Mao's last dancer
By: Li Cunxin.
Publisher: Putnam
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 451
Subjects: Li, Cunxin, 1961-; Ballet dancers -- China -- Biography; Defectors -- China -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
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.