Revised Manifesto for Hunan on the Occasion
of the Publication of Issue No. 7147 (September
1919)
Beginning with issue no. 7, the guiding principles of this periodical will be:
1. to criticize society,
2. to reform thought,
3. to introduce [the new] learning, and
4. to discuss problems.
From issue no. 7, those associated with this periodical will bend all their efforts
to act in accordance with these principles. Naturally we will not be concerned with
“success or failure, or whether things go smoothly or not.” Still less will we pay attention
to any power (authority)148 whatsoever. For our credo is: “Anything may be sacrificed
save principle, which can absolutely not be sacrificed.”
the primary school was forced to close because of classroom and financial difficulties. In response, the
Students’ Society of First Normal School wrote a long petition to Governor Zhang Jingyao calling for
government support for the primary school. It was published in the Dagongbao on September 20, 1919,
and the next day Mao wrote this article.

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146 Liaobude.
147 Presumably, the mysterious aggressor was a policeman, rickshaw owner, or other person having
authority over the hero, whom he could not venture to resist.
148 As indicated in his letter of September 5, 1919, to Li Jinxi, Mao assumed the editorship of this
weekly with issue no. 7. Like the Xiang River Review, it was soon closed down by Zhang Jingyao.