Ye Yonglie is the author of a popular science book titled Ten Thousand Why’s, which must have been read by hundreds of millions of Chinese schoolchildren over many generations. In the 1980’s, he wrote The Biography of Jiang Qing and The Biography of Chen Bada, as well as a “Red Series” about the early revolutionary history of the Chinese Communist Party. Since the name Ye Yonglie is well-recognized and well-received, there have been many books published illegally under his name even though he had nothing to them. Over the years, Ye has found more than forty different books in the black-market under his name. Most of the time, someone takes a politically-themed book published in Hong Kong or Taiwan and prints it under Ye’s name for sale in China. That is a very simple process.
But recently, Ye Yonglie has just come across another book which is more elaborate and refined. The story began at the start of the long October 1 holidays. Ye had just returned from Beijing to Shanghai. He was walking around in the Xujiahui district when he saw a woman in her 50’s selling books from the back of a small van. This is one of those mobile book vendors who will take off at the sight of a police patrol. There were all manners of books there. For example, Ye saw The Final Years of Zhou Enlai, which is a banned book on mainland China. That book can be had for only 20 RMB (note: the standard rate is 10 RMB per book, irregardless of the marked price; “The Final Years of Zhou Enlai” comes in two volumes and that is why the cost is 20 RMB).
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