Ye Zhetai
Names: Ye ZhetaiWenjie's fatherher fatherYe Wenjie's fatherProfessor Ye
First appears in Book 1: The Three-Body Problem, chapter 1 (1)
Appearances
B1
B2
B3
What you know
Book 1: The Three-Body Problem
- Ch 1A physics professor at Tsinghua who refused to repent, kill himself or go numb, defying his struggle sessions to the end.
- Ch 1He added relativity to the intro physics course, taught the Copenhagen interpretation and the big bang theory, and defended them using experimental evidence.
- Ch 1At the struggle session he wore a steel-bar hat and an iron oven-door plaque, and was beaten to death by four junior high girls.
- Ch 1Under questioning he said he did not know whether God exists, and privately leaned toward believing God did not exist.
- Ch 1Wenjie's father suffered greatly during the Cultural Revolution, as Ruan did.
- Ch 2Ye's father, a physicist with a bad family background, was kept off the double-bomb project and only did peripheral theory; he has been killed.
- Ch 26Ye's father Ye Zhetai was killed on the exercise grounds in front of Ye by Red Guards, who struggled against him.
Connections
- family ofYe Wenjiedaughter
- family ofShao Linwife
- friend ofRuan WenRuan gave him a pipe as a gift
- related toYang Weiningformer graduate student of
- enemy ofTang HongjingGave him the fatal strike with her belt
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.