To Wang Zimu1
(March 2, 1945)
Comrade Zimu:
I have read your letter. Welcome back. In the past, you did much work of benefit
to the Party and the people, and I hope you will continue to do so starting today.
You have already corrected and understood the mistakes from a moment of
foolishness, and they are past. Don’t dwell on them all the time. Perhaps, having
suffered a setback, you will now make great progress, and then the mistake will
turn into something beneficial.
Comradely salutations!
Mao Zedong
Notes
Our source for this document is Mao Zedong shuxin xuanji, p. 260, where it is reproduced from the
manuscript.
1. Wang Zimu (1895–1969) joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1925. After the outbreak of the War of
Resistance, he worked in the United Front in Chongqing, Wuhan, and elsewhere. He returned to Yan’an in
February 1945 and served as a member of the senior staff at the headquarters of the Eighteenth Army Group.