China, the battle over Mao’s secretary’s diaries

BEIJING – Throughout his life, every day, Li Rui wrote. Telling in his notes and diaries his first steps in ’37 within the Party during the war against the Japanese, the revolution, his days alongside Mao Zedong, from ’58, as his personal secretary and the 8 years he spent he did in Qincheng prison – the “Chinese Bastille”, reserved for disgraced officers – for daring to criticize the actions and policies of the Great Helmsman.