← Yan GelingOrchidby Yan GelingFind on Amazon↗About the authorYan GelingChinese-American novelist and screenwriter whose fiction draws on Chinese historical trauma. The Flowers of War and The Criminal Lu Yanshi were adapted into acclaimed films by Zhang Yimou.More by Yan GelingThe Flowers of WarHistorical novel of women and war during Japan's occupation of Nanjing→The Criminal Lu Yanshi→White Snake→FusangHistorical epic spanning Chinese immigration and identity in nineteenth-century America→