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On the trail of Dr Li Zhisui’s illusive Memories – Part 1/4
“Memory is imperfect. This is because we often do not see things accurately in the first place. But even if we take in a reasonably accurate picture of some experience, it does not necessarily stay...
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On the trail of Dr Li Zhisui’s illusive Memories – Part 2/4
Mao’s personal physician, Dr. Li Zhisui (1919 – 1995), attended West China Union University in Chengdu [now called Sichuan University], which is one of the oldest in China. Soon after graduating from...
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On the trail of Dr Li Zhisui’s illusive Memories – Part 3/4
In 1994, a year before his death, Dr. Li Zhisui published his memoir of Mao, The Private Life of Chairman Mao: The Memoirs of Mao’s Personal Physician. Li based the book’s contents upon his own...
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On the trail of Dr Li Zhisui’s illusive Memories – Part 4/5
Troy Parfitt says, “To say Dr. Li Zhishui was bright, not to mention perceptive and articulate, would be an understatement. I would say he was exceptionally intelligent, and probably a gifted...
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On the trail of Dr Li Zhisui’s illusive Memories – Part 5/5
As you have discovered, while many in the West praised Dr. Li’s memoir of Mao as an accurate portrait of a manipulative egomaniac with little tolerance of dissent and a penchant for young women, the...
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