Mao's last dancer / Li Cunxin.
Li, Cunxin, 1961-
2005
GV1785.L475 A3 2005 (Mapit)
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Title Mao's last dancer / Li Cunxin.
Author Li, Cunxin, 1961-
Edition Berkley trade pbk. ed
ISBN 9780425201336 (pbk.)
0425201333 (pbk.)
Imprint New York : Berkley Books, 2005, c2003.
Language English
Description xvii, 451 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Call Number GV1785.L475 A3 2005
Dewey Decimal Classification 792.8/092 B
Summary "From a desperately poor village in northeast China, to a career that took him across the world, this is the incredible story of Li Cunxin -- a story that almost vanished, like so many other peasants' lives, amid revolution and chaos. At age eleven, Li 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, wary of class enemies and prepared to "serve glorious communism." It didn't take long for him 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 the remarkable story of his journey -- a heartening rags-to-riches story [and] a fascinating glimpse into the history of Chinese-U.S. relations and the dissolution of the Communist ideal in the life of one fortunate individual."--From p. [4] of cover.
Note Originally published: New York : Putnam, c2003.
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Part one: 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
Part two: Beijing
8. Feather in a whirlwind
9. The caged bird
10. That first lonely year
11. The pen
12. My own voice
13. Teacher Xio's words
14. Turning points
15. The mango
16. Change
17. On the way to the West
18. The filthy capitalist America
19. Good-bye, China
Part 3: 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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