Ye Yonglie (叶永烈, 30 August 1940[1]) is a Chinese writer of science fiction and biographies. A few of his stories have been translated into English in The Road to Science Fiction series and elsewhere. During the “Campaign Against Spiritual Pollution” his works were attacked and a story he wrote in 1985 was suppressed for suggesting AIDS had entered the country.[2] As a biographer he has written on early figures in the People's Republic of China. He is also critical of North Korea.[3]