Hsiung Shih-I

He was the first Chinese person to direct a West End play, and the founder of Tsing Hua Academy in Hong Kong.

In 1935, Hsiung's Lady Precious Stream, based on the Chinese folklore Wang Baochuan and Xue Pinggui, was performed at the Little Theatre in John Street, London, by the People's National Theatre, directed by Nancy Price and Hsiung, and ran for 1,000 nights.

[9] They shared a flat in Hampstead, north London, with fellow expatriate Chiang Yee, author of The Silent Traveller series.

[11] Diana Yeh, a sociologist and social activist, gave the lives of Shih-I and Dymia shared attention in a 2014 biography, The Happy Hsiungs: Performing China and the Struggle for Modernity, published by Hong Kong University Press.

"[12][page needed] Yeh took the first phrase of her title from an illustrated article in Good Housekeeping magazine in the 1950s, depicting the couple at home in Oxford.