The Three-Body Problem

LIST OF CHARACTERS

Ye Zhetai — Physicist, professor at Tsinghua University

Shao Lin — Physicist, Ye Zhetai’s wife

Ye Wenjie — Astrophysicist, daughter of Ye Zhetai

Ye Wenxue — Ye Wenjie’s sister, a Red Guard

Lei Zhicheng — Political commissar at Red Coast Base

Yang Weining — Chief engineer at Red Coast Base, once a student of Ye Zhetai

Yang Dong — String theorist and daughter of Ye Wenjie and Yang Weining

Ding Yi — Theoretical physicist, Yang Dong’s boyfriend

Wang Miao — Nanomaterials researcher

Shi Qiang — Police detective, nicknamed Da Shi

Chang Weisi — Major-general of the People’s Liberation Army

Shen Yufei — Japanese physicist and member of the Frontiers of Science

Wei Cheng — Math prodigy and recluse, Shen Yufei’s husband

Pan Han — Biologist, friend/acquaintance of Shen Yufei and Wei Cheng, and member of the Frontiers of Science

Sha Ruishan — Astronomer, one of Ye Wenjie’s students

Mike Evans — Scion of an oil magnate

Colonel Stanton — U.S. Marine Corps, commander of Operation Guzheng