Li Cunxin was born in a small village near the city of Qingdao, in northern China. At eighteen, he was selected to perform at the Houston Ballet, which led to a dramatic defection to the United States. He has performed as a soloist with the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.
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The extraordinary memoir of a peasant boy raised in rural Maoist China who was plucked from his village to study ballet and went on to become one of the greatest dancers of his generation.
From a desperately poor village in northeast China, at age eleven, Li Cunxin was chosen by Madame Mao's cultural delegates to be taken from his rural home and brought to Beijing, where he would study ballet. In 1979, the young dancer arrived in Texas as part of a cultural exchange, only to fall in love with America-and with an American woman. Two years later, through a series of events worthy of the most exciting cloak-and-dagger fiction, he defected to the United States, where he quickly became known as one of the greatest ballet dancers in the world. This is his story, told in his own inimitable voice.
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毛的时代已经过去,但那个时代最后的舞者,用他人生的独白,给我们讲述了一个伤花怒放的故事。 我是幸运的,因为我发现了这本书。人生看完的第一本英文书,居然是这样一部伟大的作品。从翻开的第一页开始,它就有一种让我无法停下来的力量。这是李存信的自传,却也属于那个时...
评分阅读这本书是因为看了电影《最后的舞者》(Maos Last Dancer),该片是近来老外拍中国题材比较靠谱的一部,因为电影内容基本改编自《舞遍全球》,所以都是李存信本人的亲身感受。当然电影中在具体事件的时序上做了修改,以便体现戏剧冲突。 真心觉得,该片应该在中国公映。现在...
评分我读的是啥青年读者版,一共200多页,看原版好像将近五百页,估计是把叛逃以后的章节全部浓缩在afterword里了,难怪这个afterword特别长……看到最后Li的父母赶到美国看他的演出我居然有点泪目。 这本书其实给了我一开始完全没想到会有的激励。Li固然是非常幸运,但他也非常非...
评分是那种让人读得很快的书。 和电影比较,会发现存信还是我们这边的。 很难相信在今天,老外还在拿30年前那个模式去套中国人,即使这其实主要讲的是一个30年前的故事。 我一直以为,那会的中国人和现在的,并无大的区别,最大的,也许只是腰上那一圈肉罢了。
评分81年,就在李存信即将结束第二次访美前夕,他决定和一位自己深爱的美国女孩登记结婚,同时决定不回国了。他当时将自己的决定告诉了恩师Ben Stevenson。由于担心影响与中方的后续交流,Ben Stevenson坚持让李存信自己到休斯顿的中国领事馆说明情况,并且讲明这是他个人的决定...
这本书在国外真的是非常非常非常有名啊,好多人都推荐过,看完五味杂陈,据说作者现在在墨尔本定居,Megz借我书的时候还说,作者之前去uwa做讲座,是个非常有魅力的人。可惜没有见到。
评分感动。幸运的孩子。可以从他的历程里,看到中国。中国的专制、特权、虚伪、洗脑...没有自由,你才什么都不是。
评分主人公身上有很重要的一点特质,对外界环境的自发反应。想起老爸关于人自然和社会属性的话,是不是和这一点不谋而合呢?
评分One of the best autobiographies I've read in years: about dream, persistence, and the pursuit of happiness and freedom. Simply elegant, like the author's Ballet moves.
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