The Dark Side of the Chinese Communist Leader Mao Zedong: The Pedophile
Mao had a special “sex bed” made with one side raised 10cm higher than the other
Mr. Mao Zedong is considered to be China’s “Great Helmsman”. His brilliance, vision, and philosophies are what lead China today in economic growth and restore its greatness.
Mao Zedong remained head of the nation for the longest duration. But do you know some strange fascinating facts about his personal life?
Mao Zedong was an irritable, manipulative egomaniac incapable of human feeling and surrounded himself with his sycophants.
Once, Zedong refused to get treated for the sexual disease — though he knew that he was spreading sexual disease to the many girls and women, with whom he was sharing his bed.
These claims are from Li Zhisui, the private physician of Mao Zedong.
Dr. Li Zhisui belongs to Beijing. He completed his medical studies during WWII at West Union University Medical School in China.
This was an American missionary college. His training was mostly in English, that’s why Dr. Li was very fluent in English. He went for a Doctor’s job in Australia, but when the communist party of china came into power in 1949, he returned to China.
Then he remained a private physician of Mao from 1955 to Mao’s death in 1976.
Mao Zedong lived for 86 years.
After Mao’s Death, Li Zhisui shifted from China to the USA in 1988, where he wrote a 663-page long memoir about Mao Zedong.
He portrayed Mao as selfish, licentiousness, relentless toadying, and cutthroat political intrigue.
Dr. Li said in an interview in Chicago that Mao seemed easygoing and easy to contact, but when you share a long time with him, you get to know his real face — a merciless tyrant who used to crush everybody who disobeyed him.
Dr. Li focused very less on the geopolitical approaches, revelations, and diplomatic history of the Maoist epoch.
There was no mention of the failed attempt of a coup by Defense Minister Lin Biao, in 1971, no mention of Mao’s role in the Korean war, or any diplomatic argument about the USA.
Dr. Li’s book overall showcased most about the private life of Mao.
Jiang Qing, Mao’s third wife later became the head of the radical faction known as the Gang of Four. She was portrayed as a flatterer and a hypochondriac.
The other major figures of China at the time were seen as sycophantic toward Mao. Mao was such a man, who had not got any friends, and he did not like to have one.
Mao’s image in western countries is considered to be very sophisticated.
Further Dr. Li writes about Zhou Enlai(The statesman who served as the first premier of the People’s Republic of China).
Mao saw everybody as a subject, a slave.
Zhou Enlai was actually a slave. He kept and wanted everyone to be subservient.
“Whenever I saw Zhou with Mao, Zhou always acted like a servant to his master. Many people think, that Zhou protected many people, he was such a good man, but everything was happening under Mao’s order.”, Dr. Li wrote in his book.
Dr. Li also used to teach English to Mao. He was close to Mao and he experience everything very closely — whatever was happening and all political and diplomatic strategies and war.
Dr. Li writes various details on Mao’s very active sex life. Mao’s sex life is discussed in many other memoirs also, especially those concerning Mao’s imperial way of life.
Mao’s residence and swimming pool, his chronic insomnia and the odd hours that he kept, and even his surroundings of sycophants are mentioned in many other books. But nobody has portrayed his sexual life so extensively as Dr. Li did.
Professor Nathan said that Mao was so insulated that he even was responsible for many disasters because he wanted his fantasies to become reality.
Sexual licenses in the nation were prohibited for everybody. And after that, the most salacious in Mao’s life was his sexual life.
Dr. Li writes that Mao had an undescended testicle — and he also suffered from impotence.
Mao married thrice and had several children but in midlife for some undetermined reasons, he became infertile. “So, I’ve become a eunuch, haven’t I,” Dr. Li recalls Mao said after hearing the report.
