KHOU 11 News caught up with “Mao's Last Dancer” at the Asia Society Texas Center to talk about his life. The unlikely ballet star was born in a commune in Qingdao, China, in bitter poverty.

The true story of Li Cunxin and his journey from rural China to the bright lights of ballet stardom. 11-year-old Li Cunxin is living with his parents and six siblings while attending a tumbledown ...

Li Cunxin (“Mao’s Last Dancer”) is seen during a media call at the the Immigration Museum in Melbourne, Australia, Source: AAP Image/Luis Ascui Dilini Eriyawala, a lecturer at Deakin ...

Before he became the legendary Mao's Last Dancer, Li Cunxin was a peasant boy in communist China with nothing to his name but a burning desire to work harder than everyone else. The retiring ...