Yenan
Britishnoun
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Hurley had already failed to make peace between Stilwell and Chiang when he decided to take off for Yenan to make peace between Communists and Nationalists.
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In Yenan he was a kind of rural patriarch.
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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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The Communists' Red Army had just completed its epic Long March from the Southeast to its new headquarters at Yenan in remote northern Shensi province.
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Chefoo's capture was the greatest Government victory since, the capture of Yenan, the Communist capital.
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