Yenann.
/jɛˈnan/ The name of a town in northern Shaanxi province, China, which was the headquarters of the Chinese Communist Party in the years 1936–49, used attributively to designate this period in the history of the Party, or to describe the principles and policies evolved by it at that time.
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1949 F. C. Jones Manchuria since 1931 xii. 231 The Yenan régime had no hold upon the country in general before August 1945.
1957 P. S. H. Tang Communist China Today: Domestic & Foreign Policies v. 197 Thoroughness of rural regimentation characterized..administration of the Shensi-Kansu-Ninghsia border region during the Yenan period.
1966 F. Schurmann Ideol. & Organization in Communist China i. 59 The scattered guerrilla forces of the Yenan period had to report back to headquarters in systematic ways.
1970 E. Snow Other Side of River (1971) xxxii. 257 After 1966 foreign ballets were seen no more in China; traditional Chinese opera was also overhauled to make it conform to Yenan principles. Mao Tse-tung's dicta, Talks at the Yenan Forum on Art and Literature, became the guide~lines for stage and screen performances.
1975 I. C. Y. Hsü Rise of Mod. China (ed. 2) xxiv. 714 The heart of the Yenan Way was the perfection of the mass line and the sharpening of revolutionary nationalism in the countryside, which became the twin pillars of Maoism.
1979 Encounter Feb. 74/1 The ‘Great Leap Forward’ led to a re-evaluation of the significance of the Yenan period of the late 1930s and early 1940s.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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