Ye Zhemin

Ye Zhemin was born in 1924 into a Manchu family that descended from the Qing dynasty poet Nalan Xingde. His father, Ye Linzhi 叶麟趾, was a historian of Chinese ceramics who discovered the Ding ware kiln site. Ye studied history of ceramics with his father from a young age, and later attended Peking University, where he studied art and calligraphy under Xu Beihong, , and Pu Xinyu. == Contributions ==

In 1977, while surveying the Qingliangsi archaeological site in Baofeng County, Henan, Ye found a sherd of pottery that was typical of Ru ware. His other books include A General Overview of the History of Chinese Calligraphy (中国书法史通论), A General Overview of the Pottery and Porcelain of the Sui, Tang, Song, and Yuan Dynasties (隋唐宋元陶瓷通论), Cizhou Ware of China (中国磁州窑, 2009). == Death ==

In late November 2017, Ye was hospitalized in Beijing for an illness. When a scholar, who was a student of one of Ye's students, went to visit him at the hospital, he found that Ye was lying in bed in a hallway. He posted a picture on social media, which was widely circulated and raised an outcry in Chinese media against the maltreatment of a renowned scholar. The hospital later moved him into a room, but he died a little more than a month later on 2 January 2018, aged 93. == References ==