Geling Yan's Reviews
Reviews of Geling’s Work
Apr.11.2011
Published by CCSE English Language and Literature Studies
Abstract
It is Yan Geling’s invariable literary thoughts and feelings that express the real deep affections and experiences of women. As a Chinese American writer, she has...
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May.21.2011
Published by El Pais
...Geling Yan es una especialista en nadar entre dos corrientes y maniobrar entre dos aguas...…Una novela en que están siempre presentes las dos aguas antes mentadas: las de la...
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Jun.01.2005
Published by "The Image of History: The Literary Presentation of the Early History of Chinese American in Yan Gel
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Nov.13.2006
Published by TIME Asia Edition
Geling Yan serves up a tasty tale of desire and corruption in China...
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Jan.17.2007
Published by The Asian Review of Books
Yan leads the readers into a labyrinth of "phoney" things: freelance journalists from phantom newsgroups, flashing cameras that produce no photograph, Chinese equivalent...
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Published by Bookbrowse.com
Peer reviews by other authors (Ha Jin, David Henry Hwang, Bharati Mukherjee and Aimee Liu) of The Lost Daughter of Happiness.
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Nov.05.2006
Published by TIME Magazine Europe
Thus begins Dan's career in journalism — and Geling Yan's shark-fin-sharp satire on cuisine and corruption in contemporary China.
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Dec.09.2006
Published by The Guardian (UK)
Isabel Hilton is entertained by Geling Yan's satirical take on contemporary China...
...Yan is not nostalgic for the years of socialism: her earlier work has been caustic about...
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May.13.2001
Published by The New York Times
Yan's use of shifting perspectives -- including that of the narrator herself, who confesses her ''surprise'' at the unpredictable behavior of her imagined characters --...
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Aug.27.2006
Published by New York Times
Geling Yan’s sly comic novel about the excesses — culinary and otherwise — of modern life in the Chinese capital... Although it may seem fantastical, her fiction is rooted in fact.
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Aug.09.2001
Published by The Economist
There is no single authentic voice of Chinese fiction. And that may very well be a good thing.
ONE clear fact emerged from the controversy over Gao Xingjian's Nobel...
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Mar.01.2006
Published by Contemporary Literature - Volume 47, Number 4, Winter 2006, pp. 570-600
Although the name Yan Geling may mean very little to U.S.-based academics, Yan is often commended by scholars in mainland China and Taiwan as one of the most important Chinese-...
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Aug.25.1999
Published by City Pages
In Yan's stories it is the small kindness, the brief, tender moment, that surmounts the walls. At these times her characters, no matter how recalcitrant, breathe free, as when Wen...
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Feb.01.2000
Published by American Studies International, Vol XXXVIII, no. 1, pp. 61-71
Scholarly article by Prof. Pin-chia Feng, Chair of Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan. Prof. Feng suggests a re-mapping of...
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About Geling
Geling Yan is one of the most acclaimed contemporary novelists and screenwriters writing in the Chinese language today and a well-established writer in English. Born in Shanghai, she served with the People's Liberation Army (PLA) during the Cultural...
Connections
Causes Geling Yan Supports
Chinese-American Mental Health Network...