The Private Life of Chairman Mao by Li Zhisui

The Private Life of Chairman Mao

Li Zhisui with Anne F. Thurston

736 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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