Yan'an

See also: yanan, Yanan, Yán'ān, yán'àn, and yàn'ān

English

延安西路
West Yan'an Road
(subway station in Shanghai named after Yan'an, Shaanxi)

Alternative forms

• Yanan (also from Hanyu Pinyin)
• Yenan, Yen-an

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 延安 (Yán'ān).

Proper noun

Yan'an

1. A prefecture-level city in Shaanxi, China.
   • 1992, Yanchi (权延赤) Quan, “Mao Enjoys a Challenge”, in Wang Wenjiong, transl., edited by Gale Hadfield, 走下神坛的毛泽东 [Mao Zedong: Man, Not God]‎^[2], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, published 1996, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 13:

     Upon receiving intelligence reports about the massing of enemy paratroopers, General Peng Dehuai posted a defence regiment at Yan'an airfield, and requested that Mao leave Yan'an as soon as possible.

   • 2000, Jasper Becker, The Chinese‎^[3], London: John Murray, published 2003, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 365:

     On my last trip before completing this book, I visited Zizhou county, about 200 miles north of Yan’an, where peasants had tried to engage a lawyer to defend themselves in the courts against the oppressive and brutal control of local Party officials. Not much had changed here in the seventy years since Mao’s Long March and his ‘liberation’ of the peasants from their ‘cruel landlords’. Now, the peasants were afraid not of landlords but of the Party officials who prey on them just as the landlords once did.

   • 2004, Ian Johnson, Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in Modern China‎^[4], New York: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 31:

     I had planned to go to Zizhou, the county where Mr. Ma had organized the peasants. It was halfway between Yulin and Yan'an, which is where Mr. Ma lived.

   • 2012, Merle Goldman, From Comrade to Citizen: the Struggle for Political Rights in China‎^[5], Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 212:

     A prominent example of such action took place in the villages in Zizhou County, a drought-prone area several hundred miles north of Yan’an, Shaanxi Province, Mao’s revolutionary base area.

   • 2020, Xiangzhou Xu, Tongxin Zhu, Hongwu Zhang, Lu Gao, Experimental Erosion: Theory and Practice of Soil Conservation Experiments‎^[6], →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 79:

     Both the Lvliang area investigated in this study and the Yan'an area are located in the Loess Hill Ravine Region, and the average thickness value of the individual landslides in Lvliang section is close to that in Yan'an.

Synonyms

• (historical) Fushih

Translations

prefecture-level city

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 延安 (jin⁴ on¹)

  Mandarin: 延安 (zh) (Yán'ān)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: Diên An

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yan’an”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3513, column 2
• “Yan’an”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Yan'an” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.