Word: yenan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Observers to Yenan. Once started, the P.P.C. did not stop. For the first time the Communist issue was discussed in the open-how to achieve unity or at least working relations with China's 80 million Communists. Then the P.P.C. appointed a five-man commission of its own to journey to Yenan, capital of Communist China, investigate Communist claims (TIME, Aug. 28). The choice of investigators (not one of the five men named was a Kuomintang member) was an unmistakable slap at the all-powerful Kuomintang. The P.P.C. also demanded...
...issued a challenge: we have invited Dr. Wang and his colleagues to visit Yenan [Communist capital] for a thorough exchange of views. Said Dr. Wang: "We are ready to accept. ..." Then the Council took an unprecedented step: it voted to send a delegation of five non-Kuomintang members to Yenan to investigate...
...Yenan, the capital (pop. 25,000), is a city of caves cut in tiers in the loess slopes. One of its cave hospitals has eight stories. Its university (enrollment: 2,000) is a labyrinth of classrooms and dormitories...
Sixty-three Yenan loafers were coaxed to an erh-lü-tze convention. Wine and cakes were served. Then Communist leaders lectured them...
After five years of armed truce, blockade and counter-blockade, the Kuomintang and Communist Governments last May began haggling over unity terms. Chungking offered to recognize the Communists as a legal party but demanded that they acknowledge Kuomintang suzerainty. Yenan (Communist capital) countered with sweeping proposals for national economic and political reform...