The Private Life of Chairman MaoBy: Li Zhi Sui The most revealing book ever published on Mao, perhaps on any dictator in history.Professor Andrew J. Nathan, Columbia University 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 dailyand increasingly intimatecontact with Mao and his inner circle. in The Private Life of Chairman Mao, Dr. Li vividly reconstructs his extraordinary experience at the center