Word: yenan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...short-wave broadcast from Tokyo last week reported new conflict: Some fighting in Kansu Province, Communist demands for more Central Government funds, a conference of Communist leaders at Yenan headed by the second-in-command, Chu Teh, to discuss the contingency of open warfare with Chungking...
Inside Red China, by the good-looking wife of Edgar Snow (Red Star Over China), describes four months spent in Yenan, former headquarters of the Chinese Soviet Republic (now the "Frontier Districts of Shensi, Kansu and Ningsia") and the Red Army (now the Eighth Route Army). Written a year after her husband brought out his sensational account of the Chinese Soviets, her book duplicates much of the material in his, but is more personalized, has more to say about the women leaders who survived the epochal 6,000-mile "Long March" (when the Communists retreated in 1934 from South China...
Most fascinating of new "New China's" educational institutions are those now operating at Yenan, "capital" of the northern, Communist-held territory. At Yenan now are the Anti-Japanese University, the North Shensi Academy (training school for guerrilla-war organizers), the Marxist & Leninist University, the Lo Shun Art Academy, the School of Dramatic Art (directed by Shanghai's top-rank cinemactress). There were few buildings in Yenan to house the schools but in the hard-packed loess hillsides, students gouged cave classrooms and dormitories (see cut). There 4,000 men, 1,000 women, more than there...
General Chu Teh looks like a peasant and takes his communism literally. His only weakness is a passion for basketball. At the Communist capital of Yenan the generalissimo could generally be found after hours at one or another of the city's eight basketball courts, waiting humbly in line for some team captain to pick him for a team. Despite his enthusiasm, the generalissimo is a poor hand at dribbling and passing. Very often he must sit with the subs. To his followers last week General Chu sent this message...