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Mao Zedong AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT NOTES ON CLASSICAL CHINESE LITERATURE, including the titles or first lines of poems by Li Bai ('Difficulty of the Shu Road') and Du Fu (‘Ascend’ and ‘Tallest Buildings Inside the City of Baidi’), a quotation in praise of Du Fu by the contemporary writer Guo Moruo, quotations from another Tang poet, Bai Juyi, and also from the Han dynasty poem 'Ling Du Fu', and the title of a work ('Zi Yang Gang Mu') by the scholar Zhu Xi, which Mao associates with Daoism, 9 pages, text on rectos only, eight in pencil and one in red crayon, three of the manuscripts with explanatory notes by Professor Di Lu subscribed in pencil, in Chinese, various sizes (four leaves 265 x 190mm, four leaves 210 x 150mm, and one leaf 155 x 95mm), 1975, staining to two leaves [with:] Prof. Di Lu, autograph manuscript notes of her meetings with Mao, recording their discussions of classical poetry, Tang Dynasty literature (with his particular love of Li Bai), Odes of the Han dynasty, linguistics, and his contempt for the traditional curriculum and the elite study of classical culture ("...We need to promote modern Chinese [writing]..."), in Chinese, 7 pages, folio (265 x 195mm), text on rectos only, 26 July 1975; [also with:] Poems by Sa Du Ci. [n.p., n.d.], small folio, blue wrappers, INSCRIBED BY MAO'S WIFE JIANG QING in pencil in Chinese ("for Chairman to read"), and a small bundle of typescripts and press cuttings relating to Di Lu and Mao