This memoir is by a ballet dancer who rose to be a Colonel in the People's Liberation Army Dance Corps. However, all his life, he had dreamt of becoming a ballerina. In 1990, Jin Xing went to the New York on a scholarship. Five years later, following gender reassignment surgery, he became a woman (this apprears to have been one of the first such operations in China). Now a determined choregrapher and businesswoman, she lives with her children in Shanghai.