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Mao's Last Dancer Poetry multi-dimensional view of eighteenth-century AmericanBefore you can fly, you have to be free. A new edition of the phenomenal international bestseller. From bitter poverty to the stardom of the West this is the extraordinary true story of one boy's great courage and determination. In a small, desperately poor village in north east China, a young peasant boy sits at his rickety old school desk, more interested in the birds outside than in Chairman Mao's Red Book and the grand words it contains. But that