Mao's Last Dancer

From a desperately poor village in northeast China, to a career that took him across the world, this is the incredible story of Li Cunxin-a story that almost vanished, like so many other peasants' lives, amid revolution and chaos. At age eleven, Li was chosen by Madame Mao's cultural delegates to be taken from his rural home and brought to Beijing, where he would study ballet. In 1979, the young dancer arrived in Texas as part of a cultural exchange, wary of class enemies and prepared to "ser…