Title: Shanghai
Tango
Author: Jin Xing
Published: 2005
Genre: Memoir
This was a quick
read in between the flurry of activity typical of this time of the year.
Wishing I had an e-reader given all the books I want to read this
Summer...Shanghai Tango is the memoir of a prima ballerina; Jin Xing who danced
for the Shanghai Ballet and other prestigious Ballet Companies both in the US
and Europe. It is a story told from a very detached voice about a young boy,
who is recruited into the People's Liberation Army Dance Corps as a soldier and
a dancer at the age of nine. He becomes a celebrated,
internationally-acclaimed dancer who goes on to become the first person in China to
undergo a full sex-change operation.
