November 13
Comrade Zhou Yang:
(1) The inscription [2] has been carried out as instructed, but it should not be printed for distribution elsewhere, because the tasks of other places are not all in the countryside. (2) When you set out to participate in the land reform, you may find some time for a discussion. At present, I have no time.

Mao Zedong

[1] Zhou Yang, then Deputy Director of the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee.
[2] Refers to Mao Zedong’s inscription “Face the Countryside” for the cultural troupe of the Chuxian Prefecture in the Wanbei (Northern Anhui) District.

Inscription for the Cultural Troupe of the Chuxian Prefecture
(November 13, 1951)
Face the countryside.