Tienanmen Square
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of Chinese 天安門廣場 /天安门广场 (Tiān'ānmén Guǎngchǎng) via Wade-Giles romanization: Tʻien¹-an¹-mên².
Senses: examples: text: Soviet-made T-34 tanks armed with 85-mm guns move through Tienanmen Square in Peiping China during celebration of National Day, according to caption accompanying this photo distributed by Eastfoto, New York picture agency which services pictures from Red-controlled China.
ref: 1953 November 5, “Soviet Tanks in Peiping Celebration”, in The Atlanta Constitution, volume LXXXVI, number 122, Atlanta, page 9:
text: About 1,000 youths gathered on Changan Street and in the Tienanmen Square in Peiping Saturday night to demand democracy and law, and freedom of speech, Japanese correspondents reported.
The crowds, whose members appeared to have an average age of 20, asked the correspondents about the election system, land reform, human rights and press censorship in Japan and about democracy in the United States, and asked how the American President is elected.
ref: 1978 December 3, “Mainland youths demand democracy”, in Free China Weekly, volume XIX, number 48, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:
text: The report also said as many as 70,000 troopers may have moved into the city center by subway and followed connecting tunnels to the walled palace, the history museum and the Great Hall of the People on three sides of the vast Tienanmen Square.
ref: 1989 May 21, Nicholas D. Kristof, “UPHEAVAL IN CHINA; BIGGEST BEIJING CROWDS SO FAR KEEP TROOPS FROM CITY CENTER; PARTY REPORTED IN BITTER FIGHT”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Aug 2010, Section 1, page 1:
text: Pondering these matters, he stepped out to visit the world’s largest Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant, near Tienanmen Square.
ref: 1993, Wayne Grady, The Dinosaur Project: The Story of the Greatest Dinosaur Expedition Ever Mounted, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 146:
text: Soon we arrived at the Beijing Hotel—within shouting distance of the now infamous Tienanmen Square.
ref: 1995, Leonard Nimoy, I Am Spock, New York: Hyperion, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 188:
text: The heart of the modern city is T’ien-an-men Square, one of the largest — if not the largest — square in the world, created expressly in the Fifties on the ashes of the old “Tartar city,” an agglomeration of small and unassuming low grey houses, inhabited by the populace that was once excluded from the “Forbidden City.”
ref: [1995, Alberto Zola, “Introduction”, in China, Tiger Books International, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 23:
text: We may think of the young people who valiantly stood for the cause of human rights and resisted their infringement, in spite of the violent crackdown by the Chinese regime at T’ien-an-men Square in June 1989.
ref: [1999, Felix Wilfred, “Asian Dreams and Christian Hope”, in Virgil Elizondo, Jon Sobrino, editors, 2000: Reality and Hope, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 71:
text: Several Chinese political activists who have been in exile following their involvement in the 1989 Tienanmen Square demonstrations published an open letter to Beijing Friday urging the Chinese authorities to allow them to go home.
ref: 2012 April 6, “Chinese exiled dissidents call for permission to go home”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 04 Apr 2023, Politics:
text: Jessica Johnson & Chloe Lai's project on the Tienanmen Square Massacre won 1st place in the group exhibit category.
ref: 2018, Bedford High School 2018, Bedford, Mass., page 119:
text: The government has faith in the US’ democratic institutions and judicial system in the handling of the alleged police killing of an African-American man, and people should not forget the advocates for democracy sacrificed in the Tienanmen Square Massacre 31 years ago, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said yesterday.
ref: 2020 June 5, Yi-hsuan Lu, Dennis Xie, “MOFA reflects on aftermath of protests”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Jun 2020, Front Page, page 1:
text: Chinese President Xi Jinping on a Hongqi limousine at a parade in Tienanmen Square in Beijing.
ref: 2022 January 24, Aadil Brar, “Chinese are talking about inequality again just a year after Xi said poverty ended”, in Anurag Chaubey, editor, ThePrint, archived from the original on 24 Jan 2022, Chinascope:
text: The Peaceful Revolution leading to the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, for example, is framed as a "stroke of luck" since only months earlier the GDR regime had approved of China's brutal crackdown on protests in Tienanmen Square.
ref: 2023 January 30, “Could Adolf Hitler's seizure of power have been prevented?”, in Taiwan News, Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 04 Apr 2023:
text: However, things take a dramatic turn when he enters the country in June 1989, a time of political unrest and during the height of the Tienanmen Square student protests, and he finds himself quickly thrown into a battle far bigger than just a game.
ref: 2023 February 15, Clarise Larson, “A look before the ‘Leap’”, in Juneau Empire, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Feb 2023:
glosses: Alternative form of Tiananmen Square.