Background
Mr. Li was born in Beijing, China, in 1919.
(From 1954 until Mao Zedong's death 22 years later. Dr. Li...)
From 1954 until Mao Zedong's death 22 years later. Dr. Li Zhisui was the Chinese ruler's personal physician. For most of these years, Mao was in excellent health; thus he and the doctor had time to discuss political and personal matters. Dr. Li recorded many of these conversations in his diaries, as well as in his memory. In this book, Dr. Li vividly reconstructs his extraordinary time with Chairman Mao. of illustrations.
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(For 22 years, Dr Li was Chairman Mao's personal physician...)
For 22 years, Dr Li was Chairman Mao's personal physician, confidant and companion. He saw Mao and his country through the years of "The Great Leap Forward" and the Cultural Revolution. The author reveals details of Mao's relations with Kruschev and other Soviet leaders, and the growing paranoia that led Mao to turn against the Chinese Communist Party's ruling clique. Dr Li also includes details of Mao's private life - his sexual appetite, the luxury and corruption of his imperial court, how he dominated his circle of intimates, his gradual physical disintegration, and the political effects of his aims, fears and idiosyncrasies.
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Mr. Li was born in Beijing, China, in 1919.
Li Zhisui earned medical degree at an American school in China.
After emigrating to the United States in 1988, Mr. Li wrote a biography of Mao entitled The Private Life of Chairman Mao. The biography was based on his recollection of journals he had kept, and later found expedient to destroy, while serving as physician to Mao.
In the summer of 1968 and during the Cultural Revolution, Mao's wife, Jiang Qing, placed Li's life in danger by accusing him of trying to poison her. Mr. Li managed to hide out, living incognito with the workers of the Beijing Textile Factory. These workers were among the 30,000 Mao dispatched to Qinghua University to quell the warfare there between two factions of the Red Guards.
On February 13, 1995, Li Zhisui died of a heart attack at his son's house in Carol Stream, Illinois, where he had been living since emigrating.
(For 22 years, Dr Li was Chairman Mao's personal physician...)
(From 1954 until Mao Zedong's death 22 years later. Dr. Li...)
Li Zhisui married Lillian (deceased).