Conversation with Tong Guirong[1]

(June 1936)

Sister Liu, are you feeling a bit better?

Revolutionary comrades are like brothers. Everyone calls you Sister Liu, why can’t I?

Without the northern Shaanxi revolutionary base area established by Liu Zhidan and them, we wouldn’t even have a place to set foot!

[1] This is part of Mao Zedong’s conversation with Tong Guirong, wife of Liu Zhidan.