As a teenager, she toured internationally with the famous Gungzhou Acrobatic Troupe. After a couple of accidents which injured the same leg, she was advised by doctors to give up foot juggling. While she was recovering she saw the famous Japanese magician Shimadaon television. She was fascinated by the way he had integrated magic into his Asian culture. He was both unique and outstanding in his performance. The Gungzhou's troupe manager encouraged Juliana to develop as a magician. She also took a closer interest in the skill of the troupe's magician. Secretly, she began practising her skill with cards and ping-pong balls--the easiest props for her to find at the time.
Some four years later in 1986, she was recognized as the best magician in China when she won the All-China Best Magician competition. Her desire to take her magic to the international level led her to apply for permission to study English in Canada. In 1988, she left China for Vancouver, Canada. In 1990, Juliana met a friend who introduced her to the local magic stores and The Vancouver Magic Circle--the largest magical society in Canada. Two years later, after winning a major international award in Salt Lake City, Juliana sold her graphics business to concentrate on her career as a magician. Over the next four years, she won numerous magic competitions in Europe. Then in 1997, Juliana won the world title for Manipulation (sleight-of-hand) at The World Congress of Magicians in Dresden, Germany. Juliana became the first woman, and first magician of Chinese heritage, to a world title for a solo act in the 50-year history of The World Congress of Magicians. She was now The World's First Lady of Magic. In the Spring of 2003, Juliana was nominated for Stage Magician Of the Year by the Academy of Magical Arts in Hollywood. That summer Juliana was the subject of a four-page cover story in Saturday Night, Canada's oldest-established magazine. She became the first Canadian magician to be featured on the cover of a national magazine since the late Doug Henning in the mid-seventies. Since winning the world championship, Juliana's career has blossomed around the world particularly in Europe, Asia and the USA.
