The private life of Chairman Mao

by Anne F. Thurston, Li Zhisui

1994 682 pages eng ★ 4.2 (5 ratings)

From 1954 until Mao Zedong's death twenty-two years later, Dr. Li Zhisui was the Chinese ruler's personal physician, which put him in almost daily - and increasingly intimate - contact with Mao and his inner circle. For most of these years, Mao's health was excellent; thus he and the doctor had time…