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Mao's Last Dancer

By Li Cunxin

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| Hardcover | 9781904132899

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Book Description

From a desperately poor village in northeast China, at age eleven, Li Cunxin was chosen by Madame Mao's cultural delegates to be taken from his rural home and brought to Beijing, where he would study ballet. In 1979, the young dancer arrived in Texas as part of a cultural exchange, only to fall in lContinue

3 Reviews

A beautiful, moving memoir of an extraordinary life.

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Dyskarsia said on Nov 24, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

I have read this twice, and shared parts of it with my Chinese students who are learning English. It brought back many memories for them. I loved the detail of everyday lives.
I found it interesting that he now lives in Melbourne and works as a stockbroker, and that his daughter is deaf. She n ... (continue)

I have read this twice, and shared parts of it with my Chinese students who are learning English. It brought back many memories for them. I loved the detail of everyday lives.
I found it interesting that he now lives in Melbourne and works as a stockbroker, and that his daughter is deaf. She now has a cochlear implant.

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Janh said on Dec 20, 2008 | Add your feedback

I wasn't interested in this book but I kept hearing so many good things about it, so I got it from the library. I am so glad I did. I really enjoyed it and really find myself even wishing for more stories from his childhood. It's an amazing, inspirational book to me and I definitely recommend it t ... (continue)

I wasn't interested in this book but I kept hearing so many good things about it, so I got it from the library. I am so glad I did. I really enjoyed it and really find myself even wishing for more stories from his childhood. It's an amazing, inspirational book to me and I definitely recommend it to everyone!

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Deanna Kyre said on Mar 26, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback