Letter to Zhou Yang[1]

(January 21, 1940)

Comrade Zhou Yang:

Although the article can be considered finished, it still needs to gather opinions for final revision. It will take another two or three days before I can deliver the final revised draft to you for printing. I have kept you waiting far too long! I am now sending you a first draft. Please review, correct, and give instructions, and return it to me at your earliest convenience!

Mao Zedong

January 21

[1] Zhou Yang (1908–1989), a native of Yiyang, Hunan Province. He went to Yan’an in September 1937 and successively served as Director of the Education Department of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, President of the Lu Xun Academy of Literature and Art, President of Yan’an University, and Editor-in-Chief of The Literary Front.