Seventy-five years ago last month, Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong declared the founding of the People's Republic from atop Tiananmen, the Gate of Heavenly Peace. Situated on the southern ...

Tian'anmen Gate was the principal entry to the Imperial Palace during the Ming and Qing dynasties. It is one of the finest monumental gates in the world, extraordinary for its imposing size.

Up there with Times Square, Red Square and St. Peter's Square, Tiananmen Square is among the world's most famous public spaces. Almost anyone can recognize the Gate of Heavenly Peace emblazoned ...

Like an ant doggedly crossing some megamall parking lot, I trudge across the endless concrete expanse of Beijing's Tiananmen Square ... dominating a wall of the "Gate of Heavenly Peace," a ...

is a large city square in the centre of Beijing, China, named after the Tiananmen Gate (literally, Gate of Heaven's Pacification) located to its north, separating it from the Forbidden City.

The closest subway exit was closed, as was a viewing point atop Tiananmen Gate, according to a visitor registration website. "As to the political disturbance that occurred in the late 1980s ...

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Hong Kong police have been arresting people over social media posts commemorating the Chinese government's Tiananmen Square crackdown on the 4th of June, 35 years ago. One of those was performance ...

Tiananmen, or the Gate of Heavenly Peace, is where Chairman Mao proclaimed the founding of the People’s Republic on 1 October 1949. Just north of the square lies the Imperial Palace (Gugong ...

WATCH: House Speaker Jeffries and Pelosi mark 35th anniversary of Tiananmen Square crackdown China has long quashed any public memory of the military crackdown on months-long protests at the heart ...