To Huang Qisheng1
(December 29, 1945)
Esteemed Mr. Huang:
I read your new poems and deeply felt your great kindness. Please extend my
regards to Mr. Qian [Zheng].2 I send you best wishes on your sixty-seventh birthday as well as good health in the New Year. I am enclosing several newspaper
articles that [Wang] Ruofei3 sent me. Please send them back after reading them.
Among them, the rantings of the Guomindang are as laughable as the racket of
crows and cicadas. They are also enclosed for your perusal.
Mao Zedong
December 29
Our source for this text is Mao Zedong shuxin xuanji, p. 264, where it is reproduced
from Mao’s handwritten manuscript.
1.  Huang Qisheng (1879–1946, native of Guizhou) was an educator and the uncle of
Wang Ruofei, mentioned later in the letter.
2.  Qian Zheng (1884–1968, born in Fenghua, Fengtian) was a counsellor on the
Shaanxi-Gansu-NIngxia Border Area Counsel.
3.  Wang Ruofei was secretary of the Chongqing Work Committee responsible for
the daily work of the southern bureaus. He accompanied Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai to
Chongqing for the negotiations on August 28, 1945.
DOI:  10.4324/9781315719511-88