Shao Lin
Names: Shao LinLin Lin
First appears in Book 1: The Three-Body Problem, chapter 1 (1)
Appearances
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What you know
Book 1: The Three-Body Problem
- Ch 1Ye Zhetai's wife and a physics professor, from a prominent family; forced to denounce him publicly, she went mad and laughed after his death.
- Ch 1She renamed physical laws in class (Ohm's law to resistance law) to avoid political trouble, yet was still denied revolutionary status.
- Ch 26Ye's mother recovered from her breakdown, married a persecuted cadre as a gamble, and rose to become a vice president of a university.
- Ch 26Ye saw a wall between herself and her mother; after the deputy minister warned her off old debts, Ye never returned.
Connections
- family ofYe Zhetaiwife
- family ofYe WenjieWenjie once called her mother
- family ofShao Lin's husbandmarried
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 1Death of Ye Zhetai
At a Tsinghua struggle session, Ye Zhetai refuses to recant; his wife Shao Lin denounces him and four girl Red Guards beat him to death with belts, as Wenjie is held back.
- 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.
- Book 1 · Ch 26Ye returns to Tsinghua
Ye and her father were rehabilitated, and she left Red Coast Base for Tsinghua, where she visited her mother Shao Lin and was coldly warned off by her husband.