Shanghai Tango: A Memoir
by Jin Xing | Biographies & Memoirs | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 9781843546337 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 9781843546337 Global Overview for this book
2 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by 
J4Shaw
from finding my place, Somewhere -- Controlled Releases on Sunday, December 6, 2009
J4Shaw from finding my place, Somewhere -- Controlled Releases on Sunday, December 6, 2009
About the Author:
Jin Xing born August 13, 1967 in Shenyang, Liaoning, is a ballerina, modern dancer, choreographer and actress from the People's Republic of China, and owner of the contemporary dance company "Shanghai Jin Xing Dance Theatre". She is one of the first few trans women officially recognized by the Chinese government.
About the Book:
This unusual memoir describes how China's foremost male ballet dancer (and colonel in the People's Army) underwent China's first sex-change operation and became the Shanghai Ballet's prima ballerina. This book is suitable for fans of "Running with Scissors"; "Self-Made Man", and fans of "Transamerica". Fans of ballet and modern dance. Anyone interested in gender issues, and in Chinese culture and customs. Jin Xing is a former prima ballerina, one of the brightest stars of the Shanghai Ballet. But her journey to international fame has been fraught with difficulty because Jin Xing was in fact born a man. From an early age she was intensely uncomfortable with her gender. Unable to understand or put words to her feelings, she immersed herself in ballet dancing, her first love. Aged 9, she joined the People's Liberation Army, where she received both dance and military training and attained the rank of colonel. The curtains opened on a new act in her life when, at the age of 19, she received a scholarship to study dance in New York. It was there that she discovered for the first time that it was possible to change sex. In an instant, what had been the province of dreams became a real opportunity. She took the courageous decision to return to China to face the authorities, quit the army, and confront the world with her decision to become a woman. As dramatic, graceful and deeply felt as a pas de deux, "Shanghai Tango" is a deeply personal and inspiring account of growing up in a body that feels alien and of braving pioneering surgery in communist China.
Jin Xing born August 13, 1967 in Shenyang, Liaoning, is a ballerina, modern dancer, choreographer and actress from the People's Republic of China, and owner of the contemporary dance company "Shanghai Jin Xing Dance Theatre". She is one of the first few trans women officially recognized by the Chinese government.
About the Book:
This unusual memoir describes how China's foremost male ballet dancer (and colonel in the People's Army) underwent China's first sex-change operation and became the Shanghai Ballet's prima ballerina. This book is suitable for fans of "Running with Scissors"; "Self-Made Man", and fans of "Transamerica". Fans of ballet and modern dance. Anyone interested in gender issues, and in Chinese culture and customs. Jin Xing is a former prima ballerina, one of the brightest stars of the Shanghai Ballet. But her journey to international fame has been fraught with difficulty because Jin Xing was in fact born a man. From an early age she was intensely uncomfortable with her gender. Unable to understand or put words to her feelings, she immersed herself in ballet dancing, her first love. Aged 9, she joined the People's Liberation Army, where she received both dance and military training and attained the rank of colonel. The curtains opened on a new act in her life when, at the age of 19, she received a scholarship to study dance in New York. It was there that she discovered for the first time that it was possible to change sex. In an instant, what had been the province of dreams became a real opportunity. She took the courageous decision to return to China to face the authorities, quit the army, and confront the world with her decision to become a woman. As dramatic, graceful and deeply felt as a pas de deux, "Shanghai Tango" is a deeply personal and inspiring account of growing up in a body that feels alien and of braving pioneering surgery in communist China.
Released 13 yrs ago (7/30/2010 UTC) at Darwin, Northern Territory Australia
CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
I enjoyed this book, as I do any a true story.
I found the writing to be romantic and honest, and very personal.
This one is off to Okyrhoe as one of their picks from the Asian VBB
I found the writing to be romantic and honest, and very personal.
This one is off to Okyrhoe as one of their picks from the Asian VBB
Arrived in Athens. ***Thanks so much*** J4shaw!!
(Selected from the Contemporary Asian Literature VBB started by ApoloniaX.)
(Selected from the Contemporary Asian Literature VBB started by ApoloniaX.)
