"Yen-an" meaning in English

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Proper name

enPR: yěnʹänʹ Etymology: From Mandarin 延安 (Yán'ān) Wade–Giles romanization: Yen²-an¹. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|cmn|延安}} Mandarin 延安 (Yán'ān), {{bor|en|cmn-wadegiles|-}} Wade–Giles Head templates: {{en-proper noun|nolinkhead=1}} Yen-an
  1. Alternative form of Yan'an. Wikipedia link: Army Map Service, Encyclopædia Britannica Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: Yan'an
    Sense id: en-Yen-an-en-name-FHmzytJc Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1967, Frederic H. Chaffee, Area Handbook for Communist China, Government Printing Office, page 51:",
          "text": "The main force of the Communist Army broke through the Nationalist cordon and fled by a circuitous route through the wilderness of Southwest China to the northwest province of Shensi where they established a new Soviet-type government at Yen-an.",
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          "ref": "2013, Brian L. Evans, The Remarkable Chester Ronning: Proud Son of China, University of Alberta Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 101:",
          "text": "The annihilation campaigns proved failures and the Chinese Communists escaped to begin their epic Long March, a trek of a year's duration (1934-35) to the northwest to Yen-an (Yan'an) north of Sian. En route, at Tsunyi (Zunyi), out of contact with Moscow, they elected Mao Tse-tung as their leader and accepted his Sinified version of Marxism, Mao Tse-tung Thought, as their ideology. The remnants of the party, on arrival in Yen-an, lived in caves, licked their wounds, and set about builidng a party and army structure based on Mao's view that the leading revolutionary class in China was the peasantry.",
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