The Private Life of Chairman Mao: The Memoirs of Mao's Personal Physician Dr. Li Zhisui
by Zhisui, Dr. Li Translated By Professor Tai Hung- Chao
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- Hardcover
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- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0679400354
- ISBN 13
- 9780679400356
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1994. Translated by Tai Hung-Chao with editorial assistance of Anne F. Thurston. She is a distinguished scholar of recent Chinese history and culture. Foreword by Professor Andrew J. Nathan, Columbia University. He believes this book to be "The most revealing book ever published on Mao, perhaps on any dictator in history." The contents: Foreword - Preface - Map of China - Map of Zhongnanhai - Organization of the Chinese Communist Party in the Mid-1950's - Organization of the General Office in the 1950's - (1) The Death of Mao - (2) 1949 - 1957 - (3) 1957 - 1965 - (4) 1965 - 1976 - (5) The Aftermath - Notes - Chronology - Biographical Sketches - Index. 92 chapters provided. A section of photographs present. Rather than a biography the author is instead recording what he saw and heard during the twenty-two years as Mao's personal physician. An interesting read! Price-intact dust jacket. The condition of this book promises to please.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.
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- Title
- The Private Life of Chairman Mao: The Memoirs of Mao's Personal Physician Dr. Li Zhisui
- Author
- Zhisui, Dr. Li Translated By Professor Tai Hung- Chao
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0679400354
- ISBN 13
- 9780679400356
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- Zeding Mao 1893 1976 + Heads of State China + China History + Mao Biography + Anne F. Thurston + Professor Andrew Nathan + Chinese Politics + China Famine + Taiwanese Islands Quemoy Matsu + Bejing + Chairman Mao + Memoirs + Peoples Libration Army + Cutlu
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