The author of My Step-Mother: Wife and Political Commissar is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and the daughter of Li Rui - a Chinese Communist Party veteran. She boycotted her father's funeral, calling it an improper tribute to a man who once worked for Mao Zedong but later became a fierce critic of the regime.The book tells the inside story about how China's leaders after Mao control Communist Party's regime and even monitor their own seniors through their spouses.《我有这样一个继母》的作者是斯坦福大学胡佛研究所的客座研究员，是中国共产党元老李锐的女儿，她抵制了李锐的葬礼，称这是对曾任毛泽东秘书，但后来成为毛政权激烈批评者的不敬。这本书讲述了一个里面的故事，讲述了后毛泽东时代的中共统治者如何维持它的政权，甚至通过配偶监视自己党的前辈。