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The novel first introduces Ye Wenxue as a passionate, nameless, young member of the communist Red Guard. Only later is it revealed that she is also Ye Wenjie’s little sister and Ye Zhetai and Shao Lin’s younger daughter. Ye Wenxue’s decision to put ideological loyalty over loyalty to her family—even going so far as to inform on her father—represents one of the great betrayals of Ye Wenjie’s life. At the age of 15, Ye Wenxue is killed in a skirmish between various young communist revolutionaries.
Ye Wenxue Quotes in The Three-Body Problem
The The Three-Body Problem quotes below are all either spoken by Ye Wenxue or refer to Ye Wenxue . 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 1 Quotes
The weapons attacking her were a diverse mix: antiques such as American carbines, Czech-style machine guns, Japanese Type-38 rifles; newer weapons such as standard issue People's Liberation Army rifles and submachine guns, stolen from the PLA after the publication of the “August Editorial”; and even a few Chinese dadao swords and spears. Together, they formed a condensed version of modern history.
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Ye Wenxue Character Timeline in The Three-Body Problem
The timeline below shows where the character Ye Wenxue appears in The Three-Body Problem. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 2. Silent Spring
...all about Ye’s father, Ye Zhetai—and worse still, the source for the report is Ye Wenxue, Ye’s younger sister. Wenxue is a deeply passionate Red Guard, to the point that she...
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First, Ye sees her sister, Wenxue, waving a flag on top of a building. Ye recalls that Wenxue was killed two...
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