Annotations on Feng Xuefeng’s Essay “A Self-Criticism of the Mistakes I Made at the Literary Gazette” [1] (November 1954) 1. Is it limited to classical literature? It should be said that he has always paid close attention and possessed a keen understanding, with a very sensitive instinct. [2] 2. Not the slightest bit has been lost; he remains highly sensitive. [3] 3. It is not a matter of “certain” aspects, but rather of having sunk deep into the mire of bourgeois ideology. This is not a question of “lack”; it is an anti-Marxist issue. [4] 4. It should be described as conscious.