FILM SCREENING: APRIL 11, 3:30 - 6 PM
Olson 250
APRIL 12, 4- 6 PM
LIGHT REFRESHMENTS PROVIDED
International Center, Multi-Purpose Room
Acclaimed novelist and screenwriter Yan Geling was born in Shanghai. She has published over 40 books and has won over 30 literary and film awards. Her works have been translated into twenty-one languages. Her best-known novels in English are The Secret Talker, Little Aunt Crane, The Flowers of War, The Banquet Bug and The Lost Daughter of Happiness, and White Snake and Other Stories. Her works have been adapted for film and television, directed or produced by famous directors such as Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Feng Xiaogang, Ang Lee, Li Shaohong and Joan Chen. She has been subject to an unwritten ban in China since March 2020, when she wrote an essay criticizing the Chinese government’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis.
