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Adaptations
- form y Mao's Last Dancer ( dir. Bruce Beresford ) Australia : Early Mark Films , 2009 Z1433556 2009 single work film/TV A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin, who at age 11 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 fell 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.
Teaching Resources
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Dedication: to the two special women in my life - my mother and my wife.
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Re-told for children in The Peasant Prince (2007).
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Also sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Lifelong Learning
2018
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— Appears in: Books + Publishing , October vol. 97 no. 4 2018; (p. 9-10)'Kelsey Oldham investigates the role played by younger readers editions in the growth of children's nonfiction.'
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His Age Is No Barre
2015
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— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 30 June 2015; (p. 15) 'He thought he had hung up his ballet shoes but dancer and choreographer Li Cunxin is warming up for one last pirouette.' -
Framing Mao's Last Dancer As a Musical Biopic
2014
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criticism
— Appears in: Studies in Australasian Cinema , vol. 8 no. 1 2014; (p. 56-69) -
Borrowers Stay True to Favourite Authors
2014
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— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 16 February 2014; (p. 23) -
Called to the Barre
2012
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column
— Appears in: Brisbane News , 17 - 23 October no. 904 2012; (p. 12-13)
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Natural Risk-Taker
2003
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review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 30 August 2003; (p. 6)
— Review of Mao's Last Dancer 2003 single work autobiography -
Dance With Destiny
2003
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review
— Appears in: The Age , 1 September 2003; (p. 6)
— Review of Mao's Last Dancer 2003 single work autobiography -
From Mao To Now, A Dancer Takes Stock
2003
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review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 31 August 2003; (p. 3)
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Poverty, Pain and the Perfect Pirouette
2003
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review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 4-5 October 2003; (p. 18)
— Review of Mao's Last Dancer 2003 single work autobiography -
Human Story that Began in Mao's Day
2003
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review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 25 October 2003; (p. 2a)
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The Courier-Mail Book of the Year
2004
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— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 11 September 2004; (p. 10) -
Life, Less Ordinary
2007
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— Appears in: Brisbane News , 3 - 9 October no. 656 2007; (p. 29) -
The Principal and the Pauper
2007
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— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 30 December 2007; (p. 50-51) -
Mao's Last
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"Believe me",
2007
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poetry
— Appears in: Poetry Macao , November vol. 1 no. 1 2007; Writing Macao , no. 5 2007; -
Great Leap Forward
2008
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— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 23-24 February 2008; (p. 6)
Awards
- 2008 winner KOALA Awards — Fiction for Years 7-9 Younger readers' edition.
- 2006 nominated Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards — Best Language Development Book for Upper Primary Children (2003-2013) Nominated for the 2005 Young Readers edition.
- 2005 shortlisted National Biography Award
- 2004 shortlisted 'The Nib': CAL Waverley Library Award for Literature
- 2004 shortlisted The Courier-Mail Book of the Year Award
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Subjects:
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cChina,cEast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
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cUnited States of America (USA),cAmericas,
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cAustralia,c
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