Mr. Shi Tiesheng's contribution

Shi Tiesheng (195 1-), a Beijinger, is a famous contemporary writer and thinker in China.

Shi Tiesheng is one of the most admirable writers in contemporary China. His works are exactly the same as his life. In his Writing Night, Shi Tiesheng expressed the most sound and full thoughts with his mutilated body. He experienced the hardships of life, but expressed the clarity and joy of existence. His wise words lit up our increasingly dark hearts. As the most important achievement of China's literature in 2002, his book Breaking a Pen from a Illness, as always, pondered over such major issues as life and death, disability and love, suffering and faith, writing and art, and answered such common spiritual questions as how I was present and how I lived my meaning. When most writers gave up facing the basic situation of human beings in the era of consumerism, Shi Tiesheng lived in his own heart, still struggling to pursue the value and glory of human beings, still firmly marching into the desolate area of existence and resolutely fighting against the unknown. This courage and persistence have deeply aroused our vigilance and concern about our own situation.

Some of Shi Tiesheng's early novels, such as Half-hour Lunch, have the characteristics of exposing "dark side" literature. My Distant Qingping Bay published by 1983 is not only Shi Tiesheng, but also an important novel creation at that time. It is explained on many levels: or it broadens the horizon of "educated youth literature", or its significance in literature "seeking roots". On the issue of "seeking roots", the author expressed the view that "seeking roots" and "seeking roots" are completely different. One is where we come from and why we come. The other is also for: where are we going and how to get there? Regarding the latter, he thinks that "this is to see the absurdity of life and find a reliable basis for the spirit" (Postscript on Sunday, Huaxia Publishing House, 1983 edition).

Shi Tiesheng's personal experience of physical disability makes some of his novels describe the life dilemma and spiritual dilemma of the disabled. However, he transcended the pity and self-pity of the disabled for their fate, and thus rose to the concern of universal existence, especially the phenomenon of mental "disability". Different from other novelists, he has no attachment to the perceptual life characteristics of his own nation and region. He regards writing as a narrative and exploration of personal spiritual course. "The universe and its endless desires will become eternal songs and dances. What kind of names this desire has can be ignored "(Shi Tiesheng's Me and Ditan). This persistent concern for the survival of the "disabled" (in Shi Tiesheng's view, all people are disabled and defective) makes his prose have a strong philosophical meaning. Because of his personal experience, his narrative runs through a kind of warmth, but fatalistic sadness; But there is also a struggle against absurdity and fate. Life is like a string, a fable that struggles with absurdity to gain the meaning of existence.

He is the author of a novel "Notes on Retreat", a short story "Life is like a String" and a collection of essays "I and Ditan".

My Far Green Ping Bay and Grandma's Star won the National Excellent Short Story Awards of 1983 and 1984 respectively, and My Old House won the first Lu Xun Literature Award.