Word: yenan
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...still has a limp and a nervous tic when he speaks-which does not keep him from speaking often and abrasively. No stranger to the Russians, he attended two previous Moscow meetings on the split-in 1957 and in 1960. A veteran of Mao's Long March to Yenan in the 1930s, Teng came to prominence as a political commissar in the army, since 1952 has risen to a place among the top four or five men in Red China's hierarchy...
From the Golden Horde to Yenan...
After Chiang's Kuomintang and the Communists came to bloody parting of the ways, Li and his wife joined the Long March in which Mao led 90,000 Communists 6,000 miles from Kiangsi to the caves of Yenan, escaping the pursuing Kuomintang. Li Fu-chun ably handled supply problems for the fleeing Reds. When the Communists finally reached Yenan 14 months later, only 25,000 of them were left. Li's wife has never fully recovered from the ordeal. Correspondent Edgar Snow dined with the Lis in 1936 and noted in his diary that Tsai Chang still...
Though the chairman of Japan's Communist Party, Sanzo Nosaka, dates his friendship to Mao Tse-tung back to Mao's struggle in Yenan during the '305, the powerful Secretary-General, Kenji Miyamoto, is a devoted follower of the Kremlin. While Peking issues a trickle of invitations to Japanese leftists, the Soviet Union maintains a steady cultural offensive by welcoming Japanese singers, scientists. Kabuki dancer-actors...
...Attlee at the London School of Economics. Deported, he returned to Japan and was in and out of jail until 1931, when he fled to Russia with his wife and became an executive member of the Comintern. In 1943. Nozaka was sent to join Mao Tse-tung in the Yenan caves as an adviser; at war's end he started back to Japan in a U.S. military transport plane. He was purged by General Douglas MacArthur for agitating against the Korean war, went underground, and surfaced again...