With a deep love for the people, sincerely serving the people, bending his back to the task until his dying day—this is the spirit of Mr. Zou Taofen and this is why he deeply touches us.
Our source for this document is Nianpu, Vol. 2, pp. 558–59, which indicates that Mao drafted this text for Jiefang ribao’s special issue commemorating Zou Taofen.
1. Zou Taofen (1895–1944) was a noted liberal journalist in Republican China and a leader of the anti-Japanese National Salvation Movement in the 1930s.