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Geling Yan

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born

Shanghai, China

gender

female

website

http://redroom.com/member/geling-yan

genre

Historical Fiction, Literature & Fiction

influences

Saul Bellow, Milan Kundera, Vladimir Nabokov, Flannery O'Connor, Romai ...more

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Geling Yan was born in Shanghai, People's Republic of China. She performed as a dancer at age 12. She served in the People's Liberation Army during the Cultural Revolution, in Tibet and later as a journalist in the Sino-Vietnamese War, achieving a rank equivalent to Lieutenant Colonel. Her first novel was published in 1985. She is the author of such novels as The Banquet Bug (published as The Uninvited in the UK) and The Lost Daughter of Happiness, as well as a story collection entitled White Snake and Other Stories.

Several of Yan's works have been adapted for film, including Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl, which was directed by Joan Chen and Siao Yu, directed by Sylvia Chang and screenplay co-written by Ang Lee. Zhang Yimou, the Chinese direc...more

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Books by Geling Yan

Average rating: 3.42 · 306 ratings · 67 reviews · 16 distinct works

	The Lost Daughter of Happiness 3.29 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 1996 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Flowers of War 3.42 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 2007 — 11 editions	My rating:
	The Banquet Bug 3.24 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions	My rating:
	White Snake and Other Stories by Geling Yan, Lawrence A. Walker (Translator), Ko-Ling Yen 4.24 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1999	My rating:
	The Uninvited 3.29 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	My rating:
	第九个寡妇 by Geling Yan, 严歌苓 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	La novena viuda 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	也是亚当,也是夏娃 by Geling Yan, 严歌苓, 钱虹 (Editor) 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Female Grasslands 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2007	My rating:
	Jinling Shi San Chai: Chang Pian Xiao Shuo 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	My rating:

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