BRISBANE, Australia -- Li Cunxin's life story is so extraordinary that it was made into an award-winning movie.
Raised in abject poverty in China's Shandong Province during the privations of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, Li was plucked from his peasant family at the age of 11 to be trained as a ballet dancer at an academy run by Mao's wife, actress-turned-revolutionary Jiang Qing.
