Meaning of Yenan | Babel Free

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Noun. [B1]

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“THE Communists were all very proud of their new "capital" at Yenan, and veterans from Pao An were always asking me what I thought of the improvements since my last visit. The question at first seemed pure irony. Nearly every building inside the walls was in ruin, and Yenan was in fact the only example I have seen of complete demolition of a sizable town by air bombardment alone.”

“After making the Long March with the First Front Army, Lo was a political instructor by 1937 at the Anti-Japanese Military and Political Academy (K'ang-ta) where Lin Piao was the president. Concurrently, Lo was director of the Political Department for the Garrison Corps at the Communist capital in Yenan.”

“Back in 1939 when Chiang Ching went to Yenan and turned Mao into an infatuated man, his comrades were all very unhappy. As a movie star, she had been known not so much by her screen roles as by her private life with a number of men. Besides, Mao already had a former Ho Tzu-cheng as his wife.”

“Had it not been for the Japanese militarists' attack on Manchuria in September, 1931, and the subsequent invasion of North China, which led to the outbreak of major hostilities in July, 1937, the Chinese government forces would have cleaned up in no time at all the Communist remnants in and around Yenan in Shensi Province.”

“Davies recommended dispatching military and political personnel to act as a liasion with the Communists in Yenan.”

“In 1941 Ho Chi Minh travelled from the Soviet Union to Vietnam, stopping over at the CCP camp in Yenan before creating his own base along the Sino-Vietnamese border.”

“The most important fact never to forget is the Party’s murderous history. The Communists retreated to Yenan in the 1930s and let the Chinese nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek do most of the fighting against Japan in World War II. Mao then won the civil war in 1949 and proceeded like all Communists to purge opponents and take total control.”

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