# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/li-zhisui
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:52:48.956Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/li-zhisui"
name: "Li Zhisui"
slug: "li-zhisui"
description: "Li Zhisui was a Chinese American physician and Mao Zedong's personal doctor and confidant. He was born in Beijing, Republican China in 1919. He studied medicine during World War II at the Medical School of West China Union University. After emigrating to the United States, he wrote a biography of Mao entitled The Private Life of Chairman Mao, in which he described Mao as selfish, cruel, having a craving for young women, and poor personal hygiene. The biography was based on his recollection of journals he had kept, and later found expedient to destroy, while a doctor to Mao."
tagline: "Chinese physician (1919–1995)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/25/Li_Zhisui_pic.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1919-12-30"
deathDate: "1995-02-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.88
  momentum:             2.229334817701086
  historical:           10.58303466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%8E%E5%BF%97%E7%BB%A5"
    title: "李志绥"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%89"
    title: "لى زيسوى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%DB%8C_%DA%98%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%88%DB%8C"
    title: "لی ژیسوی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Zhisui"
    title: "Li Zhisui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Zhisui"
    title: "Li Zhisui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Zhisui"
    title: "Li Zhisui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Zhisui"
    title: "Li Zhisui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%8E%E5%BF%97%E7%B6%8F"
    title: "李志綏"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Zhisui"
    title: "Li Zhisui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Zhisui"
    title: "Li Zhisui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Zhisui"
    title: "Li Zhisui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BD_Ch%C3%AD_Th%E1%BB%8Fa"
    title: "Lý Chí Thỏa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q492897"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump