Please answer the following question: Facts: - period: 1979 -- 2010 - death cause: cerebral hemorrhage - death date: 31 december 2010 - birth date: 4 january 1951 - name: shi tiesheng -lrb- -rrb- - nationality: people 's republic of china - death place: beijing , china - birth place: beijing , china - occupation: writer Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of shi tiesheng .
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shi tiesheng -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- 1951 -- december 31 , 2010 -rrb- was a chinese novelist , known for his story which was the basis of the film '' life on a string '' .the china daily stated regarding his essay about the park near where he lived , '' many critics have considered '' i and the temple of earth '' -lrb- '' : zh : '' -rrb- as one of the best chinese prose essays of the 20th century . ''shi was born in beijing , and graduated from tsinghua university high school .in 1969 he was a '' sent down youth '' or urban youth sent to a rural area of shaanxi as part of the down to the countryside movement of the cultural revolution .there he was paralyzed in an accident at the age of 21 , and was sent back to beijing .shi was published for the first time in 1979 .his 1983 short story '' wo de yaoyuan de qingping wan '' -lrb- '' my faraway clear peace river '' -rrb- won the national excellent short story prize .the story is about a zhiqing 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 .a sequel , '' a story of rustication '' -lrb- '' chadui de gushi '' -rrb- was published in 1986 .in 1980 director tian zhuangzhuang based a short film called '' our corner '' on a story by shi ; it was the first film by a filmmaker of china 's fifth generation cinema .shi 's 1985 novella '' like a banjo string '' -lrb- -rrb- about a pair of blind musicians , was the basis of the 1991 film '' life on a string '' directed by chen kaige .his collections of short stories include '' my faraway clear peace river '' -lrb- '' wo de yaoyuan de qingping wan '' -rrb- -lrb- 1985 -rrb- and '' sunday '' -lrb- '' libairi '' -rrb- -lrb- 1988 -rrb- .a collection of english-language translations of his short stories was published in 1991 as '' strings of life . ''in 1996 his novel '' notes on principles '' -lrb- -rrb- was published .in selecting it as a notable work of chinese literature since 1949 which could qualify as an...