Tian'anmen Square
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See also: Tiananmen Square
English
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]- 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.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Tian'anmen Square.