Yen-an

From Mandarin 延安 (Yán'ān) Wade–Giles romanization: Yen²-an¹.[1]

• enPR: yěnʹänʹ

Yen-an

1. Alternative form of Yan'an
   • 1963, Ping-chia Kuo, China (The Modern World)‎, Oxford University Press, page 69:

     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.

   • 1967, Frederic H. Chaffee, Area Handbook for Communist China‎, Government Printing Office, page 51:

     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.

   • 2000, George C. Y. Wang, Taiwan (World Conflicts and Confrontations)‎, volume 3, Salem Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 662:

     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.

   • 2013, Brian L. Evans, The Remarkable Chester Ronning: Proud Son of China‎, University of Alberta Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 101:

     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.

• Yenna