Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

Monument to the People's Heroes

Index Monument to the People's Heroes

The Monument to the People's Heroes is a ten-story obelisk that was erected as a national monument of the People's Republic of China to the martyrs of revolutionary struggle during the 19th and 20th centuries. [1]

34 relations: Beijing, Cenotaph, China, Chinese Civil War, Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Destruction of opium at Humen, Fangshan District, First Opium War, Granite, History of Beijing, Hu Yaobang, Jintian Uprising, Liang Sicheng, Lin Huiyin, Mao Zedong, Marble, Mausoleum of Mao Zedong, May Fourth Movement, May Thirtieth Movement, Nanchang uprising, Obelisk, Post-Soviet states, Qingdao, Relief, Second Sino-Japanese War, Shandong, Taiping Rebellion, Tiananmen Incident, Tiananmen Square, Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, Wuchang Uprising, Xinhai Revolution, Yangtze River Crossing Campaign, Zhou Enlai.

Beijing

Beijing, formerly romanized as Peking, is the capital of the People's Republic of China, the world's second most populous city proper, and most populous capital city.

New!!: Monument to the People's Heroes and Beijing · See more »

Cenotaph

A cenotaph is an empty tomb or a monument erected in honour of a person or group of people whose remains are elsewhere.

New!!: Monument to the People's Heroes and Cenotaph · See more »

China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

New!!: Monument to the People's Heroes and China · See more »

Chinese Civil War

The Chinese Civil War was a war fought between the Kuomintang (KMT)-led government of the Republic of China and the Communist Party of China (CPC).

New!!: Monument to the People's Heroes and Chinese Civil War · See more »

Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference

The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), also known as the People's PCC (人民政协) or just the PCC (政协), is a political advisory body in the People's Republic of China.

New!!: Monument to the People's Heroes and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference · See more »

Destruction of opium at Humen

The destruction of opium at Humen began on 3June 1839 and involved the destruction of 1,000 long tons (1,016 t) of illegal opium seized from British traders under the aegis of Lin Zexu, an Imperial Commissioner of Qing China.

New!!: Monument to the People's Heroes and Destruction of opium at Humen · See more »

Fangshan District

Fangshan District is situated in the southwest of Beijing, away from downtown Beijing.

New!!: Monument to the People's Heroes and Fangshan District · See more »

First Opium War

The First Opium War (第一次鴉片戰爭), also known as the Opium War or the Anglo-Chinese War, was a series of military engagements fought between the United Kingdom and the Qing dynasty of China over their conflicting viewpoints on diplomatic relations, trade, and the administration of justice in China.

New!!: Monument to the People's Heroes and First Opium War · See more »

Granite

Granite is a common type of felsic intrusive igneous rock that is granular and phaneritic in texture.

New!!: Monument to the People's Heroes and Granite · See more »

History of Beijing

The city of Beijing has a long and rich history that dates back over 3,000 years.

New!!: Monument to the People's Heroes and History of Beijing · See more »

Hu Yaobang

Hu Yaobang (20 November 1915 – 15 April 1989) was a high-ranking official of the People's Republic of China.

New!!: Monument to the People's Heroes and Hu Yaobang · See more »

Jintian Uprising

The Jintian Uprising was an armed revolt formally declared by Hong Xiuquan on 11 January 1851 during the late Qing Dynasty.

New!!: Monument to the People's Heroes and Jintian Uprising · See more »

Liang Sicheng

Liang Sicheng (20 April 1901 – 9 January 1972) was a Chinese architect and scholar, often known as the father of modern Chinese architecture.

New!!: Monument to the People's Heroes and Liang Sicheng · See more »

Lin Huiyin

Lin Huiyin (known as Phyllis Lin or Lin Whei-yin when in the United States; 10 June 1904 – 1 April 1955) was a noted 20th-century Chinese architect and writer.

New!!: Monument to the People's Heroes and Lin Huiyin · See more »

Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong (December 26, 1893September 9, 1976), commonly known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who became the founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he ruled as the Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976.

New!!: Monument to the People's Heroes and Mao Zedong · See more »

Marble

Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, most commonly calcite or dolomite.

New!!: Monument to the People's Heroes and Marble · See more »

Mausoleum of Mao Zedong

The Chairman Mao Memorial Hall, commonly known as the Mausoleum of Mao Zedong, is the final resting place of Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China from 1943 and the Chairman of the Communist Party of China from 1945 until his death in 1976.

