| A recent book, Mao’s Last Dancer, follows Li Cunxin from poverty to plies. He leaves a poor village home at the height of China’s Cultural Revolution, thrust into a life of ballet and, ultimately, defects to America. This is Li’s inspirational story of how he came to be Chairman Mao Tse-tung’s last dancer and also one of the world’s greatest ballet dancers.
Penguin Books
United Kingdom
(July 20, 2009)
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