How long does it take to read Mao's Last Dancer?
Cunxin Li
Mao's Last Dancer by Cunxin Li takes about 8 hours 8 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 8 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2003. 444 pages, about 122,100 words. Written for children.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 34 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 8 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 5 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A poor child living in poverty is chosen out of millions of children to attend Madame Mao's dancing ballet. His life drastically shifted from living in poverty to studying dance.
Subjects: Ballet dancers, Biography, Defectors, Autobiography and memoir, Dance, Dancers, biography
