Mao's last dancer / Li Cunxin.
By: Li, Cunxin [author]
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BookNew York : Viking, 2003Description: xvii, 451 pages : 23 cm.Content type: Media type: Unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780399150968 (pbk.).Subject(s): Li, Cunxin, 1961- | Ballet dancers -- Biography. -- China | Defectors -- Biography. -- ChinaDDC classification: 792.8092 Summary: Summary:
In a memoir of life in Maoist China, the author describes how he was taken from his family in rural China to study ballet in Beijing, his rise in the world of Chinese ballet, and his defection at age eighteen to the United States
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Front cover note: "[A] fascinating memoir...told simply but passionately, with subtle humor and unguarded emotions." [phrased by] Houston Chronicle.
Summary:
In a memoir of life in Maoist China, the author describes how he was taken from his family in rural China to study ballet in Beijing, his rise in the world of Chinese ballet, and his defection at age eighteen to the United States
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