Shi Tiesheng
Personal information
- Known for
- Writing
- Known credits
- 4
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- January 4, 1951
- Died
- December 31, 2010
- Place of birth
- Beijing, China
- Also known as
- Tiesheng Shi史铁生
Biography
Shi Tiesheng was a prolific and celebrated Chinese author, best known for his story Life of a String which was the basis of the Chen Kaige film of the same name. He was paralyzed in an accident at the age of 21, during his work as a sent-down youth. He developed uremia in 1998 and required dialysis until he died in 2010 of cerebral hemorrhage.
