nist Party in 1927.

To Zhou Enlai and Dong Biwu

(March 1, 1941)

Zhou and Dong:

Please subscribe to each of the following daily newspapers for us, starting March
1: Zhongyang ribao (Central Daily), Saodang bao (Clean Sweep), Xin shubao (New
Sichuan News), Xinmin bao (New People's News), Shishi xinbao (The China Times),
Xin Zhongguo ribao (New China Daily), Huaguang ribao (Light of China Daily),
Guojia shehuibao (National Socialist News), and various Yunnan newspapers. In
addition, please purchase for us as soon as possible the following publications
from the Chinese National Economic Research Institute on Zhongsi Road in
Chongqing: Reference Materials on the Sichuan Economy, The Economy in Guizhou,
Japanese Work on the Chinese Economy, The Military Force of the Various Powers,
Yearbook on the Chinese and Foreign Economies (1931 and 1940 editions), and
Chinese and Foreign Economic Digest (all issues from the beginning).
Please ask the said institute to send these publications directly to us. Please also
send by registered mail the copy of the Commercial Press edition of The Question
of Industrial Capital in China, which we asked you to purchase for us previously.

Mao Zedong

Our source for this letter is Mao Zedong shuxin xuanji, pp. 168–69, where it is reproduced
from a copy in the Central Archives.