Famous People with Name Shi

Shi Hairong            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Shi Hairong: is a male Chinese volleyball player. He was part of the gold medal winning team at the 2001 National Games.

Shi Jinsong            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Shi Jinsong: is an artist based in Wuhan and Beijing. He studied at Hubei Academy of Fine Arts.[1]He is particularly known for his first solo exhibition in the United States at Chambers Fine Art in New York Na Zha Baby Boutique exhibition, a series of stainless steel sculptures depicting baby accessories—rattle, cot, stroller, etc.—made from razor-sharp blades (Na Zha is a child warrior deity in Chinese mythology). Chambers Fine Art described this work as a "dialogue, at once menacing and ironic, between the forms of mythic Chinese culture and modern day globalization". He returned to this theme for his Secret Book of Cool Weapons, which portrayed corporate logos such as the Nike Swoosh as martial arts weapons.[2]

Shi Guangnan            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Shi Guangnan: was a Chinese composer, best known for his patriotic and nationalistic songs from the Cultural Revolution era that combine traditional melodies with westernized accompaniment.His songs include "In Hope Field" (???????), "Toasts Song" (???), "If You Must Know I" (???????), "Turfan's Grape Was Ripe" (????????), "Has Lifted Up High the Asian Games Torch" (?????????, 11th session of Asian Games's meeting song), "Hits Hand Drum To Sing Song" (???????), "Premier Zhou, Where You Were At" (???,????), "Under Moonlight Wind at the End Bamboo" (???????), and "Pure White Feather Send Affection" (????????). He also composed many operas, ballets, Beijing operas, and other large-scale works, including the large-scale operas Grieve for the Dead (??, composed in 1981 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Lu Xun) and Qu Yuan (??, 1990), and the ballet Hundred Snake Biographies (???).

Shi Dongshan            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Shi Dongshan: was a prominent Chinese film director throughout the 1920s and 1950s. Shi directed several films that have gained in stature in the intervening years, most notably 1948's Eight Thousand Li of Cloud and Moon.As a young man, Shi Dongshan made his way to the bustling entrepot of Shanghai. In Shanghai, Shi became involved in the nascent film industry as a stage designer and occasional actor for the Shanghai Film Company ("Shanghai Yingxi").[1] By the early 1930s, Shi had become one of the leading directors for the left-leaning Lianhua Film Company, along with Cai Chusheng, Sun Yu and others.[1] Shi would later join another left-leaning studio, Yihua, at the behest of the screenwriter Tian Han.[2] By the late 1930s, Shi had switched studios again, and directed several important works for the new Xinhua Film Company, notably an adaptation of the Nikolai Gogol's "The Government Inspector" entitled Night of the Debauche (1936), and the national-defense film, March of Youth (1937).

Shi Hui            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Shi Hui: was a Chinese actor and film director who gained prominence throughout the 1940s through 1950s. Despite his fame, Shi became a victim during the Anti-Rightist Movement in the mid-1950s and committed suicide soon thereafter.Shi's career as an actor began relatively late. His first film was not until 1940's The Chaotic World (dir. Wu Renzhi), and he would not gain broad recognition until after the war, with a series of classic films including Phony Phoenixes (dir. Huang Zuolin) and Long Live the Mistress (dir. Sang Hu).[1]

Hu Shi            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Hu Shi: was a Chinese philosopher and essayist. His courtesy name was Shizhi (??). Hu is widely recognized today as a key contributor to Chinese liberalism and language reform in his advocacy for the use of vernacular Chinese. He was also an influential Redology scholar.

Hui Shi            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Hui Shi: was a Chinese philosopher during the Warring States Period. He was a representative of the School of Names (Sophists or Dialecticians), and is famous for ten paradoxes about the relativity of time and space, for instance, "I set off for Yue (southernmost China) today and came there yesterday.

Su Shi            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Su Shi: was a writer, poet, artist, calligrapher, pharmacologist, and statesman of the Song Dynasty, and one of the major poets of the Song era. His courtesy name was Zizhan (??) and his pseudonym was Dongpo Jushi (???? “Resident of Dongpo”), and he is often referred to as Su Dongpo (???). Besides his renowned poetry, his other existent writings are of great value in the understanding of 11th century Chinese travel literature as well as details of the 11th century Chinese iron industry.

Xi Shi            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Xi Shi: was one of the renowned Four Beauties of ancient China. She was said to have lived during the end of Spring and Autumn Period in Zhuji, the capital of the ancient State of Yue.

Ye Shi            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Ye Shi: , was a Chinese neo-Confucian of the Song dynasty.A native of Wenzhou, Zhejiang, he was the most famous figure of the Yongjia School, a neo-Confucianism School composed mostly of philosophers from Wenzhou Prefecture in Zhejiang province. In contrast to other neo-Confucianists in the same period like Zhu Xi and Lu Jiuyuan, he stressed practical learning and applying Confucian doctrine to real world problems. This school had important influence on later thinkers from Zhejiang province, including Wang Shouren and Huang Zongxi, who were the most important philosophers in the Ming and Qing periods.