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Shen Yufei
Pan Han is a prominent environmentalist whose predictions of various natural catastrophes are so accurate that many believe he came from the future. He believes that human progress is actually a “cancer,” and that humans cannot control or contain the technologies they invent. Therefore, in Pan’s mind, what seems like creation is actually destruction. He is a prominent member of the Adventist faction of the ETO, which hopes to work with the Trisolaran invaders to bring about the death of human civilization. After Pan murders Redemptionist Shen Yufei, the ETO’s leader Ye Wenjie has Pan executed. Pan gives voice to the book’s thematic questions about progress, technology, and humanity’s self-destruction.
Pan Han Quotes in The Three-Body Problem
The The Three-Body Problem quotes below are all either spoken by Pan Han or refer to Pan Han . 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 21 Quotes
“I'm Raphael, from Israel. Three years ago, my fourteen-year-old son died in an accident. I had his kidney donated to a Palestinian girl suffering kidney failure as an expression of my hope that the two peoples could live together in peace. For this ideal, I was willing to give my life. Many, many Israelis and Palestinians sincerely strove toward the same goal by my side. But all this was useless. Our home remained trapped in the quagmire of cycles of vengeance. Eventually, I lost hope in the human race and joined the ETO. Desperation turned me from a pacifist into an extremist.”
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Pan Han Character Timeline in The Three-Body Problem
The timeline below shows where the character Pan Han appears in The Three-Body Problem. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 6. The Shooter and the Farmer
As Wang moves to leave, he notices another car pull up, and a man named Pan Han gets out of the car. Pan is a famous environmentalist; he has risen to...
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Chapter 16. The Three-Body Problem
Now, Wei confesses that when Pan Han had arrived at this house, he and Shen had fought. They had spoken of...
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Chapter 18. Meet-up
The organizer of the meet-up arrives, and Wang is shocked to see that it is Pan Han. Surreptitiously, Wang texts Shi, who tells him to “play the fanatic” in the meeting....
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Though one player muses about how expensive the game must have been to create, Pan does not indulge this line of thinking; instead, he merely comments that the goal of...
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At last, Pan asks Wang to weigh in. Wang says he agrees with the author, the scientist, the...
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Chapter 21. Rebels of Earth
...serve to recreate the problem at hand. But most of the attendees are focused on Pan Han, who climbs on top of a table. When someone asks Pan if he murdered...
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A fight breaks out, as many of the attendees accuse Pan of using the Environmental Branch of the society for his own personal gain. Though Pan...
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...tyranny,” and the crowd responds, “the world belongs to Trisolaris!” Then, Ye begins to interrogate Pan, telling him he has broken the organization’s key code of conduct by killing Shen. Pan...
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But Ye is not satisfied. Instead, she has Pan repeat the organization’s plan of action, which states that humans can no longer solve their...
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As Pan begins to panic, Ye calmly berates him for killing Shen Yufei simply because she was...
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Chapter 24. Rebellion
...the police will stop at nothing to take them down. The young woman who snapped Pan’s neck rushes to the spheres at the center of the room and explains that they...
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