Almost anyone can recognize the Gate of Heavenly Peace emblazoned with a portrait of Chairman Mao as a symbol of Beijing. The square is the geographic, political and tourist center of the city ...

The memorial hall is shaped like a square with coverage of 20,000 square ... In the center of the hall erects Chairman Mao's three-meter-high sitting statue made of white marbles.

Achill man John Gielty recalls how a picture of The Mayo News in front of Chairman Mao almost got him into trouble ...

Tiananmen, or the Gate of Heavenly Peace, is where Chairman Mao proclaimed the founding of the People’s Republic on 1 October 1949. Just north of the square lies the Imperial Palace (Gugong ...

The chairman Mao Zedong Memorial Hall stands on the former sits of Zhonghuamen Gate at the southern end of Tian'anmen Square between the Monument to the People's Heroes and Zhengyangmen Gate.