Mao's last dancer
Li, Cunxin, 1961-2009
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Li Cunxin tells his story, tracing his life from his early childhood among the Chinese peasantry and his being thrust into the world of ballet, through his winning a scholarship to America and his eventual defection to the West in 1981, knowing that he would never see his family again.
Main title:
Mao's last dancer / Li Cunxin.
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Imprint:
London : Viking, 2009.
Collation:
432 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: Australia: Penguin; London: Fusion, 2003.
ISBN:
9780141040226 (pbk)
Dewey class:
792.8092792.809
Language:
English
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BRN:
1320175
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