Tian'anmen Square

See also: Tiananmen Square

English

Proper noun

Tian'anmen Square

1. Alternative spelling of Tiananmen Square
   • 1999, “Beijing”, in The Book of the World, 2nd United States edition, Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 367:

     Today Qianmen, the gate at the southern end of Tian'anmen Square ("Place of Heavenly Peace") marks the site of a boundary line drawn within the city by its cautious potentates. On one side is representative showiness: boulevards run in the traditional north-south direction, as well as newer avenues that cut through a sea of houses, broad streets like Dongchang'an Jie which Mao ordered built along an east-west axis.

   • 2009 January 8, Ian Ransom, “Chinese Internet operators apologize for lewd content”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters‎^[1], archived from the original on 25 May 2022, Internet News:

     Analysts have linked the campaign to broader efforts to stifle dissent ahead of sensitive political dates this year, especially the 20th anniversary year of the government’s bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests centered on Beijing’s Tian’anmen Square in 1989.

   • 2022 January 6, “Xinhua pictures of the year 2021: China news”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency‎^[2], archived from the original on 07 January 2022:

     Chorus members perform ahead of a ceremony marking the centenary of the Communist Party of China at Tian'anmen Square in Beijing, capital of China, July 1, 2021.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Tian'anmen Square.