In November, Taylor Swift's 1989 tour is set to arrive in Shanghai, so it makes perfect sense that the singer launched an e-commerce store in China packed with merchandise. However, in a Facebook post by China's state media, CCTV News, the numbers '1989' have vanished from a picture of her wearing the fashion line.

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In fact, the items on the Heritage66 website - the Nashville-based partner that is commissioned to promote Taylor's products in China - have also had '1989' scrubbed out. That's because 1989 isn't just the name of Taylor's album or the year she was born; it's also the year when the Tiananmen Square massacre happened in China.

The highly-censored event saw hundreds of pro-democracy protesters killed by the Chinese government, and many think it's one of the reasons that the t-shirts have been censored.

Taylor Swift and Tiananmen Square also share the same initials, T and S, which appear on a hoodie above the year 1989. The items don't officially go on sale until August 8th, so until then, it doesn't seem like Chinese fans will know what the final products will look like. We just hope they're still able to get their hands on some Mei Mei (Taylor's Chinese nickname) merchandise...