Chinese names are written with surname first.
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The Ye Family |
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Ye Zhetai |
Physicist, professor at Tsinghua University |
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Shao Lin |
Physicist, Ye Zhetai’s wife |
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Ye Wenjie |
Astrophysicist, daughter of Ye Zhetai |
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Ye Wenxue |
Ye Wenjie’s sister, a Red Guard |
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Red Coast Base |
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Lei Zhicheng |
Political commissar at Red Coast Base |
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Yang Weining |
Chief engineer at Red Coast Base, once a student of Ye Zhetai |
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The Present |
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Yang Dong |
String theorist and daughter of Ye Wenjie and Yang Weining |
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Ding Yi |
Theoretical physicist, Yang Dong’s boyfriend |
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Wang Miao |
Nanomaterials researcher |
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Shi Qiang |
Police detective, nicknamed Da Shi |
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Chang Weisi |
Major-general of the People’s Liberation Army |
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Shen Yufei |
Japanese physicist and member of the Frontiers of Science |
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Wei Cheng |
Math prodigy and recluse, Shen Yufei’s husband |
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Pan Han |
Biologist, friend/acquaintance of Shen Yufei and Wei Cheng, and member of the Frontiers of Science |
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Sha Ruishan |
Astronomer, one of Ye Wenjie’s students |
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Mike Evans |
Scion of an oil magnate |
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Colonel Stanton |
U.S. Marine Corps, commander of Operation Guzheng |