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Yenan

British  
/ ˈjɛnˈæn /

noun

  1. a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Yanan

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Chefoo's capture was the greatest Government victory since, the capture of Yenan, the Communist capital.

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Amid his stops was isolated Yenan, capital of Chinese Communism.

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Yahoo in Yenan By late 1944, the military situation in China was desperate.

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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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By the time she herself arrived in Yenan straight from Shanghai in the late summer of 1937, Mao and Ho were divorced.

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