Mao's last dancer / Li Cunxin
- Bib ID:
- 3099870
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Li, Cunxin, 1961-
- Description:
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- New York : Putnam, 2003
- xvii, 444 p. : ill., geneal. tables, ports. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 039915096X
- Summary:
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"In a small, desperately poor village in northeast China, a peasant boy sits at his rickety old school desk, interested more in the birds outside than in Chairman Mao's Red Book and the grand words it contains. But that day, some strangers come to his school - Madame Mao's cultural delegates. They are looking for young peasants to mold into faithful guards of Chairman Mao's great vision for China." "The boy watches as one of his classmates is chosen and led away. His teacher hesitates. Will she or won't she? She very nearly doesn't. But at the last moment, she taps the official on the shoulder and points to the small boy. "What about that one?" she says.".
"This is the true story of how that one moment in time, by the thinnest thread of chance, changed the course of a small boy's life in ways beyond description. One day he would dance with some of the greatest ballet companies of the world. One day he would be a friend to a president and first lady, movie stars, and some of the most influential people in America. One day he would himself become a star: Mao's last dancer and the darling of the West."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject:
- Also Titled:
- Mao's last dancer a memoir
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2003
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