Tiananmen Square in Beijing has been the central point for several major historical protests, with their most commonly referred to Chinese name in parentheses.
- May Fourth Movement, Tiananmen Square protests of 1919 (The May Fourth Movement for Science and Democracy)
- Tiananmen Incident, Tiananmen Square protests of 1976 (The April Fifth Movement)
- Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 (The June Fourth Incident, or the 1989 Movement for Democracy)
- Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident, allegedly involving Falun Gong practitioners (23 January 2001)
Famous quotes containing the word square:
“Rationalists, wearing square hats,
Think, in square rooms,
Looking at the floor,
Looking at the ceiling.
They confine themselves
To right-angled triangles.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)