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Liu Fengtian
Chen Yeun teaches Chinese folk-dancing at the Beijing Dance Academy. He is one of Li Cunxin’s favorite teachers. During Cunxin’s second year at the academy, however, Chen Yeun’s homosexuality comes to the attention of the Chinese Communist Party. As a result, he is dismissed from his post, publicly disgraced, and sent to the countryside for reeducation. He eventually returns, but he is no longer allowed to teach dance. Instead, he is assigned to the academy as a carpenter. When he loses his fingers in an accident, he is demoted yet again and reassigned to work as a janitor.
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Chen Yeun Character Timeline in Mao’s Last Dancer
The timeline below shows where the character Chen Yeun appears in Mao’s Last Dancer. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 9: The Caged Bird
...week at the Beijing Dance Academy, he has his first Chinese folk-dance lesson with Teacher Chen Yuen . Cunxin loves folk-dancing; it is freer than ballet, and it involves beautiful music played...
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Chapter 12: My Own Voice
...on Chinese history and Communist Party ideology. But his favorite teacher second year is still Chen Yuen , the folk-dance instructor. Sadly, he disappears suddenly one day. The students later learn that...
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