Many readers think that there are two Ye Yonglie in China, one is Ye Yonglie who wrote "One Hundred Thousand Whys" and "PHS Roaming the Future", and the other is Ye Yonglie who wrote "Jiang Qing Biography". In the eyes of these readers, the author who wrote "One Hundred Thousand Whys" could not have written "Jiang Qing Biography"; the author who wrote "Jiang Qing Biography" could not have written "One Hundred Thousand Whys".Because these are two types of works with completely different contents, completely different themes, and completely different styles.Based on this, it is speculated that there are two writers with the same name and surname in China, both named "Ye Yonglie".

In fact, there is only one Ye Yonglie—he wrote science popularization in the early days, and later wrote documentary. This time, when I published "Ye Yonglie's Collected Works", I also divided the collected works into two parts: "Ye Yonglie's Popular Science Collected Works" and "Ye Yonglie's Documentary Collected Works". The "Collected Works of Ye Yonglie" compiled this time has a total of fifty volumes.in: "Ye Yonglie's Collected Works of Popular Science", Volume 23; "Ye Yonglie's Anthology of Documentaries", volume 27.

My documentary works not only have more volumes than popular science works, but also have more words in total.My documentary collection directory is as follows: Volume One: "The State and the Communist Party" Volume Two: Volume Three: "Jiang Qing Biography" Volume Four: "The Biography of Zhang Chunqiao" Volume Five: "Wang Hongwen Biography" Volume Six: Biography of Yao Wenyuan Volume Seven: "1978: A Great Turning Point in China's Destiny" Volume Eight: "The Road to Chen Yun" Volume IX: "The Patriotic "Traitor" - The Biography of Ma Sicong"

Volume Ten: "Mao Zedong's Secretaries" Volume Eleven: "Ye Yonglie's Interview Notes" Volume 12: "Love in a Fallen City: Liang Shiqiu and Han Jingqing" Volume Thirteen: The Chinese under the Stars and Stripes Volume Fourteen: "A Strange Case in the Mist: Dai Houying's Journey of Mind" Volume 15: "The Ups and Downs of Celebrities" Volume Sixteen: Records of Celebrities Volume 17: "Commercial Housing War" Volume Eighteen: "Half of My Home Is in America" In addition, there are six volumes of "Red Starting Point", "History Chooses Mao Zedong", "Right and Wrong He Zhili", "Leaving People Tears", and "A Pen of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China-Hu Qiaomu", which have been published by People's Daily published by the company.

When compiling the anthology this time, I had a lot of hesitation about the title of the book: should it be called "Ye Yonglie's Collected Works" or "Ye Yonglie's Complete Works"? As far as my popular science creation is concerned, it has been "sealed" and has come to an end, which can be called "Complete Works".Because I have stopped writing popular science, and I will not write popular science again in the future. However, as far as the creation of documentary literature is concerned, I am still in the "present continuous tense".

After weighing again and again, it was finally decided to use "Ye Yonglie's Documentary Collection" as the general title of the book. Readers often ask me: Why did you switch from popular science creation to documentary literature? This is not a question that can be clarified in a sentence or two.Broadly speaking, there are several factors: One is that with the growth of age, "forty without confusion" gradually turns to thinking about the destiny of the country and deep thinking about history; second, after the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the political atmosphere in China gradually relaxed; third is the documentary The field of literature is wider than popular science, and the way of creation is wider, and it is closer to readers and the times; the fourth is the choice of readers for me-my documentary literature has more readers than popular science works, and has greater social repercussions .This objectively shows that I am more suitable for writing documentary literature.

In this way, I completely turned from popular science creation to documentary literature creation.Although many friends didn't understand at the beginning, they now all think that my "transition" is very successful. This collection of essays is somewhat similar to the "year-end inventory" of a store.In the past, I didn't know how many works I actually wrote.Through the "year-end inventory" this time, it became clear that I have written a total of 16 million words (the exact number of words is still unknown) since I published my first work when I was eleven years old. It will not be known until the "Ye Yonglie Documentary Collection" is published), and has written a total of more than 50 volumes.

This "big inventory" took more than a year.During the past year or so, I seldom wrote new works, and went all out to compile anthologies.My wife, Ms. Yang Huifen, assisted me in sorting out the anthology and made great efforts. In fact, just "inventory" does not take so much time.In my opinion, it is not the main purpose of publishing an anthology to "take inventory" of one's own works and publish them systematically.I hope that through the publication of this anthology, the overall quality of the work can be improved a step further.Because of this, I took advantage of this publication of the anthology to revise and supplement many works, especially the documentary novels, and some of them also conducted supplementary interviews.The entire anthology has added hundreds of thousands of words.Although revising an old work is much more troublesome than writing a new one, like mending old clothes is more troublesome than making new ones. Sometimes it takes a lot of energy to check a historical fact, a date, or a person’s name, but I still try my best to do it. Because the goal I have been pursuing all my life is to dedicate more exquisite spiritual food to readers.

After finishing "Ye Yonglie's Documentary Collection", I created many new works.Among them, the new works of medium and short stories have been supplemented into the "Collected Works of Ye Yonglie".In addition, I also created a new full-length "Life Trilogy", namely "Right and Wrong "Cinderella", "Into the Depths of History" and "Haunting and Haunting"."Right and Wrong "Cinderella"" with more than 500,000 words and "Into the Depths of History" with more than 700,000 words are being published. "Haunting the Storm" is being written.These three new novels are not included in Ye Yonglie's Documentary Collection.

If these three new novels are counted, "Ye Yonglie's Documentary Collection" has a total of thirty volumes. Here, I also solemnly declare: Fake "Ye Yonglie Anthology" was recently found on book stalls across the country, including the long novels "Mao Zedong and Liu Shaoqi" and "Mao Zedong and Lin Biao".These two novels are not my works, but the works of Hong Kong writers.Pirated booksellers falsely used the name of "Ye Yonglie's Collected Works" to publish "Mao Zedong and Liu Shaoqi" and "Mao Zedong and Lin Biao", which not only seriously violated the reputation of "Ye Yonglie's Collected Works", but also seriously violated the copyright of Hong Kong writers. I have entrusted my perennial legal Lawyer Fu Minrong, the consultant, pursued the case.