The Private Life of Chairman Mao: The Memoirs of Mao's Personal Physician by Li Zhisui
The Private Life of Chairman Mao: The Memoirs of Mao's Personal Physician

Li Zhisui

The Private Life of Chairman Mao: The Memoirs of Mao's Personal Physician

Li Zhisui with Tai Hung-Chao, Andrew J. Nathan, Anne F. Thurston

715 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging emotional informative slow-paced

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"The most revealing book ever published on Mao, perhaps on any dictator in history."--Professor Andrew J. Nathan, Columbia UniversityFrom 1954 until Mao Zedong's death twenty-two years later, Dr. Li Zhisui was the Chinese ruler's personal physicia...

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