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Published by Random House, New York, 1994
ISBN 10: 0679400354ISBN 13: 9780679400356
Seller: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. xxii, 682 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket with light shelfwear. Another copy available. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. "From 1954 until Mao Zedong's death twenty-two years later, Dr. Li Zhisui was the Chinese ruler's personal physician, which put him in almost daily - and increasingly intimate - contact with Mao and his inner circle. For most of these years, Mao's health was excellent; 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 The Private Life of Chairman Mao he vividly reconstructs his extraordinary experience. The result is a book that will profoundly alter our view of Chairman Mao and of China under his rule. Dr. Li clarifies numerous long-standing puzzles, such as the true nature of Mao's feelings toward the United States and the Soviet Union. He describes Mao's deliberate rudeness toward Khrushchev when the Soviet leader paid his secret visit to Beijing in 1958, and we learn here, for the first time, how Mao came to invite the American table tennis team to China, a decision that led to Nixon's historic visit a few months later. We also learn why Mao took the disastrous Great Leap Forward, which resulted in the worst famine in recorded history, and his equally strange reason for risking war with the United States by shelling the Taiwanese islands of Quemoy and Matsu. Dr. Li supplies surprising portraits of Zhou Enlai and many other top leaders. He describes Mao's perverse relationship with his wife, and gives us insight into the sexual politics of Mao's court. We witness Mao's bizarre death and the even stranger events that followed it. Dr. Li tells of Mao's remarkable gift for intimacy, as well as of his indifference to the suffering and deaths of millions of his fellow Chinese, including old comrades. Readers will find here a full and accurate account of Mao's sex life, and of such personal details as his peculiar sleeping arrangements and his dependency on barbiturates." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.
Published by Random House, New York, New York, U. S. A., 1994
ISBN 10: 0679400354ISBN 13: 9780679400356
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition/First Printing. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. The Book Is Bound In Black Cloth Over Boards With Gilt Lettering On The Spine. The Heavy Text Block Has Sagged From The Cover. Minor Edge Wear. The Unclipped Jacket Has Minor Wear.
Published by Random House, NY, 1994
ISBN 10: 0679400354ISBN 13: 9780679400356
Seller: Clausen Books, RMABA, Colorado Springs, CO, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Quarter Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good (in mylar). Maps/Floorplans/Plates (illustrator). First Edition/1st Printing. Pencil marginalia on approx. 7 pages, former owner's inked gift inscription on ffep, else textblock is clean and very tight. Couple small and faint pencil markings on the fore-edge and bottom edges. Black cloth spine with slight reading fold down the spine, black paper boards. Unclipped dust jacket, minimally shelf worn, mylar sleeved with surface scuffing to the mylar. 682p., including notes, chronology, and index. Size: 8vo - over 7 " - 9 " tall. Hardcover.
Published by Random House, New York, 1994
ISBN 10: 0679400354ISBN 13: 9780679400356
Seller: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. xxii, 682 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. "From 1954 until Mao Zedong's death twenty-two years later, Dr. Li Zhisui was the Chinese ruler's personal physician, which put him in almost daily - and increasingly intimate - contact with Mao and his inner circle. For most of these years, Mao's health was excellent; 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 The Private Life of Chairman Mao he vividly reconstructs his extraordinary experience. The result is a book that will profoundly alter our view of Chairman Mao and of China under his rule. Dr. Li clarifies numerous long-standing puzzles, such as the true nature of Mao's feelings toward the United States and the Soviet Union. He describes Mao's deliberate rudeness toward Khrushchev when the Soviet leader paid his secret visit to Beijing in 1958, and we learn here, for the first time, how Mao came to invite the American table tennis team to China, a decision that led to Nixon's historic visit a few months later. We also learn why Mao took the disastrous Great Leap Forward, which resulted in the worst famine in recorded history, and his equally strange reason for risking war with the United States by shelling the Taiwanese islands of Quemoy and Matsu. Dr. Li supplies surprising portraits of Zhou Enlai and many other top leaders. He describes Mao's perverse relationship with his wife, and gives us insight into the sexual politics of Mao's court. We witness Mao's bizarre death and the even stranger events that followed it. Dr. Li tells of Mao's remarkable gift for intimacy, as well as of his indifference to the suffering and deaths of millions of his fellow Chinese, including old comrades. Readers will find here a full and accurate account of Mao's sex life, and of such personal details as his peculiar sleeping arrangements and his dependency on barbiturates." - Publisher. Size: 8vo. Collectible.