“The most revealing book ever published on Mao, perhaps on any dictator in history.”—Professor Andrew J. Nathan, Columbi
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From 1954 until Mao Zedong's death 22 years later. Dr. Li Zhisui was the Chinese ruler's personal physician. F
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Everyone who came in close contact with Mao was taken aback at the anarchy of his personal ways. He ate idiosyncraticall
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In 1920s Shanghai, Zhou Enlai founded the first Chinese communist spy network, operating in the shadows against national
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Edition description: Enigmatic, Eminence grise, the ‘power behind the throne’ – these phrases sum up Zhou Enlai’s long a
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1966. The year of change. The year of division. The middle of the 1960s, the great dividing line between what America ha
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From the wastes of the sea to the shadows of our own cities, we are not alone. But what happens where the human world to
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