Mao’s Last Dancer 1. Identify your text and author Non-fiction text‚ autobiography: Mao’s Last Dancer written by Li Cunxin 2. What is this text about? Summarise the story or the premise of the text. The text is about a young‚ peasant boy called Li Cunxin who lives in a poor village in north-east China. The text is set around the rule of the communist party led by Chairman Mao. One day‚ Li is visited by Madame Mao’s cultural delegates at his school. They are searching for young children to be guards
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with their own voices and living on their own terms? Mao’s Last Dancer takes place in old communist China‚ when Chairman Mao is at his most powerful. mao dominated the culture revolution leads people lose the Spiritual pursuit and freedom for more than ten years history in old China. Through the specific‚ image plots understanding the extraordinary experience of an ordinary people‚ that from li cunxin autobiography "mao’s last dancer". It is open to interpretation the love and sacrifice on his
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Mao’s Last Dancer Term 3 | Maddy Taylor | Mrs Pugliese Hello and welcome to Literature Links‚ a series of podcast lectures which observes and explores social‚ cultural and political issues as highlighted and presented in non-fiction texts. I am your host‚ Maddy Taylor‚ and today I will be exploring significant themes and issues presented in Australian Book of the Year award-winning novel Mao’s Last Dancer‚ by Li Cunxin. Within this literary spectacle‚ Li draws on his own experience growing up in
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This idea is best displayed in Mao’s Last Dancer‚ where we see a young boy‚ Li Cunxin‚ rise from the depths of communism to a shining star in the dance industry. And through his life’s journey we are shown his coming of age and ideologies shift one country to another. The mentality of journey’s is also capitalized in the poem Journey to the Interior where the physical journey can parallel to a more complex internal struggle and confusion. Thus both Mao’s last dancer and Journey to the Interior convey
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In Mao’s Last Dancer we are introduced to the obstacles faced daily by a Chinese boy and his family‚ living in poverty. In Meltdown by Ben Elton‚ we are introduced to obstacles faced daily by Jimmy Corby. Obstacles we can all relate to in the modern world. This is why I think we should study Meltdown by Ben Elton as well as Mao’s Last Dancer as a core text in the Overcoming Obstacles unit. Meltdown is about City Trader Jimmy Corby. Jimmy was living the life being rich‚ pampered and spoilt. That
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young peasant boy’s life by the name of Li Cunxin’s life forever. By pure luck he was chosen to study ballet and serve in Chairman Mao’s Revolution‚ he didn’t know it at the time but he would grow up to become one of the best dancers of all time. His book ‘Mao’s last dancer’ retells his amazing story of survival‚ courage and the battle one man had to prove his worth. Li Cunxin was born in poverty‚ stricken area in Qingdao‚ China to peasant parents who struggled daily to provide him and his 6 brothers
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without him‚ all redeemed from witnessing him in one performance that would change my perspective forever. I was always hopeful for Li‚ and felt lucky that my son‚ out of all other promising students in Qindao‚ had been chosen to dance for Chairman Mao. Although the luck of the Cunxin family had changed‚ it was difficult to adjust to life in the commune without Li’s presence as a guiding light‚ or a helping hand. Having 7 sons while living our conditions was stressful on my poor heart‚ and Li was
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The focus of the short story “Dancer” by Vickie Sears is the positive progression of the main character‚ Clarissa‚ a foster child who gains a sense of her cultural identity as a Native. In the beginning of the story‚ she is introduced as a child with next to nothing and is portrayed to have psychopathic traits. Towards the end of the story‚ there are positive changes in her character. The main factor that led to Clarissa’s progression was her developing a strong interest in the powwow that led
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commune school to find suitable children to study ballet and serve in Chairman Mao’s revolution. At first they passed Li without taking any notice‚ but just as they were walking out of his classroom‚ the class teacher hesitated‚ and suddenly tapped the last gentleman from Beijing on the shoulder and pointed. "What about that boy?" And that boy was Li. | | | | | 4. Li attends Beijing Dance Academy - He was 11 when he left home to begin a seven-year harsh training regime from 5.30 am to 9 pm‚ 6
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Humanities Exam Essay Structure Amza 10E QUESTION 1 INTRODUCTION Contention Gandhi was mostly effective in achieving independence for India Terms Evaluate – finding how valuable Gandhi was as a leader through his ideas about passive resistance that he introduced to his follower and how he used it to achieve independence Effective Leader – is someone who doesn’t always successful‚ but able to bring change and new ideas to the society. An effective leader should have support from his follower
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