To Fan Changjiang1
(March 29, 1937, at midnight)

Mr. Changjiang:

I'm extremely sorry to have neglected you that time! We have all read your
article,2 for which we offer deep thanks!
I am sending for your reference a copy of my conversation [with Smedley]
and a copy of the address for the memorial at the Yellow Emperor's tomb.3
Please have them published when possible. It is my fervent hope that you will
favor me often with your advice so as to make up for my various deficiencies.

Respectfully wishing you good luck in your writing!

Your younger brother, Mao Zedong

We have translated this text from Mao Zedong ji. Bujuan, Vol. 5, p. 63, where it is
reproduced from Xin Zhonghua bao, March 23, 1937.
We have translated this letter from Mao Zedong shuxin xuanji, pp. 102-3, where it is
reproduced from the manuscript original.
1. Fan Changjiang (1909-1970), a native of Sichuan, had been a correspondent for
the Tianjin Dagongbao since 1934. Following the Xi'an Incident, he had been sent to
Xi'an and Yan'an to report on developments. On his return from the Northwest in 1939,
he joined the Chinese Communist Party.
2. The reference is to the report which Fan had sent to the Dagongbao about the
Chinese Communist Party's stand in favor of resistance to Japan.
3. See above, the text of Mao's interview with Agnes Smedley, dated March 1, 1937,
and below, the "Elegiac Address in Honor of the Yellow Emperor," dated April 5, 1937.