Yenan
Britishnoun
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Like other recruits to Yenan she was fascinated by differences among the leading comrades and became aware of Mao's aura of aloofness�his Olympian air, as some called it.
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Decimated by Chiang, the ragged Chinese Communists survived in the caves of Yenan and eventually went on to conquer China, despite Stalin's warning that they were backward and not ready for revolution.
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When the Communists finally reached Yenan 14 months later, only 25,000 of them were left.
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The Communists�and Chiang Ch'ing�were headquartered at Yenan until 1947, when a Nationalist attack finally dislodged them.
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In Yenan he was a kind of rural patriarch.
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