Yanan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of 延安 (Yán'ān), without syllable-dividing mark (隔音符號／隔音符号 (géyīn fúhào)).
Senses: examples: text: Some of the famous inns like the Taian Inn and the Qianyi Inn located in the Jiaji Long (lane) to the north of Yangjingbang (the present Yanan Road, East) started their business in a lane.
ref: 1985, Jia You, “GENERAL ASPECTS OF STREET-LANES IN SHANGHAI”, in Min Dayong, transl., Anecdotes of Old Shanghai, 1st edition, Shanghai Cultural Publishing House, →OCLC, page 137:
text: But Shaanxi also commands attention from scholars of more modern times. It was into the unremarkable small market town of Yanan, a drab, inhospitable, inaccessible settlement, that in 1936 tramped a procession of weary peasant soldiers. These were troops of the Red Peasants’ and Workers’ Army, and at their head was a disgruntled intellectual named Mao Zedong. It was the end of the Long March, and it was to Yanan that Mao had led those few of his men who survived with him and tramped and fought their way across China. If Xian and other ancient capitals along the Huanghe and its tributaries are places of pilgrimage for those curious about the imperial past, then Yanan is likewise a magnet for those wishing to visit the cradle of the New China. Here, hacked into the loess cliff face, is the cave home where Mao lived for most of the eleven years that Yanan was headquarters of the communists.
ref: 1987, Kevin Sinclair, “The Middle Reaches”, in The Yellow River: A 5000 Year Journey through China, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 87:
text: After the Red Army sets up headquarters at Yanan in north Shanxi^([sic – meaning Shaanxi]) province, he accepts a frontline post in repelling the Japanese invasion, and becomes commander of the New Fourth Army.
ref: 1997, Donald J. Marion, The Chinese Filmography: The 2444 Feature Films Produced by Studios in the People's Republic of China from 1949 through 1995, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 212:
text: While at Chinese Communist Party headquarters in Yanan, Mr. Topping watched peasant folk dances with Mao Zedong’s wife, Jiang Qing, who was later a driving force in the murderous purge dubbed the Cultural Revolution.
ref: 2020 November 8, Harrison Smith, “Seymour Topping, high-powered foreign correspondent and editor, dies at 98”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Nov 2020, Obituaries:
text: The idea of the motherland also featured in Yanan, the city in northwest China mythologised in party history as the birthplace of the revolution where Mao cemented his authority as party leader. Students were seen being asked to recite the patriotic song "Ode to the Motherland" by a tour guide.[...]
Among the adult visitors, many, such as Zhang Zhaoyang from Hunan province, said they were in Yanan as part of a "red tourism" or party-building trip organised by their party unit or employer.[...]
The push to study the party's history this year is a boon to tourism in red tourist hot spots like Yanan and Xibaipo, say officials. But the trend is not new.
Before the pandemic, tourism in Yanan grew consistently, officials said, from 40.25 million visitors in 2016 to 73.08 million in 2019.[...]
At Yanan's China Executive Leadership Academy, one of several across the country where senior officials study the party and its history, academy Vice Director Li Guoxi explained the chief aim of their courses.
ref: 2021 May 25, Martin Pollard, “Chinese visit 'red' sites ahead of 100th Communist Party anniversary”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 25 May 2021:
text: In Shaanxi, there was one other case apart from the 122 in Xian in Yanan, about 260km (162 miles) north of the provincial capital.
ref: 2022 January 2, Jack Lau, “Covid-19 in China: Xian cases edge down on New Year’s Day after worst week of 2021”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 02 Jan 2022:
glosses: Alternative form of Yan'an.