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Shi Tiesheng

  • Name: Shi Tiesheng
  • Birthday: 1951-01-04
  • Also known as: Tiesheng Shi,史铁生
  • Place of birth: Beijing, China
  • Popularity: 0.015
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.