Li Cunxin

Before 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,...

One day, not so very many years ago, a small peasant boy was chosen to study ballet at the Beijing Dance Academy. His mother urged him to take this chance of a lifetime. But Li was only eleven years old and he was scared and lonely, pushed away from all that he had ever known and loved. He hated the...

'This is your one chance. You have your secret dreams. Follow them! Make them come true!' A moving and inspirational story based on the author's life that delights the young and the old, again and again. This true story of a poor Chinese peasant boy, who at the age of ten was plucked unsuspectingly from millions of others across the...