Famous People with Name Shi

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]

Shi Runjiu            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Shi Runjiu: is a Beijing-based Chinese filmmaker.After graduating from the directing department of the Beijing Central Drama Academy in 1992, he went on to direct many documentaries and music videos for MTV.He served as assistant director to Zhang Yimou and Lü Yue on their films To Live and Mr. Zhao, respectively. His first feature was A Beautiful New World (Meili Xin Shijie, 1998), a romantic comedy about a peasant who wins an apartment in Shanghai in a lottery.

Shi Guihong            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Shi Guihong: is a female Chinese football (soccer) player who competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Shi Dan            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Shi Dan: is a female Chinese football (soccer) player who competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Du Shi            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Du Shi: was a Chinese governmental Prefect of Nanyang in 31 AD and a mechanical engineer of the Eastern Han Dynasty in ancient China. Du Shi is credited with being the first to apply hydraulic power (ie. a waterwheel) to operate bellows (air-blowing device) in metallurgy. His invention was used to operate piston-bellows of the blast furnace in order to forge cast iron, which had been known in China since the 6th century BC. He worked as a censorial officer and administrator of several places during the reign of Emperor Guangwu of Han. He also led a brief military campaign in which he eliminated a small bandit army under Yang Yi (d. 26).

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.