Pivotal Books - Mao's last dancer by Li Cunxin

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". 'Appalling, brave and funny... you cannot do better than read this book.' Mall on Sunday. 'Li Cunxin's story is a breathtaking indictment of brute Communism, told with great honesty.' Kate Adie, Guardian. 'It is a joy to read a book by someone who actually has a story to tell... This is one man's epic story, simply and generously told.' Herald." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product 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 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.

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