Ye Yonglie (, 30 August 1940 – 15 May 2020) 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. As a biographer he wrote on early figures in the People's Republic of China. He also visited
North Korea
North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu (Amnok) and T ...
, and wrote a book ''The Real DPRK'' (真实的朝鲜) which was banned in that country and China.
[Joel Martinsen,]
North Korean complaints get a Chinese book banned
danwei.org, 11 September 2008. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
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External links
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Ye Yonglie entry in the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Chinese science fiction writers
1940 births
2020 deaths
Writers from Wenzhou
Chinese biographers
Male biographers
20th-century Chinese male writers
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