Tianmen
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See also: tiānmén
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 天門 / 天门 (Tiānmén).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Tianmen
- A sub-prefectural city in Hubei, China.
- , Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 303:
- This interaction between popular suspicions and rumors generated by inflammatory literature was clearly noted by Li Hung-chang in connection with the Tienmen, Hupeh, missionary case of 1869.]
- , University of Scranton Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 11:
- Conscripted and entered the barracks November 2, 1939. He was killed in action March 17, 1942, in Tienmên Hsien in Hupei-Shêng. Army lieutenant. He was twenty-five years old.]
- 2008 January 18, David Barboza, “Bloggers Push China to Prosecute Beating Death”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-12-24, ASIA PACIFIC:
- City officials in Tianmen in Hubei Province in central China are being punished and investigated for their role in the killing of the man, Wei Wenhua, the general manager of a construction company, and the beatings of five villagers during a dispute on Jan. 7, the state-run news agency Xinhua reported.
Translations
sub-prefecture-level city in central China
References
- ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Tienmen or T’ien-men”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1911, column 1