Talk:Portraits overlooking Tiananmen
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[edit]The draft currently, and I think rightly, talks about portraits of people other than Mao. This doesn't match its current title. How about retitling it "Portraits overlooking Tiananmen"? -- Hoary (talk) 00:18, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
- @Hoary Hehe, please do. I thought "Portraits overlooking Tiananmen" is the name of the work. Don't mind me, you can also make other necessary changes as I would be fine with it. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 13:41, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
Opening sentence
[edit]I read:
- Portraits overlooking Tiananmen is a hand-painted, framed, oil portrait of Chairman Mao Zedong overlooks Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China.
Putting aside the grammar mistake, this seems to imply that there exists an art work whose title is Portraits overlooking Tiananmen (or anyway some title in Chinese that could reasonably be so englished). There is not. I'll wager that there never has been. The article explains that a succession of portraits have overlooked Tiananmen: usually, one at a time; but for a short period, two.
(The portrait may have a title; the article doesn't say. Karkafs Desiderium, do you happen to know about the titles of some or all of these portraits?) -- Hoary (talk) 13:37, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
- The portrait of Mao and that of Kai both have no name, they are simply portraits of them. Karkafs Desiderium (talk) 16:53, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
Who hung the Sun portrait?
[edit]Until a moment ago, this article read "In 1925 the Nationalist Government of the Republic of China hung up a portrait of Chinese statesman Sun Yat-sen at Tiananmen gate, after his death in March that year." This cannot possibly be right, since the Northern Expedition wasn't until a couple years later. The NYT source only says that it was hung in '25, without saying who did it. If I had to guess, this was when the Guominjun held influence over the Beiyang Government, but without an actual source to clear this up I've edited it, for the time being, to say simply "the government." Nicknimh (talk) 23:12, 17 November 2024 (UTC)
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