Letter to Ouyang Shan and Cao Ming1
April 17, 1942
Comrades Ouyang Shan and Cao Ming:
I have received and carefully read your letter of April 15. I cannot answer your
questions yet; I must study it first. It will be very good if you are collecting
materials. Collect both positive and negative materials, and it would be best if
you could give me a brief introduction. I do not know whether the comrades in
the Literature and Arts Research Office will have time to do this.
Best wishes!
Mao Zedong
Notes
Our source for this text is Mao Zedong ji. Bujuan, Vol. 9, where it is taken from Zhonggong zhongyang
wenxian yanjiushi, ed., Wenxian he yanjiu, 1982 huibian ben.
1. For information on Ouyang and Cao, see Mao’s first letter in this series, in text for April 9, 1942, above.