Yan Geling

Writing

Yan Geling

Born November 16, 1958 · Shanghai, China (age 67)

Yan Geling (simplified Chinese: 严歌苓; traditional Chinese: 嚴歌苓; pinyin: Yán Gēlíng; born 16 November 1958) is a prominent Chinese-American writer, author of several novels, short stories and screenplays. Much of her work has been adapted for film. She is currently represented by the Hong Kong-based Peony Literary Agency.

Known For

Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down GirlXiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl · 1998
Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl
7.21998
MovieDrama
Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.
The Flowers of WarThe Flowers of War · 2011
The Flowers of War
7.42011
MovieDramaHistory
A Westerner finds refuge with a group of women in a church during Japan's rape of Nanking in 1937. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety.
Coming HomeComing Home · 2014
Coming Home
7.32014
MovieDramaRomance
Lu and Feng are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolution. He finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife no longer remembers him.
Earth: One Amazing DayEarth: One Amazing Day · 2017
Earth: One Amazing Day
7.72017
MovieDocumentary
An astonishing journey revealing the awesome power of the natural world. Over the course of one single day, we track the sun from the highest mountains to the remotest islands to exotic jungles.
One SecondOne Second · 2020
One Second
7.32020
MovieDrama
A movie fan escapes from a labour camp during the Chinese Cultural Revolution and strikes up a relationship with a homeless female vagabond.
Dangerous LiaisonsDangerous Liaisons · 2012
Dangerous Liaisons
6.02012
MovieDramaRomance
Dangerous Liaisons is a Chinese film by Hur Jin-ho based on the novel with the same title by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.
YouthYouth · 2017
Youth
7.42017
MovieDramaHistory
A group of performing art troupe members each face their own trials and tribulations in Chengdu; from escaping a family scandal to dealing with unrequited love, each experiences rejection that shapes their lives.
心弦心弦 · 1981
心弦
1981
MovieWar

Filmography

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Happiness Comes KnockingHappiness Comes Knocking · 2011
Happiness Comes Knocking
8.02011
SeriesFamilyDrama
Jiang Lu works as a make-up artist for an acrobatics group. She's kind, beautiful and talented, but to everyone's bewilderment, still unmarried at the age of 35. Song Yu Sheng is the photographer of a publishing house whose wife, Xiao Yun, died in a motorcycle accident 6 years ago, leaving him a widower with 2 children, Zheng Zheng and Jun Jun. His former mother-in-law, Qian Shu Hua, repeatedly attempts to introduce him to potential romantic partners with the main intention of finding a good step-mother for her grandchildren, but Yu Sheng finds it difficult to feign interest. However, during a chance encounter with Jiang Lu at the phone kiosk outside her apartment building while trying to avoid yet another blind date set up by Shu Hua, sparks begin to fly.

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