Mao’s Last Dancer
Recommended from age 11. Harsh discipline, defection and communist regime repression.
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- Difficult themes
- War, bullying, illness, broken families, hard real events.
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Availability as of 17 October 2026. Data from JustWatch.
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What it’s about
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.
Genres: Drama, Romance
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