
Private Life Of Chairman Mao by Zhisui Li
For 22 years, Dr Zhisui Li was Mao Tse-tung's personal physician, confidant and companion. In this biography Li provides insights into social and political events in China, and details of Mao's private life - from his sexual appetite to the political effects of his aims, fears and idiosyncrasies.
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
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
Zhisui Li was Mao Zedong's personal physician for twenty-two years. He immigrated to the United States in 1988, where he wrote the hugely popular biography of Chairman Mao.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099648819 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099648814 |
| Title | Private Life Of Chairman Mao |
| Author | Zhisui Li |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cornerstone |
| Year published | 1996-04-04 |
| Number of pages | 736 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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