Meanings
- alternativeAlternative spelling of Tiananmen Square.
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.
2009 January 8, Ian Ransom, “Chinese Internet operators apologize for lewd content”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 25 May 2022, Internet News1 more example
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.
1999, “Beijing”, in The Book of the World, 2nd United States edition, Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 367
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