Remark at Small Group Leaders Session at the Second Plenum of the Eighth Central Committee (Excerpt)
(December 1956)

Source: Kau & Leung, The Writings of Mao Zedong 1949-1976, Vol. II
Pages 218-218
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very much to read Mr. X’s writing in the chuci style.2 Please convey my regards
to my dear friend Jiang Zhuru and to Mr. Cao Zigu,3 and thank him [Cao] for the
gift of his poem and the history of Nanyue.4
I wish you peace.
Mao Zedong
December 29
Notes

I. “‘Dongyuan’’ is another zi, or honorific name, of Zhou. See text Oct. 15, 1949, vol.
I, note 1. The source also indicates that Zhou was at this time deputy director of the
Department of Education of Hunan province.

2. The source gives no indication of who Mr. X might be. For an explanation of the chuci
style, see text Aug. 16, 1959(3), notes 2 and 3.

3. See text May 1, 1955, vol. I, source note, and text Oct. 4, 1955, vol. I, note 3,
respectively.

4, The term here is Nanyue zhi, and it could be the title of a book of geography or history,
although in the text it is not presented in the way in which a book title is conventionally
presented. The term z/i could refer to a historical description of either an object or a place,
and it is often translated as ‘‘gazetteer.’’ The term nanyue, literally *‘southern range,”’ refers
to the Hengshan mountain range in Hunan province, which runs between the Xiang River
and the Zi River.