Yen-an
See also: Yenan
English
editEtymology
editFrom Mandarin 延安 (Yán'ān) Wade–Giles romanization: Yen²-an¹.[1]
Pronunciation
edit- enPR: yěnʹänʹ
Proper noun
editYen-an
- Alternative form of Yan'an
- 1963, Ping-chia Kuo, China (The Modern World)[1], 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[2], 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)[3], 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[4], 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.
Translations
editYan'an — see Yan'an
References
edit- ^ Yan'an, Wade-Giles romanization Yen-an, in Encyclopædia Britannica