Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Tiananmen Square (place name).
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.
1999, Felix Wilfred, “Asian Dreams and Christian Hope”, in Virgil Elizondo, Jon Sobrino, editors, 2000: Reality and Hope, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 712 more examples
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.”
1995, Alberto Zola, “Introduction”, in China, Tiger Books International, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 23Anyone not familiar with allusions to figures from ancient China’s history, or even the tumultuous events of the Century of Humiliation (from 1839 to 1949 and commemorated by a marble obelisk in T’ien-an-men Square) would find Mao's writings abstruse or even bizarre.
2012, G. L. Lamborn, “Neither Karl nor Antoine”, in Arms of Little Value: The Challenge of Insurgency and Global Instability in the Twenty-First Century, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 112
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