Mao was here. (Yanan, Shaanxi, China)

The Economist (US) | June 19, 1993 | Copyright

THE town of Yanan, tucked between the yellow hills of Shaanxi Province, is a symbol of the Communist Party's greatest pride and of its greatest embarrassment. This is where the Red Army took refuge from bombing raids at the end of the Long March, and where Chairman Mao made his home in a cave from 1937 to 1947. Yanan is the glorious cradle of China's revolution.

Mao's faithful white pony is stuffed in the local museum, the Great Leader's saddle still on its back. Groups of tourists from state industries gaze in awe at the cave dwellings and the rooms where the party's ...

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