Li Zhisui; Mao Tse-Tung’s Personal Physician

Li Zhisui, 75, Mao Tse-tung’s personal physician who wrote a book, “The Private Life of Chairman Mao,” describing the Chinese leader’s odd personal habits. Li served as Mao’s doctor for 22 years ending in 1976 when Mao died. Li published the book last year based on his own diaries. According to Li’s chronicle, Mao never bathed or brushed his teeth, was a lecher and believed more in Chinese history than in Marxist theory. Li said that Mao spent years in a specially built bed that had to be ferried around China with him and that the chairman believed sex with legions of young women would prolong his life. The architect of Communist China, the doctor wrote, was also fearful of assassination and had no friends, only enemies. Announced on Tuesday near Chicago of natural causes.