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Dr. Zhisui Li qualified from West China Union University, Chengdu, in 1945 and worked in Sydney before he was appointed as Chairman Mao's personal physician in 1954, a post he held until Mao's death in 1976. From 1980 until 1988, when he emigrated to the United States, Dr. Li served as the vice president of the Chinese Medical Association and the Gerontological Society of China. as Chief Editor of the National Medical Journal of China and the chinese edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association. From 1988 until his death in 1995, Dr. Li lived in Chicago.

Books by Zhisui Li

Private Life Of Chairman Mao

A landmark political biography and personal memoir providing an unprecedented insight into the private life of one of history's most infamous political figures; a dictator placed alongside Adolf Hitler and Robert Mugabe, Chairman Mao was the Communist founder and political leader of The People's Republic of China.

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