Lin Ke:
For Purchase
Commentary to Lin Ke on the Sixth Volume of the “Literary Heritage Supplement” [1]
(June 4, 1958)
Please buy one copy of “Volume Six” for me; I would be most grateful.
Mao Zedong
June 4th
Sichuan
This commentary was written beside the table of contents of the Sixth Volume of the “Literary Heritage Supplement,” which appeared in Issue 211 of the Literature and Heritage column of the Guangming Daily on June 1, 1958. The Sixth Volume included the following articles: Xu Jiarui’s “The Structure of the ‘Nine Songs’”; Chen Chaobi’s “A Discussion Concerning the Author and Content of ‘Summoning the Soul’”; Jin Dehou’s “On the Intruded Passages in ‘Li Sao’”; Ren Erbei’s “Harmony and Repetitive Phrases in Ancient Lyrics”; Zheng Mengtong’s “The Ideological and Artistic Aspects of Han Fu”; Deng Tanzhou’s “On Han Yu’s Poetry”; Chen Youqin’s “The Main Characteristics of Bai Juyi’s Poetic Art”; Liu Kaiyang’s “On Meng Jiao”; Chen Yixian’s “A Preliminary Study of Wang Wei’s Life and Deeds”; Ma Kedan’s “Some Questions Regarding Li Bai’s Ideology”; Mai Chaoshu’s “On the Issues of Li Bai’s Surname, Hometown, and Ethnic Origin”; Fan Xing’s “An Examination of the Allegorical Meaning and Date of Composition of ‘Difficult Road to Shu’”; Hu Guorui’s “On the Artistic Style of Wen Tingyun’s Ci Poetry”; Wu Zeyu’s “A Brief Discussion of Xin Qiji’s Ci Poetry”; Pu Jiangqing’s posthumous work “On the Novel”; Qi Fare’s “An Exploration of the Thematic Ideas in the Zaju Play ‘Autumn at the Han Court’”; Chen Zhongfan’s “A Reconsideration of the Evaluation of Gao Ming’s ‘The Story of the Lute’”; Nie Shiqiao’s “A Brief Discussion of ‘The Peach Blossom Fan’”; Zhang Pei’s “National Ideology in Certain Works of ‘Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio’”; and Zhang Hongxun’s “An Attempted Discussion of the Author, Period, and Sources of Material for ‘The Golden Lotus.’” Lin Ke was at that time the secretary of Mao Zedong’s office.