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Mar 10, 2023 · The doctor revealed that the dictator never brushed his teeth, which turned green. His infected gums gushed pus. When encouraged to brush his not-at-all pearly greens, Mao growled, "Does a tiger brush his teeth?" The chairman preferred to rinse his mouth with tea and chew leaves like peasants did.
Oct 2, 1994 · Mao's habit, shared by many peasants in China, was to wash his mouth in the morning with tea and then to eat the tea leaves. When, once, Dr. Li suggested to him that he should use a toothbrush...
Mar 1, 2017 · Mao’s teeth were so covered in plaque that one person described them as looking like they had been “painted with green paint.” His gums were infected. “When I touched the gums,” his doctor wrote, “ pus oozed out .”
Feb 19, 1995 · Mao Tse-tung continues to haunt the collective consciousness of the Chinese even now, almost 20 years after his death. Writings on him tend to reflect China’s rapidly changing political...
Mao Tse-tung (Mao Zedong) was born of Chinese peasant stock in the twilight years of China's imperial reign, which had lasted for more than 2 000 years. He lived to become paramount ruler over a quarter of the global population, and to establish the world's largest Communist regime.
Feb 20, 1995 · 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 ...
Jan 23, 2020 · Mao Zedong: The Communist revolutionary and founding father of the People's Republic of China. The man who dragged "The Middle Kingdom" kicking and screaming into his particular brand of The Future, which involved plenty of actual kicking and screaming.
May 5, 2021 · In 1955, Chairman Mao Zedong formed a subcommittee to find methods to stop the spread of schistosomiasis, an infectious disease caused by parasitic freshwater flatworms. The subcommittee’s original plan was to eradicate schistosomiasis in the provinces of Yangtze Basin.
Nov 6, 1994 · Mao never let a toothbrush near his teeth, preferring in peasant custom to rinse them daily in green tea. "A tiger never brushes his teeth," the Great Helmsman loftily explained in resisting...
Dec 11, 2003 · Lucien Pye of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), who wrote a psychological study of Mao (“Mao Tse-tung, the Man in the Leader,” 1976), offered the surprising information that the man who condemned bourgeois individualism spent hours as a young man reading the works of Western authors in a search for personal ...
