![]() She became an acclaimed dancer during a stint in New York, founded her own dance troupe in Shanghai and adopted three children whom she raised on her own until her marriage in 2005. Her post-military life was no less ambitious. ![]() ![]() For the next 10 years, Jin’s rise through the ranks of the military would follow two distinctly different paths: As a promising member of the dance troupe, she studied Russian ballet, Chinese opera, dancing and acrobatics as a soldier, she became proficient with machine guns and learned how to place bombs delicately under bridges. As early as 4 she felt she was different, not just in terms of her sexual identity but also thanks to a precocious talent for dance that would, by age 9, result in her admission to a prestigious troupe within the People’s Army (traditional dance and acrobatics are considered strong propaganda tools within the Chinese military). The son of ethnic Korean parents - her father was a bureaucrat in the army and her mother a translator - Jin was born in 1967 in Shenyang, a provincial northeast city in mainland China. ![]() Paramount+ Coming to Virgin Media in U.K. ![]()
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