Inscription for the Inaugural Issue of *Border Region Children*[1]

(June 1938)

Children, arise! Learn to be citizens of a free and liberated China, learn the methods to strive for freedom and liberation from the oppression of Japanese imperialism, and turn yourselves into masters of the new era.

Mao Zedong

[1] This is an inscription written by Mao Zedong for the inaugural issue of *Border Region Children*, a publication founded by the Education Department of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region Government.