Mao’s Last Dancer: the dancer in red

Is Mao’s Last Dancer the next Slumdog Millionaire? Perhaps, found Paul Hayes, as Bruce Beresford and Jane Scott had to avoid Chinese censorship to tell the inspirational rags-to riches story of Li Cuxin.

Representing China in the media can be tricky. As anyone who watched last year’s Beijing Olympics, or even those who follow Rio Tinto’s iron ore price negotiations can tell you, the Chinese do not like negative publicity.