Early Life
Li was one of 7 brothers, born into poverty in the Li Commune near the city of Qingdao in the Shandong province of People's Republic of China. At the age of eleven, he was selected by Madame Mao's cultural advisors to attend the Beijing Dance Academy, where students endured 16-hour days of training, which he attended for seven years.
He was one of the first students from the Beijing Dance Academy to go to the United States with Zhang Weichang under the financial support by the central government of People's Republic of China.
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