Personally Signed and Sealed Letter
of Introduction for Wang Feng and
Other Representatives
of the Chinese Communist Party
(July 15, 1936)
For your inspection, honorable sirs:
As our country is in an extremely precarious position, under attack by Japanese
bandits, it is incumbent upon us to arise in unison, forming a solid anti-Japanese
front, and fight for the general policy of defending Beiping and Tianjin, defending Hebei and Chahar, Shanxi and Suiyuan, and Shandong, and battling our
enemies to the last drop of blood. As we, your younger brothers, hold in utmost
esteem [X][X] your honorable resolve to resist Japan, these comrades have traveled to Hebei to pay you our respects. Please be so kind as to receive them for an
exchange of ideas and opinions, and to favor us with your instructions, in the
hope of driving out our powerful enemies and together saving the country from
the peril of ruin. What I write fails to convey the depth of my concern and
agitation. I hereby respectfully extend to you
Salutations of the National War of
Resistance against Japan.
Mao Zedong

We have translated this letter from Mao Zedong ji. Bujuan, Vol. 9, p. 357, where it is
reproduced from a collection published in China in 1984.
1. Wang Feng (1910) was a native of Shaanxi. He joined the revolution in 1926,
and had occupied a number of Party posts in North and Northwest China, in particular that
of special representative of the Party Central Committee to the Northwest armies.