Ye Yonglie

Ye Yonglie in 1963

Ye Yonglie (Chinese: 叶永烈; pinyin: Yè Yǒngliè, 30 August 1940[1] – 15 May 2020[2]) was a Chinese writer of science fiction and biographies. A few of his stories have been translated into English in The Road to Science Fiction series and elsewhere. During the Anti-Spiritual Pollution Campaign his works were attacked and a story he wrote in 1985 was suppressed for suggesting AIDS had entered the country.[3] As a biographer he wrote on early figures in the People's Republic of China. He also visited North Korea, and wrote a book The Real DPRK (真实的朝鲜) which was banned in that country and China.[4][5]

Ye wrote a short story named Ba Jin's Dream, which imagines an effort to develop Ba Jin's proposal for a museum of the Cultural Revolution.[6]: 321  In the fictional piece, Ye portrays himself as a secretary of the Shanghai Museum Society which establishes a committee to plan the museum.[6]: 321  After a Kafkaesque effort to obtain the necessary government approvals, the short story ends with the committee laughing bitterly over its failed dream.[6]: 322 

The protagonist of Ye's science fiction classic, Little Smarty Travels to the Future (Xiao Lington manyou weilai 小灵通漫游未来) inspired the name choice of Xiaolingtong cell phones, which were ubiquitous in China's early mobile phone culture.[7]: 195 

References

  1. ↑ Lorenzo Andolfatto, "Authors", in Shi Kong, Urania #1564, Mondadori, November 2010.
  2. ↑ "著名作家叶永烈去世，享年80岁" (in Chinese). 2020-05-15.
  3. ↑ Science Fiction Studies
  4. ↑ Ye Yonglie, "How The Real DPRK Became a Banned Book", Open Magazine (开放杂志), September 2008
  5. ↑ Joel Martinsen, North Korean complaints get a Chinese book banned, danwei.org, 11 September 2008. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
  6. 1 2 3 Li, Jie (2016). "Museums and Memorials of the Mao Era: A Survey and Notes for Future Curators". In Li, Jie; Zhang, Enhua (eds.). Red Legacies in China: Cultural Afterlives of the Communist Revolution. Harvard Contemporary China Series. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Asia Center. ISBN 978-0-674-73718-1.
  7. ↑ Imbach, Jessica (2025). "Network Fantasies: Liu Cixin's China 2185, Digital Futurism, and History as Computer Code". Digital China: Creativity and Community in the Sinocybersphere. Routledge. ISBN 9781041178088.
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