Bai Mulin
Names: Bai MulinBai
First appears in Book 1: The Three-Body Problem, chapter 2 (2)
Appearances
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What you know
Book 1: The Three-Body Problem
- Ch 2Bai Mulin is a sensitive, bespectacled reporter for the Great Production News who is horrified by the Corps' deforestation and drafts a letter to Beijing leaders.
- Ch 2Out of fear after the letter's reception, Bai sacrificed Ye Wenjie to protect himself, claiming he only mailed a letter written under her direction.
- Ch 2Bai later worked for the Science Association, moved to Canada, and died of lung cancer in 1991 without ever mentioning Ye Wenjie.
Connections
- enemy ofYe Wenjiebetrays her to save himself
- member ofGreat Production Newsreporter
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 2Bai gives Ye Silent Spring
Bai Mulin shares his sorrow over the felling of a larch, gives Ye a copy of Silent Spring, and says he will write to Beijing about the Corps' destruction.
- Book 1 · Ch 2Ye copies Bai's letter
Ye returns the book and copies Bai's letter for him because his hands shake; she notices the Radar Peak antenna rising as she leaves.
- Book 1 · Ch 2Ye is interrogated
Three weeks later, Director Zhang confronts Ye with the letter signed 'The Revolutionary Masses' in her handwriting. Bai has disclaimed knowledge of it, leaving Ye to take the blame.
- Book 1 · Ch 2Ye punished with freezing water
Cheng douses Ye and her blanket with water and leaves her in the freezing cell; Ye hallucinates a flag-waving figure that changes between people in her life, and loses consciousness.