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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 fell 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.
Events
April 27th , 1981,
April 28th , 1981, Li Cunxin is detained for 21 hours in the Chinese Consulate
April 29th , 1981, Li Cunxin is released from the Chinese Consulate
Directed by Bruce Beresford
Starring Chi Cao, Bruce Greenwood, Penne Hackforth-Jones, Christopher Kirby
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