Dr. Li Zhisui (with editorial assistance from American sinologist Anne Thurston)
is a highly controversial but undeniably fascinating memoir written by Dr. Li Zhisui, who served as the personal physician to the Chinese dictator from 1954 until Mao’s death in 1976. The Private Life of Chairman Mao
First-person eyewitness account by a member of Mao's highly guarded inner circle The Private Life of Chairman Mao