Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) will hold an exhibition featuring the
personal letters of late Chairman Mao Zedong and other Communist
Party leaders, according to sources in Taipei.
The exhibit includes a letter written by Mao in 1924, to the
late Communist Lin Boqu and KMT member Peng Sumin, both of whom had
participated in the KMT's First National Congress which was held
that year and marked the start of cooperation between the two
parties.
Together with Mao's letter, those of a group of Chinese
revolutionaries including Chen Duxiu, Li Dazhao, Hu Shi, Luo
Jialun, Fu Sinian, Sun Yat-sen, Dai Jitao and Hu Hanmin will also
be displayed.
The items to be shown also include a batch of magazines from
1919, including the New Youth, New Tide, Consciousness, and the
Daily of the Republic of China.
Taipei sources said the exhibition are activities sponsored by
the KMT to commemorate the May 4th Movement, a patriotic campaign
launched in 1919 by a group of young Chinese students and
intellectuals to fight imperialism and feudalism.
The movement lead to ideological emancipation and the advent of
China's new culture, a turning-point in China's history.
(Xinhua News Agency April 30, 2006)
