Mao's Last Dancer (Movie Tie-In)
by Cunxin, LiFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-07-27
Publisher(s): Berkley Trade
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Summary
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.
Author Biography
Li Cunxin was born in a village near the city of Qingdao, in northern China. At eighteen, he was selected to perform with the Houston Ballet, leading to his dramatic defection to the United States. Li, who has performed as a principal dancer with the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet, now lives with his wife and their three children.
Table of Contents
| A Wedding: Qingdao, 1946 | p. xi |
| My Childhood | |
| Home | p. 3 |
| My Niang and Dia | p. 20 |
| A Commune Childhood | p. 37 |
| The Seven of Us | p. 55 |
| Na-na | p. 70 |
| Chairman Mao's Classroom | p. 81 |
| Leaving Home | p. 104 |
| Beijing | |
| Feather in a Whirlwind | p. 123 |
| The Caged Bird | p. 140 |
| That First Lonely Year | p. 154 |
| The Pen | p. 168 |
| My Own Voice | p. 180 |
| Teacher Xiao's Words | p. 201 |
| Turning Points | p. 220 |
| The Mango | p. 236 |
| Change | p. 245 |
| On the Way to the West | p. 255 |
| The Filthy Capitalist America | p. 266 |
| Good-bye, China | p. 282 |
| The West | |
| Return to the Land of Freedom | p. 303 |
| Elizabeth | p. 314 |
| Defection | p. 325 |
| My New Life | p. 339 |
| A Millet Dream Come True | p. 351 |
| No More Nightmares | p. 365 |
| Russia | p. 379 |
| Mary | p. 392 |
| Going Home | p. 408 |
| Back in My Village | p. 416 |
| Another Wedding: Qingdao, 1988 | p. 431 |
| Afterword to the Original Edition | p. 439 |
| My Story Continues | |
| Keeping Hearts Warm | p. 447 |
| "Nothing Is Impossible" | p. 459 |
| Paper Wishes | p. 474 |
| The Li Family Tree | p. 493 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 495 |
| Discussion Guide | p. 497 |
| Photographic Credits | p. 499 |
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