Mao's last dancer (2003 ed.)
by Li Cunxin
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 067004024X
- ISBN 13
- 9780670040247
- Seller
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Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller
- Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RB15493
- Title
- Mao's last dancer (2003 ed.)
- Author
- Li Cunxin
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 067004024X
- ISBN 13
- 9780670040247
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- Australia
- Date Published
- 2003
- Keywords
- BZDB1 Biography & Autobiography; Dance. ISBN: 067004024X EAN: 9780670040247 Li Cunxin Mao's last dancer (2003 ed.)
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