The Private Life of Chairman Mao
Title in another language: 毛泽东私人医生回忆录 (Chinese)
The Private Life of Chairman Mao
The Memoirs of Mao's Personal Physician
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Year
1994
First Pub.
United States; Taiwan
Genre
Biography / Memoir / Reportage
The Private Life of Chairman Mao: The Memoirs of Mao's Personal Physician is a memoir by Li Zhisui, one of the physicians to Mao Zedong, former Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, which was first published in 1994. Li had emigrated to the United States in the years after Mao's death. The book describes the time during which Li was Mao's physician, beginning with his return to China after training in Australia, through the height of Mao's power to his death in 1976 including the diverse details of Mao's personality, sexual proclivities, party politics and personal habits.Wikipedia →
Written in Chinese by Li. First published in 1994 with an English-language edition issued in the US and a Chinese-language edition in Taiwan (China Times Publishing Co.). The published Chinese edition was not directly based on Li's original manuscript, but it is rather a back-translation attributed to translator Liao Shushan (廖书珊).
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