Jin Xing

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Jin Xing
Chinese name
Chinese金星
Korean name
Hangul김성
Jin Xing
In this Chinese name, the family name is Jin.

Jin Xing (Chinese: 金星; born August 13, 1967 in Shenyang, Liaoning) is a Chinese ballerina, modern dancer, choreographer, actress, founder and artistic director of the contemporary dance company Shanghai. She is a famous transgender celebrity.

Biography[]

Jin was born in 1967 in Shenyang, China,[1] to a Chinese Chosun-Jok family (see Chosŏnjok). Jin studied in a local Chosunjok-Chinese elementary school. Her mother was a translator, and her father was a military intelligence officer.[1][2] She was praised as highly intelligent, and had won abacus contests many times.[3] She expressed high enthusiasm in dance performance. At age 9, she joined the People's Liberation Army to receive dance and military training from a dance company affiliated with the Shenyang Military district.[1] At age 12, she transferred to the People's Liberation Army Art Academy, graduating in 1984.[4] After graduation, she returned to the Shenyang military dance troupe, eventually attained the rank of colonel.[5] She later won the national dance contest with a Central Asian ethnic dance piece.

She won a scholarship to dance in New York.[1] In 1989, Jin went to New York[6] to study modern dance for four years,[2] studying under modern dance pioneers such as Limon, Cunningham, and Graham.[7] 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.[1][8][page needed] She underwent sex reassignment surgery in 1995.[9] Her left leg was paralyzed for a while after the surgery.[5] In 1999, she opened her dance troupe, Jin Xing Dance Theatre.[1][10]

In 2013, she began her television career as a judge on China's first season of So You Think You Can Dance.[1] Jin went viral when she scathingly commented on the show's host's attempt to turn a contestant's injury into a sob story. She commented, "Chinese TV always digs at people's scars, consumes their pain. This is the biggest weakness of Chinese TV and I hate it! I hope that on 'So You Think You Can Dance' we won't use people's pain, we won't use people's sympathy, we won't use people's suffering." Audiences ate up her raw honesty and nine months later she had her own nationally broadcast show.[11]

Jin hosted her own television chat show The Jin Xing Show on Dragon TV between 2015 and 2017.[1] In 2016, she began hosting the dating show Chinese Dating with the Parents, where parents decide on a prospective wife for their sons. The show received criticism for portraying a conservative view on marriage and the role of women in the family.[12] According to Vivian Wang and Joy Dong of The New York Times, Jin "bristles at being called a conservative. If she were a male chauvinist, she said, she would have continued living as a man." She has also advocated against gender discrimination in employment.[1] In May 2021, she appeared in an advertising campaign for Dior to promote the empowerment and independence of women.[1]

She can speak Chinese, English, Korean, Japanese, Italian and French.[1]

Works[]

Jin's dancing works are described by the Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture as "startlingly original and provocative."[13] These include The Imperial Concubine Has Been Drunk for Ages (Guifei zui jiu, an adaptation of the famous Peking opera title) and Cross Border–Crossing the Line (Cong dong dao xi, a collaboration with British pianist Joanna MacGregor).[13]

Her film debut was in the Korean movie Resurrection of the Little Match Girl in 2002. In 2005, she appeared in the Thai movie Tom-Yum-Goong as the villain Madam Rose. She later participated in the Stock Exchange of Visions project in 2007.

Jin and her husband Heinz were contestants on The Amazing Race China 3 in 2016, where they finished 6th.

Personal life[]

As a child, she said she would stay outside during rain, and wish that a lightning strike would turn her male body female.[3] She underwent sex reassignment surgery in 1995[1] in Beijing.[2]

She has adopted 3 children.[1] At the age of 33, Jin adopted a son and then two other children she raised by herself until her marriage in 2005.[14] She married her German husband Heinz Gerd Oidtmann in 2005. She currently lives with her three adopted children and German husband in Shanghai.

Filmography[]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m Wang, Vivian; Dong, Joy (July 16, 2021). "She's One of China's Biggest Stars. She's Also Transgender". The New York Times. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c Faison, Seth (14 September 1999). "Beijing Journal; As China Changes, a Sex Change Can Bring Fame". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Sylvie Levey et al. (2002). Colonel Jin Xing: A Unique Destiny. [Documentary film]. New York, NY: Filmakers Library.
  4. ^ Fontdeglòria, Xavier (24 April 2017). "La bailarina que antes fue bailarín". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 January 2018.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b Branigan, Tania (10 September 2012). "Jin Xing: from Chinese army officer to dancing TV stardom". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
  6. ^ Kisselgoff, Anna (July 21, 1991). "Review/Dance; An International Touch To American Festival". The New York Times. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  7. ^ Francis, Rain (April 1, 2010). "Jin Xing's Story". Dance Informa. Retrieved February 20, 2017.
  8. ^ Jin, Xing (2004). Even God's Mistake Could Not Block My Dream. Li Ming (trans.). 晶冠出版社. ISBN 957-28409-7-5.
  9. ^ Rodda, Curtis (25 January 2018). "Jin Xing: China's transgender TV star". BBC News. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
  10. ^ Follath, Erich (20 March 2006). "Ballet, a Sex Change and a Small Revolution: The Odyssey of Jin Xing". Spiegel Online. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
  11. ^ Sheehan, Matt (April 16, 2015). "Meet The Badass Transgender Talk Show Host Who Wants To Be China's Most Influential Woman". Huffington Post. Retrieved February 20, 2017.
  12. ^ Yan, Alice (15 April 2017). "How transgender dancer Jin Xing conquered Chinese TV". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
  13. ^ Jump up to: a b Davis, Edward L. (2003). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese culture. London: Routledge. p. 421. ISBN 0-415-24129-4.
  14. ^ Rahman, Abid (1 November 2016). "Meet the Oprah of China, Who Happens to Be Transgender". The Hollywood Reporter.

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