Meanings
alternative also Yanan · alternative Yenan · alternative Yen-an
- A prefecture-level city of Shaanxi, China.
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.
2004, Ian Johnson, Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in Modern China, New York: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 314 more examples
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.
Mao Zedong: Man, Not God
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], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, published 1996, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 13On 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.
2000, Jasper Becker, The Chinese, London: John Murray, published 2003, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 365A 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.
2012, Merle Goldman, From Comrade to Citizen: the Struggle for Political Rights in China, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 212Both 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.
2020, Xiangzhou Xu, Tongxin Zhu, Hongwu Zhang, Lu Gao, Experimental Erosion: Theory and Practice of Soil Conservation Experiments, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 79Synonyms: Fushih
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounA prefecture-level city of Shaanxi, China.
Origin
- Mandarin延安
- EnglishYan'an
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 延安 (Yán'ān).
More words from Mandarin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Cantonese 延安
- 延安 (jin⁴ on¹)prefecture-level city
Chinese Mandarin 延安
- 延安 (Yán'ān)prefecture-level city
Vietnamese Diên An
- Diên Anprefecture-level city
Cite this entry
Yan'an. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Yan'an
“Yan'an.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Yan'an. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Yan'an,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Yan'an.
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