tianmen

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1. A sub-prefectural city of Hubei, China.

   “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.”

   “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.”

   “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.”

   “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.”