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General Chang is the leader of the Battle Command Center, which is readying Earth to fight back a potential invasion from Trisolaris. Chang is often the first to introduce critical information, whether that is knowledge about the rash of suicides in the scientific community or the existence of the sophon. Though he frequently spars with lower-ranking members of the team like Shi Qiang, Chang is open to collaborating with whomever has the best idea.
General Chang Quotes in The Three-Body Problem
The The Three-Body Problem quotes below are all either spoken by General Chang or refer to General Chang . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 4 Quotes
Chang gave him an inscrutable smile. “You will know more soon. Everyone will know. Professor Wang, have you ever had anything happen to you that changed your life completely? Some event where afterward the world became a totally different place for you? […] The entire history of humankind has been fortunate. From the Stone Age till now, no real crisis has occurred. We've been very lucky. But if it's all luck, then it has to end one day. Let me tell you: it's ended. Prepare for the worst.”
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General Chang Character Timeline in The Three-Body Problem
The timeline below shows where the character General Chang appears in The Three-Body Problem. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 4. The Frontiers of Science
...are from NATO—police officers, and prominent academics. The leader of the group is Chinese general Chang Weisi. Wang also spots the policeman Shi in the crowd.
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The meeting begins, and Wang is baffled to find that General Chang refers to the NATO officer (and some CIA spies) as “comrades”; moreover, it seems as...
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...war is being referenced, and he begins to question his own sense of reality. General Chang explains that there has been a pattern of attacks on scientists, and he asks Wang...
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...learned the woman was Yang Dong, a private, brilliant physicist and the final name on Chang’s list. Since that day, Wang pictured Yang Dong at the center of all his photographs,...
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To Wang’s horror, Chang reveals that all of the physicists on the list have killed themselves within the last...
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...in the meetings, he ultimately decided that he did not have time. Now, however, General Chang asks him to join the Frontiers, because they need someone on the inside of the...
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After the meeting ends, General Chang walks Wang to his car. Wang remains baffled by the whole ordeal, and Chang will...
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Chapter 10. Da Shi
...conclude that someone is out to destroy scientific research entirely, a conclusion that even General Chang has come to agree with. Shi is proud that he has figured this out, even...
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Wang asks Shi about the “war” General Chang claims to be fighting, but Shi does not know much about it. All he understands...
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Since Wang’s work on nanomaterials is applied science, he wonders why Chang and the others have called on him. Before Wang can fall back into despair, Shi...
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Chapter 16. The Three-Body Problem
...Cheng, Shen Yufei’s spacey husband. Wei explains that his life is in danger, though General Chang and the rest of the Battle Command Center do not know this yet. At Shi’s...
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Chapter 31. Operation Guzheng
...time in history, the armed forces of the world’s nations faced the same enemy.” General Chang explains that the human race must fight against the Trisolaran aliens—which, right now, means fighting...
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Specifically, Chang’s mission is to intercept the messages from the Judgment Day ship without destroying the ship...
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Chapter 33. Trisolaris: Sophon
...Command Center meet to discuss what they have learned from the intercepted intelligence. Grimly, General Chang assesses that because of the sophons, humanity can no longer do anything without the Trisolarans...
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