Yenan
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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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Long after she left Shanghai, she remembered in anguish, she could not rid her mind of the personal enemies she had made there, for many had resurfaced in Yenan.
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Negotiations between Chungking and Yenan have arrived at a complete breakdown.
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When the Party reached the Central Soviet Districts of the Northwest, Ho abandoned the Chairman, vowing never to settle in Yenan.
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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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