Tiananmen Square

Proper noun

Tiananmen Square

1. A large plaza in Dongcheng district, Beijing, China.
   • On my return from the meeting with Dr Fry, I spent some time walking about Tiananmen Square and took some photographs. Though I had not seen any wall posters there, I did notice six large portraits of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Hua. In the middle of Tiananmen Square there were several...1979, Govind Kelkar, China After Mao, New Delhi: USHA Publications, page 85
   • On the 33rd anniversary of the crushing of pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, Taiwan has emerged as one of the last places in the Chinese-speaking world remembering the deaths of thousands at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party, after authorities banned...2022 June 4, Vic Chiang, “Tiananmen vigils gain prominence in Taiwan as Chinese threat looms”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Jun 2022, Asia
2. A protest event held in the square on June 4, 1989.
   • The situation had its parallels to the one that developed in China that year: one might not be in the mood to talk with that country's leaders after Tiananmen Square, but if you really wanted to move them in the direction of democracy, and get them to restore the very rights they had trampled on...1994, Dan Quayle, Standing Firm: A Vice-Presidential Memoir, 1st edition, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 121
   • After 79 days, Occupy Central — the protests for democracy that swarmed Hong Kong — is gone. On Monday, police began clearing what was called the biggest political protest in China since Tiananmen Square in 1989.2014 December 16, Nick Kirkpatrick, Justin Wm. Moyer, “Hong Kong’s Occupy Central protest is no more”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Jun 2015, Morning Mix