Mao’s Last Dancer
At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he falls in love with an American woman.
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At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he falls in love with an American woman.
One of the most important events in world history, seen through the eyes of a dancer.
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At the age of eleven, the course of Li Cunxin's life would change forever, when he was chosen to study ballet at the Beijing Dance Academy. Eventually he became one of the world's best dancers.
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