Tienanmen Square

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.

1953 November 5, “Soviet Tanks in Peiping Celebration”, in The Atlanta Constitution, volume LXXXVI, number 122, Atlanta, page 9

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.

1978 December 3, “Mainland youths demand democracy”, in Free China Weekly, volume XIX, number 48, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3

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.

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

Pondering these matters, he stepped out to visit the world’s largest Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant, near Tienanmen Square.

1993, Wayne Grady, The Dinosaur Project: The Story of the Greatest Dinosaur Expedition Ever Mounted, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 146

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 23