Shi Tiesheng(Chinese:Sử thiết sinh;January 4, 1951 – December 31, 2010) was a Chinese novelist, known for his story which was the basis of the filmLife on a String.TheChina Dailystated regarding his essay about the park near where he lived, "Many critics have consideredI and the Temple of Earth(zh: Ta cùng mà đàn) as one of the best Chinese prose essays of the 20th century. "[1]
Shi Tiesheng | |
|---|---|
| Native name | Sử thiết sinh |
| Born | January 4, 1951 Beijing,China |
| Died | December 31, 2010(aged 59) Beijing,China |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Period | 1979–2010 |
Shi was born inBeijing,and graduated fromTsinghua University High School. In 1969 he was a "sent-down youth"or urban youth sent to a rural area ofShaanxias part of theDown to the Countryside Movementof theCultural Revolution.There he was paralyzed in an accident at the age of 21, and was sent back to Beijing.[2]
Shi was published for the first time in 1979. His 1983 short story "My Faraway Clear Peace River" ( ta xa xôi thanh bình loan ) 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.[3]A sequel, "A Story of Rustication" ( "Chadui de gushi" ) was published in 1986.[2]
In 1980 directorTian Zhuangzhuangbased a short film calledOur Corneron a story by Shi; it was the first film by a filmmaker ofChina's Fifth Generation Cinema.[4]
Shi's 1985 novella "Like a Banjo String" ( mệnh nếu cầm huyền ) about a pair of blind musicians, was the basis of the 1991 filmLife on a Stringdirected byChen Kaige.[2]
His collections of short stories includeMy Faraway Clear Peace River(Wo de yaoyuan de qingping wan) (1985) andSunday(Libairi) (1988).[2]
A collection of English-language translations of his short stories was published in 1991 asStrings of Life.[5]
In 1996, his novelNotes on Principles( nghiên cứu bút ký ) was published. In selecting it as a notable work of Chinese literature since 1949 which could qualify as an overlooked classic, Professor Shelley W. Chan ofWittenberg UniversitysaidNotes on Principleswas comparable to yet more profound thanSoul MountainbyNobel Prize-winnerGao Xing gian.[6]
In 1998, his kidneys began to fail and he subsequently requireddialysisthree times weekly.[7]
He received theLao SheLiterature Prize forFragments Written at the Hiatuses of Sickness( bệnh khích toái bút )(2002).[1][5]
In 2006, he publishedMy Sojourn in Ding Yi( ta đinh một chi lữ ), about an immortal spirit that inhabits the bodies of a succession of people, includingAdam,Shi Tiesheng himself, and the book's hero, Ding Yi.[7]An English translation of this novel was published by Sinoist Books in 2019.[8]
On the morning of December 31, 2010, Shi died ofcerebral hemorrhage.[9]
References
edit- ^ab"Taking Tortured Soul's Path",China Daily,2003-03-17,retrieved2010-04-27
- ^abcdLeung, Laifong (1994),"Shi Tiesheng: Wheelchair Humanist",Morning sun: interviews with Chinese writers of the lost generation,M.E. Sharpe, p. 153,ISBN978-1-56324-130-7
- ^Cao, Zuoya (2003),Out of the crucible: literary works about the rusticated youth,Le xing ton Books, p. 72,ISBN978-0-7391-0506-1
- ^Berry, Michael (2005),"Tian Zhuangzhuang: Stealing Horses and Flying Kites",Speaking in Images: Interviews With Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers,Columbia University Press, p. 58,ISBN978-0-231-13330-2
- ^abLeenhouts, Mark."Shi Tiesheng - China"(PDF).Shwob.Retrieved2010-04-27.
- ^Basu, Chitralekha (2010-04-23),"Quest for nation's unsung literary gems",China Daily,retrieved2010-04-27
- ^ab"Writer Overcomes His Condition to Produce Exceptional New Novel",China Daily,2006-01-06,retrieved2010-04-27
- ^Shi, Tiesheng (2019).My Travels in Ding Yi.London: Sinoist Books.ISBN978-1-910760-39-0.OCLC1099276015.
- ^"Renowned writer Shi Tiesheng passes away".China.org.cn. 2010-12-31.Retrieved2010-12-31.
External links
edit- Shi Tiesheng books in WorldCat
- English translation ofThe Temple of Earth and Iin Turnrow, the Bi-annual Journal of the University of Louisiana at Monroe
- Shi Tiesheng at Paper Republic