Word: yenan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yenan last week the Communist elite of the onetime Red capital seemed gone for good, but the natives of the place-whom the Chinese Communists loved to call lao pai hsing (the common people)-were drifting back to town from their temporary and dusty bivouacs in the Shensi hills. TIME Correspondent Frederick Gruin looked on, then cabled this account...
...come back to Yenan? Yang snorts. "I never left," he says. "I am too old for retreat." He simply took refuge in a cave overlooking the city. The day after the Government troops entered-after the street-sniping ended-Yang came down. Aiya! His shop was intact, but Government soldiers had taken his bedding and wares of toothpaste and Yenan brand cigarets. For two days he had been impressed as a water carrier. Now he was free again with a Government relief stock of cigarets and flour for ta bing (cakes...
Distant, dusty, and millennially old, Yenan had been the ideal Communist capital-equally inaccessible to invading Japs and preoccupied Nationalists. Now that it was indefensible against Chiang, the Communists would continue the fight in other areas, such as the Communist pocket in coastal Shantung Province and, preeminently, on the Manchurian front. (Last week Shanghai heard that Russian troops were at long last pulling out of Dairen...
...Faith. "Somewhere in North Shensi" the old Yenan radio came back on the air. It repeated the months-old line that the Reds were "trading empty cities for Kuomintang casualties," although four months ago the Communists said they would defend Yenan "to the death...
...last handouts from Yenan put this Red faith confidently: "The more Chiang concentrates his forces . . . the more he will expose himself." Another Yenan handout of the penultimate period contained a puzzle for those who still think that Chinese Communists are merely agrarian reformers without connection with Communist movements elsewhere. Yenan based its faith in the future on "factors of decisive significance" in the outside world. These included an inevitable "American crisis" and "victories of the Soviet Union in economic construction and foreign policy...