1. Jin Xing or Kim Seong is a Chinese dancer, choreographer, and actress.
15 Facts About Jin Xing
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Jin Xing is known as one of the few transgender public figures in China.
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Jin Xing's mother was a translator, and her father was a military intelligence officer.
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Jin Xing later won a national dance competition with a Central Asian ethnic dance performance.
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In 1989, Jin Xing moved to New York on a scholarship to study modern dance for four years, training under pioneers such as Merce Cunningham and Martha Graham.
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Jin Xing's left leg was paralyzed for three months after the surgery.
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Jin Xing went viral when she scathingly commented on the show's host's attempt to turn a contestant's injury into a sob story.
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Jin hosted The Jin Xing Show on Dragon TV between 2015 and 2017.
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Since 2021, after a series of her shows were shut down or her credits erased, Jin Xing has publicly protested against being discriminated against and censored by the authorities.
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Jin Xing participated in the Stock Exchange of Visions project in 2007.
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In March 2022, Jin Xing criticized Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, on Weibo for launching a military invasion into Ukraine; her post was censored and her account muted.
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When Jin Xing was six years old, she went outside during a storm, hoping that "lightning would strike and transform her into a girl".
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At the age of 33, Jin Xing adopted a son and then two other children she raised by herself until her marriage in 2005.
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Jin Xing married her German husband Heinz Gerd Oidtmann in 2005.
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Jin Xing was recognized as one of the BBC's 100 women of 2017.