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Mao's Last Dancer

Mao's Last Dancer( )
Author: Cunxin, Li
Read by: English, Paul
ISBN:978-1-74093-675-0
Publication Date:Jul 2005
Publisher:Bolinda Publishing Pty, Limited
Book Format:CD-Extra
List Price:USD $43.95
Book Description:

This is the true story of how, by the thinnest thread of a chance, one moment in time changed the course of a small boy's life in ways that are beyond imagination. One day he would dance with some of the greatest ballet companies of the world. One day he would be a friend to a President and First Lady, movie stars and the most influential people in America. One day he would become a star: Mao's last dancer, and the darling of the West. Here is Li Cunxin's own story, a beautiful, rich...
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Book Details
Detailed Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):2.66 x 8.97 x 0.519 Inches
Book Weight:0.279 Pounds
Author Biography
Cunxin, Li (Author)
Li Cunxin was born into poverty in the Shandong province of People's Republic of China. At the age of eleven, he was selected by Madame Mao's cultural advisers to attend the Beijing Dance Academy, where students endured 16-hour days of training. He was one of the first students from the Beijing Dance Academy to go to the United States.

In the 1970s, he joined Ben Stevenson's Houston Ballet company as an exchange student. He also began a relationship with an aspiring American dancer, Elizabeth Mackey. They quickly got married so that Li could remain in the United States and avoid deportation. In the end, his Chinese citizenship was revoked.

In 1995 he moved to Melbourne to join the Australian Ballet. In 1987 he married again to Australian dancer Mary McKendry. They have three children together. In 2003 Li published his autobiography, Mao's Last Dancer. The book has become a feature film with the same title. It will be released in 2010.

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