
The true story of a poor Chinese peasant boy who plucked unsuspectingly at the age of ten from millions of others across the land to be trained as a ballet dancer turned the situation to his advantage to become one of the world&s greatest ballet stars Simply told with charm humour & compassion & at times great drama His childhood despite the terrible hardships is drawn with love & affection & contrasts starkly with the seven lonely years of gruelling training at the Peking Dance Academy At the age of l 8 Li performs at the Houston Ballet school in the US which leads to his dramatic defection This is a condensed edition specially for younger readers & has an Afterword especially for children