Mao is certainly a more interesting figure than were many tyrants – a poet, an intellectual, a student of history as well as a serial philanderer, who, according to his doctor, Li Zhisui, liked to swim in water, not bathe in it.
Ciertamente, Mao es una figura más interesante que muchos otros tiranos: un poeta, un intelectual, un estudioso de la historia así como un mujeriego que, según su doctor Li Zhisui, gustaba de nadar en el agua, no de bañarse en ella.