The Private Life of Chairman Mao: The Memoirs of Mao's Personal Physician by Anne F. Thurston, Andrew J. Nathan, Tai Hung-Chao, Li Zhisui

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

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

715 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging emotional informative slow-paced
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From 1954 until Mao Zedong's death 22 years later, Dr Li Zhisui was the Chinese ruler's personal physician, which put him in almost daily-& increasingly intimate-contact with Mao & his inner circle. For most of these years, Mao's health wa...

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