As per Dr. Li, Mao used women for three purposes:
1. The first and most important for his pleasure. At, Mao’s residence, more often dancing parties were organized. This was the time when ballroom dances were deemed to be bourgeois and an act of discouragement. Young women or Communist party leader women whom Mao’s used to select according to their looks and talent to dance. Among them, Mao used to select one or more to get entertained in either his bedroom, or in guesthouses, or in his special train, wherever he stayed.
2. The second reason was his political strategy. As Dr. Li remembers the Husband of Mao’s girlfriend, for example, was a subordinate of Lin Biao, and she reported back to Mao about the conspiracy against him.
3. Finally the third reason was, that Mao believed that sexual activity leads to longevity. He firmly believed that pursuing sex was not for pleasure but to extend his life.
The year 1960 was the height of the cultural revolution in China. Till this time, Mao had no medical condition or any complaints about impotence.
Mao and his wife Jiang Qing(an actress, politician, and revolutionary figure) were sexually estranged, but Mao also loved to bring young women to his bed.
Gradually, the number of those young women increased while their average ages declined as Mao wanted to add some years to his life according to the imperial formula.
Dr. Li says — he was ordered many times to treat Mao’s young sexual partners, he treated a woman with trichomonas vaginalis, which was sexually transmitted.
Dr. Li treated many others who have got sexual diseases.
Dr. Li writes that those young women were proud to be infected because the illness was transmitted by Mao the supreme leader. For them, this disease was more like a badge of honor, a testimony of their close relations with the chairman.
Mao knew he is carrying a disease but did not get treated. When one day Dr. Li suggested Mao take some antibiotics to protect his sexual partners from sexual transmission diseases, Mao said if it is not hurting me, then it doesn’t matter, why be so serious about it?
Mao lived without looking at the clock, whenever he liked to sleep, he sleeps, and whenever he likes to wake, he’ll woke.
He remained locked in his bathroom for weeks at a time.
The Hygiene:
Dr. Li further stated in his book that Mao never took bath. His bodyguard used to wipe his body, his hands, and his face with a hot towel.
Mao never brushed his teeth, his teeth were coated with a green patina.
Mao’s habit was adopted by many Chinese after morning tea they used to eat tea leaves. When Dr. Li suggested Mao brush his teeth, Mao’s reply was a tiger never brushes his teeth.
Further, Dr. Li added that Mao never said anything about people’s suffering to me. Mao did not the meaning of regret so, he deleted this word from his dictionary.
Dr. Li said about how he had survived with Mao.
He said once Mao said to him that you can play with the dragon, but be careful to touch a single spot on the dragon’s neck, which is very sensitive, if you touch it, you are done. Mao was that dragon.
Dr. Li disobeyed his own conscience and worked for Mao.
Authentication:
Is Dr. Li’s memoir authentic?
There is much debate upon this, that he wrote his book to get publicity as he had mentioned so many allegations about Mao.
But he came with a lot of photographs of Mao which were clicked on various occasions. He included many photographs in his book. This raises a question for all to ponder.
After all, Dr. Li’s allegations against Mao haven’t been completely disproved.
One more journalist Jonathan Mirsky brought a historian’s expertise to many decades of writing about China.
He also claimed such incidents to be true, which Dr. Li alleged about Mao. He wrote that in 1997, he interviewed a middle-aged woman Mrs. Chen, who said that Zedong liked her when she was dancing.
He called her and began having sex with her in 1962 when she was just 14. Mao was passionate about an endless supply of young women.
Jonathan Mirsky also claimed that Mao and the top leaders, including Zhou and Deng enjoyed sex with teenagers.
Whatever the truth may be, one thing is for sure — the Chinese Government is still supporting Mao’s communist legacy, and we may never know the real truth about these allegations.
If China was a democratic country, because of freedom of information we would have gotten the facts.
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References:
Dr. Li’s Book: The Private Life of Chairman Mao
https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/news/mao-zedong-unbridled-philanderer
https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/02/world/the-tyrant-mao-as-told-by-his-doctor.html