Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0679764437, Paperback)

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.

Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0099648814, Paperback)

Chairman Mao's personal physician and confidant for twenty two years, takes us for the first time into the Chinese dictator's very private world.