Walking a Tightrope

This title tells the compelling story of Dr Wu Jieping (1917-2011), selected as personal physician to China's leaders by Premier Zhou Enlai and Madame Mao. As one of China's most prestigious Physicians, Wu developed from a former style intellectual into a national leader of the new China. He established his global reputation in the field of Urology with significant medical achievements. This book goes behind the scenes during China's most destructive and turbulent period, the Cultural Revolution, characterized by Dr Wu as cultural extinction. It takes us behind the rice-paper walls and the bamboo curtains to reveal the secret facts poisoning relationships between Mao Zedong and his Premier, Zhou Enlai, manoeuvred by Mao's wife, Jiang Qing.