![]() Wang Miao, an expert in a brand-new technology known as nanomaterial, has recently received an invitation to join a secretive group called the Frontiers of Science. ![]() Yang explains that if Ye works as a researcher on Radar Peak, she will be spared punishment-but once she enters the military base, she can never leave it. At Red Coast, scientist Yang Weining, one of Ye’s father’s former students, greets her. The peak, named for the giant antenna on top of it, is home to the Red Coast military base. ![]() Ye expects to be tortured for the letter, but to her surprise, she instead is brought to a mysterious mountain called Radar Peak. However, the letter backfires, drawing the government’s ire, and a panicked Bai frames Ye for the entire thing. ![]() Bai wants to write to the Chinese government and urge them to slow the rate of their deforestation, and Ye offers to transcribe the letter for him. When she befriends reporter Bai Mulin, Ye learns that humans are rapidly destroying Earth’s environment. Her father, a theoretical physics professor named Ye Zhetai, has been tortured to death for his allegedly anti-Communist beliefs, and her mother, Shao Lin, was among his torturers.Ī few years later, Ye Wenjie has been sent to a Mongolian labor camp, where she spends her days cutting down trees. It’s the height of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and for college student Ye Wenjie, the world is falling apart. ![]()
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