Meaning of Tienanmen Square | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

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“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Soon we arrived at the Beijing Hotel—within shouting distance of the now infamous Tienanmen Square.”

“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.””

“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.”

“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.”

“Jessica Johnson & Chloe Lai's project on the Tienanmen Square Massacre won 1st place in the group exhibit category.”

“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.”

“Chinese President Xi Jinping on a Hongqi limousine at a parade in Tienanmen Square in Beijing.”

“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.”

“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.”

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