The Brothers Who Ate the Wind. "Mao's Last Dancer" by Li Cunxin. [review]
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2003-10
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Grove, Robin
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Australian Book Review
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Determination, and its collision with what resists it, is central to the story of "Mao’s Last Dancer". Cunxin’s resistance to the systems of oppression was sustained by the constant presence in his mind of the Li family and of his undauntable mother above all. The book is like a testimonial sent home, or a letter to the deepest part of himself in the years of growing up. This moving and extraordinary tale combines tenderness with strength, just as Li Cunxin’s dancing still lives in the mind’s eye, unique in its blend of softness and moral power.
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Grove, Robin 2003. The Brothers Who Ate the Wind. Review of "Mao's Last Dancer" by Li Cunxin. 'Australian Book Review', No 255, October, 27-28.