- You can’t miss visiting Tiananmen Square , Lao Beijing (old Beijing), Forbidden city , Great Wall , Temple Hoping , Silk Market , Summer Palace , and try Peking...
- If it is pronounced "Peking", or similar, that is surely a result one of the conventional pronunciation of the Kanji characters, not the name of the capital itself.
- Thus the capital became “Beijing” rather than Peking, “Canton” became Guang zhou, etc. When did China change from Peking to Beijing?
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- Also known as: Beiping, Cambaluc, Chung-tu, Dadu, Khan-baliq, Khanbaliq, Pei Chih-li, Pei-ching, Pei-p’ing, Peking, Ta-tu, Yanjing, Yen-ching, Zhongdu.
- Beijing (formerly transliterated "Peking") literally means Northern Capital, a role it has played many times in China's long history.
- And tomorrow, I will take off from Guam for Shanghai and Peking, the first President of the United States ever to visit China.
- In English, both "Pekin" and "Peking" remained common until the 1890s, when the Imperial Post Office adopted Peking.