Inscription for the Masthead of the Xinhua News Agency’s Professional Journal *Tongxun*[1]

(December 1939)

Tongxun

[1] On December 1, 1939, the inaugural issue of *Tongxun* was published. It was the first professional journalism journal published during the Yan’an period, and its readers were correspondents in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region. Before the founding of *Tongxun*, the Communications Section, in the name of Xinhua News Agency, wrote a brief letter to Mao Zedong requesting him to inscribe the masthead. Mao Zedong soon wrote the two large characters “Tongxun” on xuan paper, providing three copies in one set for selection and use.