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Mao's Last Dancer: Young Readers Edition Paperback – 2 May 2005

by Li Cunxin (Author)
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One day, not so very many years ago, a small peasant boy was chosen to study ballet at the Beijing Dance Academy. His mother urged him to take this chance of a lifetime.
But Li was only eleven years old and he was scared and lonely, pushed away from all that he had ever known and loved. He hated the strict training routines and the strange place he had been brought to. All he wanted to do was go home - to his mother, father and six brothers, to his own small village. But soon Li realised that his mother was right. He had the chance to do something special with his life - and he never turned back .
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  1. Reading age
    9 - 12 years
  2. Print length
    352 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Dimensions
    12.9 x 2.6 x 19.7 cm
  5. Publisher
    Puffin
  6. Publication date
    2 May 2005
  7. ISBN-10
    0143301640
  8. ISBN-13
    978-0143301646
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Li Cunxin AO was born in 1961 in the Li Commune, near the city of Qingdao on the coast of north-east China. The sixth of seven sons in a poor rural family, Li's peasant life in Chairman Mao's communist China changed dramatically when, at the age of eleven, he was chosen by Madame Mao's cultural advisers to become a student at the Beijing Dance Academy. After a summer school in America, for which he was one of only two students chosen, he defected to the West and became a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and The Australian Ballet.

Li went on to become one of the best male dancers in the world. He then made a career transition to finance and was a senior manager in a major stockbroking firm in Australia. He lived with his wife, Mary, and their three children, Sophie, Tom and Bridie, in Melbourne for over seventeen years until his appointment as the Artistic Director of Queensland Ballet in 2012. In 2019, Li was named an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the Queen's Birthday honours for distinguished service to the performing arts, particularly to ballet, as a dancer and artistic director.

Li's autobiography, Mao's Last Dancer, has received numerous accolades including the Australian Book of the Year Award and has been published around the world. The children's version won the Australian Publishers Association's Book of the Year for Younger Children and the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards Children's Book Award.

Mao's Last Dancer was adapted into a 2009 blockbuster feature film of the same name by director Bruce Beresford.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Puffin; 1st edition (2 May 2005)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0143301640
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0143301646
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 9 - 12 years
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.9 x 2.6 x 19.7 cm
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 out of 5 stars 379 ratings

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    5.0 out of 5 stars A lovely book!
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    What an amazing life!
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    4.0 out of 5 stars Great book
    Reviewed in Australia on 20 July 2015
    This book is a great one, and I gave it 4/5 stars because nothing is perfect. I would give this book to a teenager, so they could learn that they were very lucky, as I have realised.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars fast delivery
    Reviewed in Spain on 14 April 2021
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  • Grandma
    5.0 out of 5 stars A delightful book
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 March 2019
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    A lovely book. Have lent to many friends and they have all enjoyed it. Unwitting evidence of the Cultural Revolution.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful portrait of an interesting person and his backgrounds.
    Reviewed in Germany on 4 December 2019
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    After having seen the movie that was made on the story one would think that the book does not give much new. But, on the contrary, the reader gets a beautiful insight into contemporary Chinese life and politics.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars I enjoyed the book very much
    Reviewed in Canada on 19 July 2017
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    I enjoyed the book very much, as it is very interesting about life in China. The photos in the book make it more personal.
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  • mamap@shaw.ca
    4.0 out of 5 stars Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin
    Reviewed in Canada on 30 May 2013
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    I was captivated by this book. liked the characters and felt I learned a lot about the control put upon Chinese people by the regime. It was hard for me to imagine the extreme poverty and the cruel methods used to achieve excellence. I was also surprised by the extreme adoration given to Chairman Mao and his wife. I recommend this book.
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