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The Private Life of Chairman Mao
Zhisui Li
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Description for The Private Life of Chairman Mao
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 720 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; BGH; HBJF; HBLW3; JPFC; JPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 40. Weight in Grams: 518.
For the first time, here is the extraordinary true story of one of the most powerful men, and ruthless dictators, who ever lived.
Mao Zedong had control over more people for a longer period than any other leader in history. In this intimate biography we learn not only about the imperial grandeur of his life in a country racked by poverty and the vicious infighting at his court, but also about his extraordinary personal habits that equal those of deceased Korean supreme leader, Kim Jong Il, another infamous and idiosyncratic dictator, equally deified and worshipped by his followers: ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cornerstone United Kingdom
Number of pages
720
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
Number of Pages
736
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099648819
SKU
V9780099648819
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99-99
About Zhisui Li
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.
Reviews for The Private Life of Chairman Mao
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 . ... Read more
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 . ... Read more