Definition of "Yenan"

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.

1941, Edgar Snow, The Battle for Asia‎, New York: Random House, page 266

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.

1971, Donald W. Klein, Anne B. Clark, Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism 1921-1965‎, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, page 646

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.

1975 January 12, L. Chen, “Very ominous year ahead for Mao”, in Free China Weekly‎, volume XVI, number 2, Taipei, page 3

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.

1983, James C. H. Shen, “The Japan Breakaway”, in Robert Myers, editor, The U.S. & Free China: How the U.S. Sold Out Its Ally‎, Washington, D.C.: Acropolis Books Ltd., page 123

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

1997, Carolle J. Carter, Mission to Yenan: American Liaison with the Chinese Communists‎, page 10

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.

2015, Richard Overy, editor, The Oxford Illustrated History of World War II‎, Oxford University Press, page 55

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.

2021 June 30, “100 Years of Chinese Communism”, in Wall Street Journal‎, archived from the original on 30 June 2021, Opinion