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By Li Cunxin
Biography
In a small, desperately poor village in north-east China, a young peasant boy sits at his rickety old school desk, but that day, some strange men come to his school, Madame Mao's cultural delegates. They are looking for young peasants to mould into faithful guards of Chairman Mao's great vision for China. This is the true story of how that one moment in time changed the course of a small boy's life. One day he would dance with some of the greatest ballet companies of the world. One day he would be a friend to a president and first lady, movie stars and the most influential people in America. One day he would become a star: Mao's last dancer, and the darling of the West.