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).

• enPR: tyěnʹmǔnʹ^[1]
• Hyphenation: Tian‧men

Tianmen

1. A sub-prefectural city of Hubei, China.
   • [1963, Paul A. Cohen, China and Christianity: The Missionary Movement and the Growth of Chinese Antiforeignism, 1860-1870‎^[2], 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.]

   • [1977 June 29, “National Cotton Growing Conference Held in Hupeh Province”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 125, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA and Wuhan, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: National Affairs, page E 19:

     Warmly accepted, the challenge was made at the recent national conference on cotton growing held in Tienmen County of central China's Hupeh Province, China's main cotton growing county both in acreage and output.]

   • [2000, “Takaaki Ishigami”, in Listen to the Voices from the Sea: Writings of the Fallen Japanese Students‎^[3], 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^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 December 2015, ASIA PACIFIC‎^[5]:

     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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