Download or read book Mao's Last Dancer written by Li Cunxin and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Li Cunxin tells his story, tracing his life from his early childhood among the Chinese peasantry and his being thrust into the world of ballet, through his winning a scholarship to America and his eventual defection to the West in 1981, knowing that he would never see his family again.