Mao's Last Dancer

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Viking/Penquin
Publisher Place: Camberwell
Publisher Year: 2003
Edition: First Edition

Description: 444 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. In A Small, Desperately Poor Village In Northeast China, A Young 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.

Publishers Description: The true story of a poor Chinese peasant boy who, plucked unsuspectingly at the age of ten from millions of others across the land to be trained as a ballet dancer, turned the situation to his advantage to become one of the world's greatest ballet stars. Simply told, with charm, humour and compassion and at times, great drama. His childhood, despite the terrible hardships, is drawn with love and affection and contrasts starkly with the seven lonely years of gruelling training at the Peking Dance Academy. At the age of l8, Li performs at the Houston Ballet school in the US, which leads to his dramatic defection.

ISBN: 9780670040247