The Private Life of Chairman Mao - Li Zhisui

From 1954 until Mao Zedong's death 22 years later. Dr. Li Zhisui was the Chinese ruler's personal physician. For most of these years, Mao was in excellent health; thus he and the doctor had time to discuss political and personal matters. Dr. Li recorded many of these conversations in his diaries, as well as in his memory. In this book, Dr. Li vividly reconstructs his extraordinary time with Chairman Mao.

Editorial Reviews
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"Li is Mao's Boswell" Irish Times "A unique political and historical autobiography of inestimable worth, an astounding chronicle of human weakness, political intrigue and corruption and the near destruction of a great nation by a great ego" -- Martin Booth "One of the most vivid descriptions of a dictator ever written" The Times "A classic ... I see Dr. Li as the Tacitus of modern China" -- Hugh Trevor-Roper --