Shao Lin

Shao Lin (绍琳) is Ye Zhetai's wife. During the Cultural Revolution, she accuses her husband of teaching Einstein's theory of relativity, which she labels as a 'capitalist' theory. She also accuses Einstein of being a money grabber and going to the capitalist USA.

Shao Lin called Ohm's law the resistance law, Maxwell's equations the electromagnetic equations, and Planck's constant the quantum constant. She also said that all scientific accomplishments result from the contributions of the working masses. She criticizes Ye Zhetai for teaching the 'reactionary' Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics.

She was also a physicist and once taught a class in a qipao.

But even as a communist fanatic, she did not have the status to carry the Little Red Book. She could not hide the 'fault' that she was born into a family of intellectuals. Her father spoke German and accompanied Einstein when he visited Shanghai in 1922. Moreover, her father studied physics because of Einstein.

Her father accompanied Einstein on Nanjing Road at Shanghai University alongside Yu Youren and Cao Gubing. There Einstein saw a workerboy who made 5 cents a day.