- Is friends with Joan Chen.
- Geling Yan went to the United States from China at the end of 1989 for graduate study. She holds a Master's in Fine Arts in Fiction Writing from Columbia College, Chicago. Geling Yan is affiliated with the Chinese Writers' Association of the People's Republic of China, with Hollywood's Writers' Guild of America, west.
- Geling Yan is affiliated with the Chinese Writers' Association of the People's Republic of China, with Hollywood's Writers' Guild of America, west.
- Yan was born in Shanghai, China in 1959. She is the second child of Yan Dunxun and Jia Lin. She has an elder brother Yan Geping.Yan began performing 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.
- Yan's ex-husband is Li Kewei; they divorced in the 1990s. In 1992, Yan married her second husband Lawrence Walker in Los Angeles. Walker was a diplomat. They have no biological children together, but have adopted a little Chinese girl.
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