石地

Shi Di, male, born in 1955, is a Chinese writer and online thinker. He moved with his family in childhood and left junior middle school in the second year; in 1978 he entered the Department of Mathematics at Beijing Normal University. After graduation he served as a middle school principal and a research institute director, among other posts. From 2005 he was director of the editorial department of Tianya Community, and later became a freelance writer. His writing covers a wide range of subjects, with 175 works in the collection spanning essays and miscellaneous writings, health, management, Eastern philosophy, literature and biography. These include commentaries on figures such as Beethoven and Einstein and on Russian poetry, practical works on medicinal diets and food therapy for common ailments and on time management for Harvard managers, and historical and philosophical essays on the Analects, the Book of the Later Han and the Lüshi Chunqiu. He is also the author of such books as Collected Essays on Building Ants and The Ignorant Youth.