Letter to Tian Jiaying on Compiling a Poetry Collection
(December 5 and 6, 1963)

Comrade Tian Jiaying:
The poem "Wind and Rain over the Bell Mountains" [2] might be suitable for inclusion in the poetry collection [3]. Please discuss it at the meeting and decide accordingly.
The lyric "On This Tiny Globe" [4] might also be suitable for inclusion in the collection. I also request the comrades to discuss it.
As for the remaining anti-revisionist poems and lyrics, apart from a few that may be included, it is advisable to delay their release for the time being.
"The Ode to the Eighth Company" [5] should be printed separately and circulated internally, not included in the collection.

Mao Zedong
December 5

[1] Tian Jiaying was then deputy director of the Political Research Office of the CPC Central Committee and Mao Zedong’s secretary.
[2] This refers to the seven-character regulated verse "The People’s Liberation Army Captures Nanjing," written by Mao Zedong in April 1949.
[3] This refers to the collection of Mao Zedong’s poems then being compiled, published by the People’s Literature Publishing House in December 1963 under the title *Poems of Chairman Mao*.
[4] This refers to the lyric "The River Is Red: In Reply to Comrade Guo Moruo," written by Mao Zedong on January 9, 1963.
[5] "The Ode to the Eighth Company" is a miscellaneous-style poem written by Mao Zedong on August 1, 1963, in praise of the Good Eighth Company on Nanjing Road in Shanghai.

Letter to Tian Jiaying on Compiling a Poetry Collection

Comrade Tian Jiaying:
Today or tomorrow, a meeting will be held to discuss issues concerning the poems. I have now made further deletions and revisions. Please ask Comrade Kang Sheng [1] to preside, offer opinions, and submit them for my consideration and decision.

Mao Zedong
5 a.m., December 6

[1] Kang Sheng was then an alternate member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, a secretary of the Central Secretariat, and deputy head of the Central Cultural and Educational Group.