Letter to Tian Jiaying[1]
(April 16, 1951)

Comrade Jiaying:

Please send these nine pieces to Comrade Chen Boda[2] for review and then typesetting with corrections. Among them, four pieces[3]—the talk with the British journalist, the talk with the Central News Agency and other journalists, A Most Important Policy, and Revolutionary Forces of the Whole World, Unite—I have already revised according to the original copies. Please correct them accordingly. I need not read the four manuscripts newly delivered here.

All of the above, as well as the large batch reviewed for the second time yesterday, may be sent for translation—except for one piece among them, namely The Struggle in the Jinggang Mountains, which please send for another reading.

Mao Zedong
April 16

[1] Tian Jiaying, then secretary to Mao Zedong, participated in the editing of the Selected Works of Mao Zedong.
[2] Chen Boda, then Deputy Director of the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee, participated in the editing of the Selected Works of Mao Zedong.
[3] These four articles were later all included in the Selected Works of Mao Zedong. The first two were included in Volume II of the Selected Works of Mao Zedong, titled “Talk with the British Journalist James Bertram” and “Talk with the Correspondents of the Central News Agency, the Saotang Pao and the Hsin Min Pao.” “A Most Important Policy” was included in Volume III of the Selected Works of Mao Zedong. The fourth was included in Volume IV of the Selected Works of Mao Zedong, titled “Revolutionary Forces of the Whole World, Unite, Fight Against Imperialist Aggression!”