Mao’s Last Dancer

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At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he falls in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.

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Amanda Schull actor

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Chi Cao actor

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Chengwu Guo actor

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Wen Bin Huang actor Joan Chen actor Bruce Greenwood actor Kyle MacLachlan actor Jack Thompson actor

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Camilla Vergotis actor

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Madeleine Eastoe actor

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Steven Heathcote actor Aden Young actor

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Wang Shuangbao actor

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Barbara Bush actor George H. W. Bush actor Mao Zedong actor Kip Gamblin actor

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George Ellis actor