Letter to Chen Jisheng
(August 29, 1950)

Source: Shuxin, p. 366.

According to the source, Chen Jisheng was a middle school teacher who had been
Midding the history of minority nationalities in China.

Mr, Jisheng:'
I have received and read your book and am greatly satisfied. The scholar-
Which you have undertaken is on a subject that I myself have not studied,
Medics make any comments. The only thing is that I feel that unless one
hie (history, in this case} Chinese history, with the methods of Marxism,
Would be wasting one’s energy in vain and will not achieve good results.

KAR EL

130 | MAO ZEDONG

This is something I hope you will attend to.

In response, and with my respects,
Mao Zedong
August 29
Note

1 See text Nov. 17, 1949, note 2, for this usage.