The famous "red writer" Ye Yonglie died and wrote the "Red Trilogy" such as "Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek" and "The Rise and Fall of the Gang of Four"

At 9:30 a.m. on May 15, the famous writer Ye Yonglie died of illness in Shanghai Changhai Hospital.

Ye Yonglie was born in 1940 in Wenzhou, Zhejiang. He graduated from Peking University in 1963. He published poetry at the age of 11, wrote his first book at the age of 19, became the main author of "100,000 Whys" at the age of 20, and wrote "PHS Roaming the Future" at the age of 21.

He is better known for a series of "red works".

Ye Yonglie's 1.5 million-word "Red Trilogy", "The Red Starting Point", "History Chooses Mao Zedong", and "Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek", shows the red course from the birth of the Communist Party of China to the birth of New China; "The Beginning and End of the Anti-Rightist Faction" reflects the whole process of the "Anti-Rightist Movement" in 1957 in an all-round and multi-angle manner; the 1.82 million-word long volume "The Rise and Fall of the Gang of Four", "The Biography of Chen Boda", and "The Beginning and End of Wang Li's Storm" are the true records of China's ten-year Cultural Revolution. "Deng Xiaoping Changes China" is a panoramic documentary about the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Wounded America is a detailed account of the 9/11 incident in the United States, a major event that changed the course of world history. In addition, there are also "He Influenced China - The Complete Biography of Chen Yun", "Speaking with Facts", "Haunting the Storm", "History Is Pondering Here", "Into Hua Guofeng", "A Pen of the CPC Central Committee - Hu Qiaomu", "Approaching Qian Xuesen", "American Free Travel" and so on.

In 1989, he was hired as a consultant by the American Institute of Biography. In 1998, he won the "Best Biographical Writer Award" at the Golden Dragon Award for Chinese Literary Artists in Hong Kong. In October 2005, he won the first "Outstanding Biographical Literary Writer Award" in China. When Taiwan's "Biographical Literature" launched Ye Yonglie's biographical literary works, the editor's note once commented: "The author is a historian, a biographer, and the most accomplished writer. ”

He graduated from the Department of Chemistry at Peking University in 1963. He went to the chemistry department, but he always wrote and published a lot of works. In my sophomore year, I wrote a book "Carbon Family", because I did not know the editors of any publishing house, I felt that the Shanghai Children's Publishing House was suitable, so I copied the address from the copyright page of the book and sent it directly to the publishing house. Soon he received a notice telling him that the manuscript was well written and published immediately.

Later, he met the editor of "100,000 Whys" and was worried about the chemical fascicle. In fact, the chemistry fascicle has been compiled, which is written by some middle school chemistry teachers in Shanghai, and it is written like a textbook, and the editor feels dissatisfied. After reading "Carbon Family", the editor proposed to let him try to write a chemical fascicle, so he sent him the topic, he tried to write 5 articles, the editor was very satisfied after reading it, let him write. After every 10 articles were written and sent to the editors, by the time the chemical fascicle was published, the entire book was 173, and 163 of Ye Yonglie's were used. Later, he wrote astronomy, meteorology, agriculture, biology and other fascicles.

"100,000 Whys" was first published on International Children's Day in 1961, with a total of more than 900 whys in 5 books, and Ye Yonglie wrote more than 300.

At the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, "100,000 Whys" was regarded as a "big poisonous weed", and Ye Yonglie, as the author of the "big poisonous weed", was raided, and he worked in the May Seventh Cadre School for 3 years.

Later, Ye Yonglie wrote a large number of works related to the history of the Party. In an interview report by the China Reading Daily, Ye Yonglie said: "From popular science to documentary, there is a great contrast, and the industry is completely unfamiliar. I must have a very systematic understanding of the history of the Communist Party of China from scratch. But I can adapt to all kinds of very big changes, and the habit I have developed since I was a child is that no matter what I do, I either don't do it or do it well. The same is true when you turn to the history of the Communist Party of China; the study of the history of the Communist Party of China is a very profound study, and it is necessary to study a large number of documents, and what you possess is something that no one else has. Otherwise your stuff is unreal and unreliable. I can interview a lot of people, which is my advantage, and I have to be brave enough to tell the reader the truth. I wrote a book called "In Search of Historical Truth", many of which are exclusive, such as an interview with Chen Boda. I have a significant portion of documentary literature that is oral history. At the same time, I also wrote a lot of prose, all of which were written with feeling, relatively short. Documentary literature is a 'heavy weapon', prose is a 'light weapon', and when you write it, you will accumulate many prose anthologies over time. ”

Source: People's Daily China Reading News, etc