Mao's Last Dancer
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Mao's Last Dancer
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Narrated by:
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Paul English
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By:
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Li Cunxin
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Critic Reviews
"[A] heartening rags-to-riches story." (Publishers Weekly)
"[Paul English] exercises such an intense and masterful concentration on the text that the listener's interest never flags.... He imbues the narrative with ingenuousness and enthusiasm, which endearingly befit the image Li is attempting to present of himself. The result is an audiobook that is superior to its source." (AudioFile)
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- Claire
- 04-12-2020
Beautiful story
Interesting story told beautifully. As someone who lives in a different country to which they grew up, it brought tears to my eyes in parts.
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- Jacqueline Benz
- 09-03-2018
Exquisite portrayal of a humble mans life
This was an insight to someone ‘s personal life under extremely hard circumstances, my heart was in mouth for much of the story.
It shows how adversity can bring about such fee termination and in this case wonderful results. ✔️love d this book!
Jacqui
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- Holly Goodacre
- 27-06-2018
WONDERFUL book, I absolutely loved it
Absolutely loved the book, one of the best I've listened to. Both the story and the narration are outstanding. Highly recommended!!!
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- Nicole Tucker
- 12-05-2020
An extraordinary account of Li Cunxin's life
As a young peasant boy growing up in a remote village in Northern China, becoming a ballet dancer is furthest from Li Cunxin's mind.
Li's story about how ballet changed the course of his life and his freedom, is extraordinary and a story everyone will enjoy.
The narrator Paul English, was excellent and he had me captivated the whole time listening to Li's story.
I loved this personal account of Li's life and challenges during the Chinese Communist regime.
I highly recommend this story to anyone who is willing to listen to such an amazing story.
Thank you Audible for making this story into our Audio libraries.
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- Anonymous User
- 21-07-2021
brilliant
loved it. a must read! a touching tale that starts in communist China into capitalist America and sees the changes in china from a distance
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- Jean
- 06-07-2024
Fantastic book and I admire Li's courage
I enjoyed the book very much, great story and tirals and tribulations that Li has endured. It gave insight into China during the cultural revolution and its methods and measures of success.
I only wish the narrator could speak Chinese because the Chinese pronuciation was just terrible.
Also, China Airline is a Taiwanese airline so it can not be possible to be the Airline when Li first left Beijing for America.
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- Dan
- 19-09-2020
sensational
Brilliant read full of hope, courage and persistence highly recommend to any reader from any walk of life.
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- May
- 22-10-2018
beautiful
I don't read much. but this was beautifully worth it. and this is just to fill the word limit
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- Amazon Customer
- 18-02-2020
great story, poor choice of the narrator.
I love the book, story is amazing and very well written, the pace is perfect in my view. but you selected the wrong narrator, there are plenty of Chinese words and phrases in the book, but the narrator consistently mispronounced them. ruined it for those who understand the language.
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good story of course but terrible pronunciations
god awful mis pronunciation of the words and chinese phrases. Audible should be embarassed.
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