Monday, October 13, 2008

Tianmen

Tianmen is a sub-prefecture-level city in Hubei Province, China.

It is on the west of Wuhan and east of Jingzhou. The old name is Jingling , which is where was from. It is the hometown of Lu Yu, who is regarded as the pioneer of planting Chinese tea widely.

In January 2008, a construction company general manager and blogger named Wei Wenhua was beaten to death by a group of at least 30 Chengguan for filming a dispute between villagers and government officials in Wanba, a village in Tianmen.

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