description: 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.
language: English
title: Mao's Last Dancer: Young Reader's Edition
titlecomplete: Mao's Last Dancer: Young Reader's Edition
genres: China, Autobiography, Historical, Asian Literature, History, Asia, Biography Memoir, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 30517
places: Beijing
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Kids Own Australian Literature Awards (KOALA)
category: Fiction Years 7-9, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Australian Booksellers Association Book of the Year
publisher: Bolinda Audio