Tianmen

• Tienmen (Postal Romanization)
• T'ien-men, T'ien-mên (Wade–Giles)

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 天門／天门 (Tiānmén).

Tianmen

1. A sub-prefectural city in Hubei, China.
   • [1963, Paul A. Cohen, China and Christianity: The Missionary Movement and the Growth of Chinese Antiforeignism, 1860-1870‎, 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.]

   • [2000, “Takaaki Ishigami”, in Listen to the Voices from the Sea: Writings of the Fallen Japanese Students‎, 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.

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