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Reader recommendation: Mao's Last Dancer

Monitor readers share their favorite book picks.

  • By Ruth Tait, West Chester, Pa.

Mao’s Last Dancer by Li Cinxin is the intriguing memoir of a Communist peasant who became an outstanding ballet dancer and defected to the United States.

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