Theme: Chairman Mao

Dancing to Freedom: The True Story of Mao’s Last Dancer

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

In a poor village in northern China, a small boy named Li Cunxin was given the chance of a lifetime. Selected by Chairman Mao’s officials from among millions of children to become a dancer, Li’s new life began as he left his family behind. At the Beijing Dance Academy, days were long and difficult. Li’s [...]

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Sparrow Girl

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

Ming-Li looked up and tried to imagine the sky silent, empty of birds. It was a terrible thought. Her country’s leader, Chairman Mao had called sparrows the enemy of the farmers–they were eating too much grain, he said. He announced a great “Sparrow War” to banish them from China, but Ming-Li did not want to [...]

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