Yenan
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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There were only four automobiles in Yenan then, and when Mao required one, his vehicle was a converted ambulance.
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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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Her journey to Yenan was arduous: she rode in the backs of trucks, and where roads had been destroyed, she had to switch to horseback, although she had never been on a horse before.
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Lacking a Ho Chi Minh Trail for receiving foreign supplies, or a remote base camp like Mao's Yenan, they devised a strategy for encircling the cities from the countryside.
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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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