Mao's private life was kept very secret at the time of his rule. After Mao's death, Li Zhisui, his personal physician, published The Private Life of Chairman Mao, a memoir which mentions some aspects of Mao's private life, such as chain-smoking cigarettes, addiction to powerful sleeping pills and large number of sexual partners.Li, 1994. Some scholars and others who knew Mao personally have disputed the accuracy of these accounts and characterisations.DeBorga and Dong 1996. p. 4.
Mao's private life was kept very secret at the time of his rule. After Mao's death, Li Zhisui, his personal physician, published The Private Life of Chairma,n Mao, a memoir which mentions some aspects of Mao's private life, such as chain-smoking cigarettes, addiction to powerful sleeping pills and large number of sexual partners.Li, 1994. Some scholars and others who knew Mao personall,y have disputed the accuracy of these accounts and characterisations.DeBorga and Dong 1996. p. 4.