China was such a big, big country, that the existence of families with similar surnames was not a rarity at all and unless you wrote the hanzi or explained the meaning out loud nobody would even know if you and a complete stranger were related or not. The same applied to names.
But there were a few people so bright and important that when their full names were mentioned the mind of everyone immediately formed the figure of that person regardless of whether the one who mentioned that name was referring to that person or not.
One of those names that immediately formed the image of someone when it was mentioned was 'Shen Xinya'.
But who was Shen Xinya?
