Tiananmen Square

[tyahn-ahn-men]

noun

1. a large plaza in central Beijing, China: noted especially as the site of major student demonstrations in 1989 suppressed by the government.

Tiananmen Square

1. Location in Beijing of pro-democracy demonstrations that were brutally suppressed in 1989 by troops loyal to the communist regime of the People's Republic of China.

Example Sentences

It’s more like Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s “Study of Perspective” series of photographs, where his outstretched hand raises a middle finger aimed toward symbolic power centers — the White House, Tiananmen Square, the Eiffel Tower, the Reichstag, etc.

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There’s precedent: In the poisonous atmosphere after the killings on Tiananmen Square, U.S.-China relations were badly damaged and there was no way to fix them because dissident astrophysicist Fang Lizhi was holed up in the U.S.

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Foreign media access to attending officials is highly restricted during the event, which typically opens and closes in Beijing's grandiose Great Hall of the People on Tiananmen Square.

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Beijing last purged an incumbent CMC vice chair in 1989, when Zhao Ziyang was removed as the party’s general secretary and the CMC’s first-ranked vice chairman over his perceived softness in handling student protests in and around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.

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Jin, 56 years old, came to Christianity in the aftermath of the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations, when as a student in Beijing he joined pro-democracy protests that the military ultimately violently suppressed.

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