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Private Life of Chairman Mao : the Memoirs of Mao's Personal Physician, Dr. Li Zhisui
by Li Zhisui; Zhi-Sui Li; Tai Hung-chao (trans); Anne F. Thurston (ed); Andrew J. Nathan (foreward)
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- hardcover
- First
- Condition
- Very Good+/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0679400354
- ISBN 13
- 9780679400356
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About This Item
New York: Random House, October 1994. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / second printing per number line. Very Good+ book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Foxing along closed edges. Light edgewear to jacket. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 682 pages. Chairman Mao's personal physician takes us into the Chinese dictator's very private world.
Private life of Chairman Mao : the memoirs of Mao's personal physician / Dr. Li Zhisui ; translated by Professor Tai Hung-chao ; with the editorial assistance of Anne F. Thurston ; foreword by Andrew J. Nathan.
Private life of Chairman Mao : the memoirs of Mao's personal physician / Dr. Li Zhisui ; translated by Professor Tai Hung-chao ; with the editorial assistance of Anne F. Thurston ; foreword by Andrew J. Nathan.
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- Books of the World
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- RWARE0000001269
- Title
- Private Life of Chairman Mao : the Memoirs of Mao's Personal Physician, Dr. Li Zhisui
- Author
- Li Zhisui; Zhi-Sui Li; Tai Hung-chao (trans); Anne F. Thurston (ed); Andrew J. Nathan (foreward)
- Format/binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0679400354
- ISBN 13
- 9780679400356
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date published
- October 11, 1994
- Keywords
- biography, Mao Zedong, Mao Tse-tung, Chairman Mao, heads of state, China
- Bookseller catalogs
- China; Biographies; Asia;
- Size
- 8vo
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Selling books from around the world. I am not a professional bookseller. Rather, I am finding new homes for the library I have collected over five decades.
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