International audienceIf, at the beginning of twentieth century, illness belongs to everyday life for Chinese writers, often affected by tuberculosis, its influence on writing is seldom studied, and this, although the individual is becoming the major source of writing and illness is often present in literary texts. Shi Pingmei’s 石评梅 (1902-1928) case is particularly relevant from this angle and this, as much from a biographical point of view as from a literary one: her first short-story is entitled Bing 病 [Illness, 1923], her lover deceases two years later of illness and she dies three years after him from encephalitis. Besides what she has written herself about illness, there are many accounts about her relation to illness, like the novel w...