She accepts, then seemingly disappears from the novel, which jumps ahead about forty years. Soon thereafter Ye, an astrophysicist by training, is offered a job in a mysterious, highly secret military base. Ye is sensitive, brilliant, incorruptible, and utterly convinced that the human species is irredeemably evil.
Watching is his daughter Ye Wenjie, whose view of humanity is forged by this event. His crime? Teaching ideologically reactionary subjects such as relativity, quantum mechanics, and the big bang theory. Ye Zhetai, a professor of theoretical physics at Tsinghua University, is undergoing a verbally and physically savage “struggle session” that leads to his death.
In its opening pages, The Three-Body Problem plunges us into the Cultural Revolution.
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