Volume 41, Number 19 · November 17, 1994
Unmasking the Monster
By Jonathan Mirsky
The Private Life of Chairman Mao: The Memoirs of Mao's Personal Physician, Dr. Li Zhisui
translated by Tai Hung-chao, with the editorial assistance of Anne F. Thurston, foreword by Andrew J. Nathan
Random House, 682 pp., $30.00
In 755 the Tang dynasty poet Tu Fu wrote about the corruptions of court life:
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