San Antonio College Library

This major new biography of Mao uses extensive Russian documents previously unavailable to biographers to reveal surprising details about Mao's rise to power and his leadership in China.

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...

Study of communist political leadership and the economic development of China from 1949 to 1969 - covers the evolution of the communist political party, reproduces the text of the party constitution of 1969, and examines political problems, social reforms, revolutionary and counter-revolutionary social movements, national planning, economic policy, the role of USSR in providing economic aid, industrial development, rural development, education, etc....