Ye Wenjie

Character from The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin

Astrophysics professor whose father was beaten to death by Red Guards in 1966 — the quiet old woman at Tsinghua who, decades ago at a secret radio installation, made a decision the rest of the human race does not yet know about.

Also known as: Wenjie, The Commander, Professor Ye

What They Know

• She sent the first interstellar message from Earth in 1971, using the sun as a microwave amplifier — and eight years later she received a reply
• She murdered her husband Yang Weining and Commissar Lei Zhicheng at Red Coast Base to keep that reply secret
• She is the spiritual leader of the Earth-Trisolaris Organization and personally co-founded it with Mike Evans
• She knows the operating theory and antenna design of the Red Coast transmitter intimately — she helped build it
• She believes humanity is incapable of solving its own moral problems and must be intervened upon from outside

Connections

• child_of — ye_zhetai
• child_of — shao_lin
• loves — yang_weining
• parent_of — yang_dong
• ally_of — mike_evans
• leads — eto
• teaches — sha_ruishan
• located_in — tsinghua_university
• enemy_of — lei_zhicheng

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