 which could qualify as an overlooked classic, Professor Shelley W. Chan of Wittenberg University said Notes on Principles was comparable to yet more profound than Soul Mountain by Nobel Prize-winner Gao Xingjian.

1951

Shi Tiesheng (January 4, 1951 – December 31, 2010) was a Chinese novelist, known for his story which was the basis of the film Life on a String.

The China Daily stated regarding his essay about the park near where he lived, "Many critics have considered I and the Temple of Earth (zh:我与地坛) as one of the best Chinese prose essays of the 20th century."

Shi was born in Beijing, and graduated from Tsinghua University High School.

1969

In 1969 he was a "sent-down youth" or urban youth sent to a rural area of Shaanxi as part of the Down to the Countryside Movement of the Cultural Revolution.

There he was paralyzed in an accident at the age of 21, and was sent back to Beijing.

1979

Shi was published for the first time in 1979.

1980

In 1980 director Tian Zhuangzhuang based a short film called Our Corner on a story by Shi; it was the first film by a filmmaker of China's Fifth Generation Cinema.

1983

His 1983 short story "My Faraway Clear Peace River" (我的遥远的清平湾) won the National Excellent Short Story Prize.

The story is about a sent-down youth and an old man of the village, and takes the view that the peasants suffer more over the long term than the urban youth sent from the city.

1985

Shi's 1985 novella "Like a Banjo String" (命若琴弦) about a pair of blind musicians, was the basis of the 1991 film Life on a String directed by Chen Kaige.

His collections of short stories include My Faraway Clear Peace River (Wo de yaoyuan de qingping wan) (1985) and Sunday (Libairi) (1988).

1986

A sequel, "A Story of Rustication" ("Chadui de gushi") was published in 1986.

1991

A collection of English-language translations of his short stories was published in 1991 as Strings of Life.

1996

In 1996, his novel Notes on Principles (务虚笔记) was published.

1998

In 1998, his kidneys began to fail and he subsequently required dialysis three times

weekly.

2002

He received the Lao She Literature Prize for Fragments Written at the Hiatuses of Sickness (病隙碎笔)(2002).

2006

In 2006, he published My Sojourn in Ding Yi (我的丁一之旅), about an immortal spirit that inhabits the bodies of a succession of people, including Adam, Shi Tiesheng himself, and the book's hero, Ding Yi.

2010

On the morning of December 31, 2010, Shi died of cerebral hemorrhage.

2019

An English translation of this novel was published by Sinoist Books in 2019.