English citations of Yan'an

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延安西路
West Yan'an Road
(subway station in Shanghai)
  • 1980 [1943], Mao Zedong, “On the development of agriculture”, in Andrew Watson, editor, Mao Zedong and the Political Economy of the Border Region: A Translation of Mao's Economic and Financial Problems[1], Cambridge University Press, published 1944, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 68:
    In 1939, there were only about 300,000 mu of ploughed land in Yan’an. In 1942, there were 699,538 mu. There used to be a lot of uncultivated land in the counties of Ansai, Anding, Yanchuan, and Yanchang. Now there is very little. Before 1940 the Border Region bought grain from Luochuan county and east of the Yellow River. Now, not only is it unnecessary to buy grain from outside, there is even some surplus grain which is exported to the region of Yulin.
  • 1992, Quan Yanchi [权延赤], “Mao Enjoys a Challenge”, in Wang Wenjiong, transl., edited by Gale Hadfield, 走下神坛的毛泽东 [Mao Zedong: Man, Not God]‎[2], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, published 1996, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 13:
    Upon receiving intelligence reports about the massing of enemy paratroopers, General Peng Dehuai posted a defence regiment at Yan'an airfield, and requested that Mao leave Yan'an as soon as possible.
  • 2000, Jasper Becker, The Chinese[3], London: John Murray, published 2003, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 365:
    On my last trip before completing this book, I visited Zizhou county, about 200 miles north of Yan’an, where peasants had tried to engage a lawyer to defend themselves in the courts against the oppressive and brutal control of local Party officials. Not much had changed here in the seventy years since Mao’s Long March and his ‘liberation’ of the peasants from their ‘cruel landlords’. Now, the peasants were afraid not of landlords but of the Party officials who prey on them just as the landlords once did.
  • 2004, Ian Johnson, Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in Modern China[4], New York: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 31:
    I had planned to go to Zizhou, the county where Mr. Ma had organized the peasants. It was halfway between Yulin and Yan'an, which is where Mr. Ma lived.
  • 2010, De-Yuan Hong, “History of Taxonomic Studies of Paeonia”, in Peonies of the World: Taxonomy and Phytogeography[5], Kew Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 19:
    In their first paper (T. Hong et al., 1992), Paeonia ostii was described as a new tree peony that is widely cultivated in China for medicine; P. jishanensis was described as a new species from Jishan County, Shanxi Province, and was stated to differ from P. suffruticosa var. spontanea Rehder in having white flowers and non-petaloid stamens; P. yananensis was based on a specimen from a forest near the Peony Garden in Yan’an, Shaanxi Province; and P. suffruticosa subsp. rockii S. G. Haw & Lauener was raised to specific rank, but this new combination was invalid.
  • 2012, Merle Goldman, From Comrade to Citizen: the Struggle for Political Rights in China[6], Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 212:
    A prominent example of such action took place in the villages in Zizhou County, a drought-prone area several hundred miles north of Yan’an, Shaanxi Province, Mao’s revolutionary base area.
  • 2020, Xiangzhou Xu, Tongxin Zhu, Hongwu Zhang, Lu Gao, Experimental Erosion: Theory and Practice of Soil Conservation Experiments[7], →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 79:
    Both the Lvliang area investigated in this study and the Yan'an area are located in the Loess Hill Ravine Region, and the average thickness value of the individual landslides in Lvliang section is close to that in Yan'an.
  • 2022 March 21, “Wild leopard family spotted in NW China's Shaanxi”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency[8], archived from the original on 14 April 2022[9]:
    A wild leopard family has been captured by an infrared camera in a nature reserve in Yan'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province.