Word: yenan
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...against the Japanese invasion. Increasingly, however, his war effort bogged down, partly because of the challenge to his rule from Mao Tse-tung and the Communists. Chiang felt that he was inadequately supported by the U.S. A group of U.S. military and diplomatic observers arrived at Communist headquarters in Yenan in July 1944. As the senior diplomat present, Service talked most with Mao and his top aides...
...hoped for U.S. military aid in the war against Japan. He insisted that after Japan's defeat, the U.S. and the China that he expected to influence or control must be close friends. Mao's Communists, Service decided, must be reckoned with. Davies later replaced Service in Yenan and reached the same conclusion: "The Communists are in China to stay. And China's destiny is not Chiang's but theirs...
Huang's contact with Americans dates from the mid-1930s, when he studied at U.S.-supported Yenching University in Peking. In 1944, he served as a Communist liaison officer to the U.S. military mission in Yenan. There he charmed Americans with his affability-as well as his ability to win at Monopoly...
...years to buy a bicycle, which costs $35 to $45. They work eight hours a day, six days a week (overtime is unpaid but acknowledged in valuable political merit points). Leisure time is spent picnicking, swimming, hiking-in emulation of Mao Tse-tung's "long march" to the Yenan caves in the '30s-or reading the Chairman's thoughts. But the drabness of the austere blue, gray or green uniforms that all Chinese wear on the streets is not entirely a true picture. Many Chinese like to dress up in bright-colored clothes at home...
...Hanoi's National Assembly, is as openly pro-Peking as any leader can be in a traditionally anti-Chinese country. He has provided his own political label: his adopted name means "Long March," after Mao Tse-tung's epic 7,000-mile trek to sanctuary in Yenan in 1934. Chinh may be too far out on Peking's political limb to head up Hanoi's middle-of-the-road leadership. Moreover, he has been at odds with both Le Duan and General Giap. With Ho gone as a mediating force, Chinh could find himself isolated...