Yenan

/ ˈjɛnˈæn /

noun

1. a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Yanan

Example Sentences

When talks faltered he shuttled back and forth between the two sides, meeting for hours at a time, first with Chiang, then with Mao’s deputy, Zhou Enlai, flying to Yenan to confer directly with Mao and traveling repeatedly by plane, boat, jeep and sedan chair when the generalissimo retreated to his summer home in the mountains outside Nanjing.

From New York Times

Mr. Jia’s commitment has reassured a number of investors, including Hu Yenan, who has formed a company to bring people together and pour money into the conglomerate’s various businesses.

From New York Times

“Yenan — which we called Dixie since it was rebel territory — was from the air a thoroughly insignificant Northwest China town set in a treeless valley. The eroded, lumpish plateau that rose from the valley floor on either side was, in late October, parched bare and tan.”

From New York Times

Still, the mediation was a fiasco, especially that part of it conducted by the first of the U.S. mediators, an Oklahoman named Patrick J. Hurley, who arrived in the Communists’ wartime headquarters in remote Yenan in November 1944 sure that peace between the two Chinese parties was at hand.

From New York Times

A witness to the failure was Hurley’s interpreter, David D. Barrett, who was also the head of a U.S. observer group stationed at Yenan.

From New York Times