Premier, Comrade Jianying [2]:
Please consider assigning Guo Huaruo a job. I also hope you will revise the preface to Sun
Tzu and write a critical and instructive preface. Please inform Guo of this letter.
Mao Zedong
73, 8. 4

[1] Guo Huaruo, formerly the First Deputy Commander of the Nanjing Military Region of the
Chinese People's Liberation Army. He was wrongly criticized during the Cultural Revolution.
On July 20, 1973, he wrote to Mao Zedong, saying that he "wrote a seriously erroneous
preface to Sun Tzu's Art of War", "arbitrarily exaggerated Sun Tzu and modernized it", and
"made revisions to it as soon as possible". The letter also asked Mao Zedong for a job
assignment. In the same year, Guo Huaruo was appointed Vice President of the Academy of
Military Sciences of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
 [2] Premier refers to Zhou Enlai. Jianying, that is, Ye Jianying, was then Vice Chairman and
Secretary-General of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China, and
was in charge of the daily work of the Military Commission.