THE OPENING AND NEW USES OF TIANANMEN SQUARE AT THE BEGINNING OF TWENTIETH CENTURY
THE OPENING AND NEW USES OF TIANANMEN SQUARE AT THE BEGINNING OF TWENTIETH CENTURY
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二十世纪初天安门广场的开放和新用途
DOI:
10.3130/aija.81.499
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发表时间:
2016
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通讯作者:
Koji Ichikawa
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作者:
Koji Ichikawa
This paper aims to grasp the changes of Tiananmen Square at the beginning of the 20th century by using public documents, newspapers, and other literature. In the Ming and Qing eras, Tiananmen Square was originally a "forbidden square", however after the Boxer Rebellion and the Xinhai Revolution, the square became a public space on New Year’s Day in 1913. After opening to the public, several new gates were built in order to improve the accessibility of Tiananmen Square. Some organizations even planed to turn the square into a commercial district, but it failed to realize. On the contrary to the newly allowable public access, the security of Tiananmen became stricter, and the Beijing Government monopolized the square sometimes and used it for some events such as Yuan Shikai’s military parades on National Foundation Day in 1913 and 1914. It can be said that Tiananmen Square had characters of both a “forbidden square” and a public space at this time.