Ge started her career in 1942 and was assigned to the Beijing Federation of Literary and Art Circles. She was a writer-in-residence with the Beijing Writers Association and wrote scripts for the Beijing Puppet Theater troupe. During her literary career, Ge wrote multiple essays, a novel, fairy tales, poems, plays, and children's literature. She started publishing in 1949 and used the pen name Yinglin (). The collection was translated into Japanese, English, German, Russian, and French. It was also adapted into a puppet film that won the Youth TV Program Award at the Munich TV Festival in 1986. The Chinese Writers Association awarded her the
National Outstanding Children's Literature Award for her fairy tales
Walnut Mountain,
Puppet Somersaulting,
Wild Grape, and
Portrait of Singing. She was a member of the
Chinese Communist Party and served as a member of the Beijing Municipal Committee during the sixth and seventh sessions of the
Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. She was also an executive member of the
All-China Women's Federation. She became a member of the
Chinese Writers Association in 1979. The following year, she joined the Beijing Writers Association. ==Selected works==