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...through the mud of Shensi's capital to a dark crossroad. Muffled, slippered figures challenged him in low tones. Satisfied, the Chinese motioned the foreigner into a v;aiting truck. At dawn the truck was 30 miles beyond the border of Kuomintang China, lurching through the mountains toward Yenan, capital of Communist China. The year...
...University. Poling their sampans out of Canton just as Japanese entered it, Sun Yat-sen's students pushed ahead by night, hid in the rushes of West River by day. (Biggest migration was not to a university but to a Communist school at Yenan, in northwest China. The roads from Hankow to Yenan were crowded for months with 40,000 youngsters traveling to training classes in propaganda and politics...
...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...