Xiangsheng Shi

Having endured the upheavals of the Cultural Revolution, Shi Xiangsheng was dispatched to Xinjiang province where he labored as a peasant before transitioning to teaching and eventually establishing himself as a writer. His literary reputation rests largely on the 1997 short story “A Sun in the Sky,” which attracted the attention of director Zhang Yimou and was transformed into the acclaimed 1999… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources