Tiananmen Square

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Etymology

Partial calque from Mandarin 天安門廣場／天安门广场 (Tiān'ānmén Guǎngchǎng, literally “square/plaza of Tiananmen ("the gate of Heaven's peacemaking"[1] or conventionally: "the gate of heavenly peace"[2])”).

Proper noun

Tiananmen Square

  1. A large plaza in Dongcheng district, Beijing, China.
    • 1979, Govind Kelkar, China After Mao‎[1], New Delhi: USHA Publications, page 85:
      On my return from the meeting with Dr Fry, I spent some time walking about Tiananmen Square and took some photographs. Though I had not seen any wall posters there, I did notice six large portraits of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Hua. In the middle of Tiananmen Square there were several small open air photography stalls around which people were queuing up to have themselves photographed at the great revolutionary centre.
    • 1989 June 4, Kate Adie, 0:11 from the start, in Archive: Chinese troops fire on protesters in Tiananmen Square - BBC News‎[2], Peking: BBC News, published 2014:
      On the streets leading down to the main road to Tiananmen Square, furious people stared in disbelief at the glow in the sky, listening to the sound of shots.
    • 1990, Ronald Reagan, An American Life‎[3], Pocket Books, →ISBN, pages 372-373:
      Only history can tell us where China will go from here. The Chinese leadership's brutal crackdown on students seeking fundamental democratic rights makes it difficult to chart the future. Those brave students who laid down their lives against the tanks of Tiananmen Square confirmed what I'd always believed: that no totalitarian society can bottle up the instinctive drive of men and women to be free, and that once you give a captive people a little freedom, they'll demand still more.
    • 2003, Hillary Rodham Clinton, “Imagine the Future”, in Living History‎[4], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 457:
      Because it was a state visit, the Chinese government insisted on a formal arrival ceremony in Beijing. We usually conduct these ceremonies on the White House South Lawn, and the Chinese usually conduct theirs in Tiananmen Square. Bill and I debated whether we should attend a ceremony in Tiananmen Square, where Chinese authorities had used tanks to forcibly suppress pro-democracy demonstrations in June of 1989. Bill didn’t want to appear to endorse China’s repressive tactics and violations of human rights, but he understood the square’s importance over centuries of Chinese history and agreed to respect the Chinese request.
    • 2011, Henry Kissinger, On China‎[5], New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 112:
      In 2011, a statue of Confucius was placed in Tiananmen Square within sight of Mao’s mausoleum — the only other personality so honored.
    • 2022 March 5, Kevin Yao, Ryan Woo, “China to crack down on use of leanness enhancers in cattle and sheep”, in Reuters‎[6], archived from the original on 05 March 2022:
      "We must make economic stability our top priority," Li told delegates gathered at the cavernous Great Hall of the People on the west side of Tiananmen Square.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Tiananmen Square.
  2. A protest event held in the square on June 4, 1989.
    • 1994, Dan Quayle, Standing Firm: A Vice-Presidential Memoir‎[7], 1st edition, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 121:
      The situation had its parallels to the one that developed in China that year: one might not be in the mood to talk with that country's leaders after Tiananmen Square, but if you really wanted to move them in the direction of democracy, and get them to restore the very rights they had trampled on, you were better off talking to them than driving them into hard-headed isolation.
    • 2018 February 8, Rich Lowry, “Yes, we should throw a parade”, in Politico‎[8], archived from the original on 08 February 2018:
      But now the best argument against Trump's parade is that it will become a cultural-war flashpoint and “the resistance” will try its utmost to ruin the affair. Just imagine a protester in a pussy hat in a Tiananmen Square-style standoff with an M1 Abrams tank.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Tiananmen Square.

Translations

References

  1. ^ Erich Hauer. "Why the Sinologue Should Study Manchu." Journal of the North-China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 61 (1930): p. 162. "So the southern main gate of the Imperial Palace in Peking, the T'ien-an-mên, is not the "Gate of Heavenly Tranquility," for the Manchu name Abkai elhe obure duka means "Gate of Heaven's Peacemaking.""
  2. ^ “Tiananmen Square, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. "Origin Chinese, literally ‘square of heavenly peace’."

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