New!!: Monument to the People's Heroes and Mausoleum of Mao Zedong · See more »

May Fourth Movement

The May Fourth Movement was an anti-imperialist, cultural, and political movement growing out of student participants in Beijing on 4 May 1919, protesting against the Chinese government's weak response to the Treaty of Versailles, especially allowing Japan to receive territories in Shandong which had been surrendered by Germany after the Siege of Tsingtao.

New!!: Monument to the People's Heroes and May Fourth Movement · See more »

May Thirtieth Movement

The May Thirtieth Movement was a major labor and anti-imperialist movement during the middle-period of the Republic of China era.

New!!: Monument to the People's Heroes and May Thirtieth Movement · See more »

Nanchang uprising

The Nanchang Uprising was the first major Kuomintang–Communist engagement of the Chinese Civil War, begun by the Communists to counter the anti-communist purges by the Nationalist Party of China.

New!!: Monument to the People's Heroes and Nanchang uprising · See more »

Obelisk

An obelisk (from ὀβελίσκος obeliskos; diminutive of ὀβελός obelos, "spit, nail, pointed pillar") is a tall, four-sided, narrow tapering monument which ends in a pyramid-like shape or pyramidion at the top.

New!!: Monument to the People's Heroes and Obelisk · See more »

Post-Soviet states

The post-Soviet states, also collectively known as the former Soviet Union (FSU) or former Soviet Republics, are the states that emerged and re-emerged from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in its breakup in 1991, with Russia internationally recognised as the successor state to the Soviet Union after the Cold War.

New!!: Monument to the People's Heroes and Post-Soviet states · See more »

Qingdao

Qingdao (also spelled Tsingtao) is a city in eastern Shandong Province on the east coast of China.

New!!: Monument to the People's Heroes and Qingdao · See more »

Relief

Relief is a sculptural technique where the sculpted elements remain attached to a solid background of the same material.

New!!: Monument to the People's Heroes and Relief · See more »

Second Sino-Japanese War

The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan from July 7, 1937, to September 2, 1945.

New!!: Monument to the People's Heroes and Second Sino-Japanese War · See more »

Shandong

Shandong (formerly romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the East China region.

New!!: Monument to the People's Heroes and Shandong · See more »

Taiping Rebellion

The Taiping Rebellion, also known as the Taiping Civil War or the Taiping Revolution, was a massive rebellion or total civil war in China that was waged from 1850 to 1864 between the established Manchu-led Qing dynasty and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom under Hong Xiuquan.

New!!: Monument to the People's Heroes and Taiping Rebellion · See more »

Tiananmen Incident

The Tiananmen Incident took place on April 5, 1976, at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China.

New!!: Monument to the People's Heroes and Tiananmen Incident · See more »

Tiananmen Square

Tiananmen Square is a city square in the centre of Beijing, China, named after the Tiananmen ("Gate of Heavenly Peace") located to its north, separating it from the Forbidden City.

New!!: Monument to the People's Heroes and Tiananmen Square · See more »

Tiananmen Square protests of 1989

The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, commonly known in mainland China as the June Fourth Incident (六四事件), were student-led demonstrations in Beijing, the capital of the People's Republic of China, in 1989.

New!!: Monument to the People's Heroes and Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 · See more »

Wuchang Uprising

The Wuchang Uprising was an armed rebellion against the ruling Qing dynasty that took place in Wuchang, Hubei, in China.

New!!: Monument to the People's Heroes and Wuchang Uprising · See more »

Xinhai Revolution

The Xinhai Revolution, also known as the Chinese Revolution or the Revolution of 1911, was a revolution that overthrew China's last imperial dynasty (the Qing dynasty) and established the Republic of China (ROC).

New!!: Monument to the People's Heroes and Xinhai Revolution · See more »

Yangtze River Crossing Campaign

The Yangtze River Crossing Campaign was a military campaign launched by the People's Liberation Army to cross the Yangtze River and capture Nanjing, the capital of the Nationalist government, in the final stage of the Chinese Civil War.

New!!: Monument to the People's Heroes and Yangtze River Crossing Campaign · See more »

Zhou Enlai

Zhou Enlai (5 March 1898 – 8 January 1976) was the first Premier of the People's Republic of China, serving from October 1949 until his death in January 1976.

New!!: Monument to the People's Heroes and Zhou Enlai · See more »

Redirects here:

Monument to the Peoples' Heroes, People's Heroes Monument, Rénmín Yīngxíong Jĭnìanbēi, 人民英雄紀念碑, 人民英雄纪念碑.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_to_the_People's_Heroes

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »