Ye Zhetai

Character from remembrance-of-earths-past by Cixin Liu

Theoretical physicist at Tsinghua, Ye Wenjie's father — the man whose death by Red Guards' belt-buckles in front of his daughter is the original wound from which all three books bleed.

Also known as: Professor Ye, 叶哲泰

What They Know

• Modern theoretical physics through the early 1960s — relativity, quantum mechanics, cosmology — at a depth no one in his interrogation panel could refute
• How to die without giving the executioners the satisfaction of recantation

Connections

• parent_of — ye_wenjie
• loves — shao_lin
• located_in — beijing

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