Mao's last dancer
By: Li Cunxin.
Edition: Berkley trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Berkley Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 451
ISBN-13: 9780425201336
Subjects: Li, Cunxin, -- 1961-; Ballet dancers -- China -- Biography.; Defectors -- China -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Putnam, c2003.
Table of contents: title: Part one: My childhood; title: 1. Home; title: 2. My Niang and Dia; title: 3. A commune childhood; title: 4. The seven of us; title: 5. Na-na; title: 6. Chairman Mao's classroom; title: 7. Leaving home; title: Part two: Beijing; title: 8. Feather in a whirlwind; title: 9. The caged bird; title: 10. That first lonely year; title: 11. The pen; title: 12. My own voice; title: 13. Teacher Xio's words; title: 14. Turning points; title: 15. The mango; title: 16. Change; title: 17. On the way to the West; title: 18. The filthy capitalist America; title: 19. Good-bye, China; title: Part 3: The West; title: 20. Return to the land of freedom; title: 21. Elizabeth; title: 22. Defection; title: 23. My new life; title: 24. A millet dream come true; title: 25. No more nightmares; title: 26. Russia; title: 27. Mary; title: 28. Going home; title: 29. Back in my village; title: 30. Another wedding: Qingdao, 1988.