1 Films & TV Shows Set In Shandong Province During The 1980s
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Mao's Last Dancer
Texas Shandong Province The 1970s The 1980sBefore you can fly, you have to be free. — 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.