Mao's Last Dancer
Material type: TextPublication details: BerkleyDescription: 528 pagesISBN:- 9780425240304
- 792.8028092
- GV1785.L475
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Lake Chapala Society | 792.8 CUNX (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 53785 |
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 love with America-and with an American woman. Two years later, through a series of events worthy of the most exciting cloak-and-dagger fiction, he defected to the United States, where he quickly became known as one of the greatest ballet dancers in the world. This is his story, told in his own inimitable voice.Watch a Video
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