Mao's last dancer
by Li, Cunxin
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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- Full title :Mao's last dancer / Li Cunxin.
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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- Publication Date:2008.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Penguin Books
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2008.
Notes
Originally published: Australia : Penguin, 2003.
The Physical Object
- Description:xiv, 412 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations, genealogical table, portraits ; : 20 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780141040226, 014104022X
- oclc:ocn318163084
- LC Classification:GV1785.L475
- Dewey Decimal:792.8092
Table of Contents
I: My childhood -- 1. Home -- 2. My Niang and Dia -- 3. A commune childhood -- 4. The seven of us -- 5. Na-na -- 6. Chairman Mao's classroom -- 7. Leaving home -- II: Beijing -- 8. Feather in a whirlwind -- 9. The caged bird -- 10. That first lonely year -- 11. The pen -- 12. My own voice -- 13. Teacher Xiao's words -- 14. Turning points -- 15. The mango -- 16. Change -- 17. On the way to the West -- 18. The filthy capitalist America -- 19. Goodbye China -- III: The West -- 20. Return to the land of freedom -- 21. Elizabeth -- 22. Defection -- 23. My new life -- 24. A millet dream come true -- 25. No more nightmares -- 26. Russia -- 27. Mary -- 28. Going home -- 29. Back in my village -- 30. Another wedding, Qingdao, 1988.
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