Meaning of Yen-an | Babel Free

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Noun. [B1]

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“Chiang, on the other hand, relied on the new relationship with the Allies (since his was the recognized government of China) in an attempt⟳ to improve⟳ his position against Yen-an.”

“The main force⟳ of the Communist Army broke through the Nationalist cordon and fled by a circuitous route through the wilderness of Southwest China to the northwest province of Shensi where they established a new Soviet-type government at Yen-an.”

“In 1935 the CCP's defeated army retreated to Yen-an in the northern part of Shanhsi Province. This retreat was called the Long March⟳, during which tens of thousands of marchers died.”

“The annihilation campaigns proved failures and the Chinese Communists escaped to begin⟳ their epic Long March⟳, a trek of a year's duration (1934-35) to the northwest to Yen-an (Yan'an) north of Sian. En route, at Tsunyi (Zunyi), out of contact⟳ with Moscow, they elected Mao Tse-tung as their leader and accepted his Sinified version of Marxism, Mao Tse-tung Thought, as their ideology. The remnants of the party, on arrival in Yen-an, lived in caves, licked their wounds, and set⟳ about builidng a party and army structure⟳ based on Mao's view⟳ that the leading revolutionary class in China was the peasantry.”

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