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)
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“After the planet becomes theirs, many millions of years will have to pass before a beetle particularly loved by God, at the end of its calculations will find written on a sheet of paper in letters of fire that energy is equal to the mass multiplied by the square of the velocity of light. The new kings of the world will live tranquilly for a long time, confining themselves to devouring each other and being parasites among each other on a cottage industry scale.”
—Primo Levi (1919–1987)
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