Letter to Ouyang Shan and Cao Ming
(April 13, 1942)
Comrades Ouyang Shan and Cao Ming:
Please be so good as to collect the negative responses to the guiding principles for
literature and art that we discussed the day before yesterday.1 If you get some,
please let me know as soon as possible!
Mao Zedong
Notes
Our source for this text is Mao Zedong shuxin xuanji, p. 194, where it is reproduced from a photographic
copy of the original letter.
1. See the April 9, 1942, text above. Mao wrote an additional letter to Ouyang and Cao, the text of April 17,
1942. See below.