Jin Xing

Jin Xing
Chinese name
Chinese	金星
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Jīn Xīng
Korean name
Hangul	김성
Transcriptions Revised Romanization Gim Seong McCune–Reischauer Kim Sŏng

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Jīn Xīng

Transcriptions
Revised Romanization	Gim Seong
McCune–Reischauer	Kim Sŏng

Jin Xing (Chinese: 金星; pinyin: Jīn Xīng, Korean: 김성, McCune–Reischauer romanization: Kim Seong); born August 13, 1967 in Shenyang, Liaoning) is a Chinese ballerina, modern dancer, choreographer, actress, and owner of the contemporary dance company Shanghai Jin Xing Dance Theatre. She is the host of Chinese television show The Jin Xing Show. She can speak Chinese, English, Korean, Italian and French. Jin was the first transgender woman in China to receive the government's approval to undergo a sex change, and she is also one of the first few transgender women to be officially recognized as a woman by the Chinese government.

Born to ethnic Korean parents, she studied in a local Korean elementary school. Her father worked in the police department. She was praised as highly intelligent, and had won abacus contests many times. She expressed high enthusiasm in dance performance. At the age of 9, she joined the People's Liberation Army to receive dance and military training; she became a member of the military's dance troupe, and eventually attained the rank of colonel. She experienced strong transsexual desires early in life. She said she would stay outside during rain, and wish that a lightning strike would turn her body female. Later she won the national dance contest with a piece of Central Asian ethnic dance.

1987, Jin went to New York to study modern dance for four years, studying under modern dance pioneers such as Limon, Cunningham, and Graham. She then traveled and performed in Europe, and taught dance in Rome from 1991 to 1993, followed by a world tour, and returned to China at the age of 26. She underwent sex reassignment surgery in 1996. Her left leg was paralyzed for a while after the surgery. After the recovery, she went to Shanghai to choreograph and train students. At the age of 33, she adopted a son and then two other children she raised by herself until her marriage in 2005. She currently lives with her three adopted children and her German husband in Shanghai.

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