Yan'an

In July, both the Vatican and Beijing approved the appointment of Bishop John Baptist Yang Xiaoting of Yan'an diocese, a rare event because China and Rome do not normally accept bishops appointed by the other.

Exhibition Celebrates Early Catholic Missionary in China 2010

In July, both the Vatican and Beijing approved the appointment of Bishop John Baptist Yang Xiaoting of Yan'an diocese, a rare event because China and Rome do not normally accept bishops appointed by the other.

Exhibition Celebrates Early Catholic Missionary in China 2010

Mr. Rittenberg, who was working as a consultant for the investors, reminded Mr. Xi that he had known his father, who he says used to invite him to dance parties in Yan'an, where they would do the fox trot, and occasionally square dance to a simple string and brass band.

Early Hardship Shaped Xi's World View Jeremy Page 2012

I was standing on Yan'an Nan Road in Ürümqi trying to get a taxi, and one Uighur girl came up next to me and was trying to get a taxi too.

Global Voices in English » China: Considering Han chauvinism 2009

He is the son of the admired poet Ai Qing, a communist who had been with Mao in Yan'an in the years before the 1949 revolution, but fell foul of the party during the anti-rightist movement of the late 1950s and was declared an enemy of the people.

Ai Weiwei: the dissident artist 2011

Mr. Xi was sent in a group of 20 to 30 young teenagers, mostly from military families, to Liangjiahe in the Yan'an region of Shaanxi, where his father was widely renowned for helping establish a partisan base for Communist forces in the 1930s.

Early Hardship Shaped Xi's World View Jeremy Page 2012

Yuan/Associated Press Coworkers adjusted a man's tie and collar before their performance in a 'red' song contest in Yan'an, in northwestern China, on Thursday.

Communist Party Marks 90 Years 2011

Associated Press A tourist dressed as a Communist Red Army soldier poses for photos in front of a Mao Zedong's poster at an old Communist Party base in Yan'an, in northwestern China.

Chinese Party Marks Nine Decades Jeremy Page 2011

Yan'an is celebrated as the birthplace of the country's Communist revolution.

Communist Party Marks 90 Years 2011

When Delun and I joined the Communists in Yan'an, we never imagined that Mao would meet a U.S. president.

Opera's 'Nixon in China' Moment Nick Frisch 2011