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A Girl Named Faithful Plum - The True Story of a Dancer from China and How She Achieved Her Dream (Paperback)
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A Girl Named Faithful Plum - The True Story of a Dancer from China and How She Achieved Her Dream (Paperback)
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In 1977, when Zhongmei Lei was 11 years old, she learned that the
prestigious Beijing Dance Academy was having open auditions. She'd
already taken dance lessons, but everyone said a poor country girl
would never get into the academy, especially without any
connections in the Communist Party of the 1970s. But Zhongmei,
whose name means Faithful Plum, persisted, traveled for three days
and two nights to get to Beijing and eventually beat out 60,000
other girls. But getting in was easy compared to staying in, as
Zhongmei soon learned. Without those all-important connections, she
was just a little girl on her own, far away from family. But her
determination, talent, and sheer force of will were not something
the teachers or other students expected, and soon it was apparent
that Zhongmei was not to be underestimated.
Zhongmei became a famous dancer, and founded her own dance company,
which made its New York debut when she was in just her late 20s. In
"A Girl Named Faithful Plum, " her husband and renowned journalist,
Richard Bernstein, has written a fascinating account of one girl's
struggle to go from the remote farmlands of China to the world's
stages, and the lengths she went to in order to follow her dream.
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