Letter to Gao Zhi [1]
(June 19, 1958)
Comrade Gao Zhi:
Please find a copy of the January 1958 issue of “New Construction” this morning; also, could you obtain all six issues of “Philosophical Research” for the year 1957 (issue No. 4 has already arrived)? I would be very grateful.
Mao Zedong
7:00 A.M., June 19
It would be even better if you could also locate all issues of “New Construction” for both 1956 and 1957. Furthermore, please secure the two articles by Ma Te and Zhou Gucheng that were published in the People’s Daily (on the 21st); they are with Jiang Qing. Could you have them brought to me this morning?
[1] Gao Zhi was at the time the secretary of Mao Zedong’s office.
[2] These refer to Ma Te’s article “On the Discussion of Logical Problems,” published in the People’s Daily on April 15, 1958, and Zhou Gucheng’s article “Six Discussions on Formal Logic and Dialectics—A Brief Reply to Ma Te,” published in the People’s Daily on June 14, 1958.