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Peiping
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Pei-p'ing
English
Alternative forms
en Pei-p'ing also from _ Wade-Giles
en Beiping Pinyin
Etymology
From en cmn-wadegiles - romanization of en cmn 北平 Pei³-pʻing².
Pronunciation
bā′pĭng′en 1952 Peking Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 1446 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/1446/ 1
en Pei ping
Proper noun
en history en Beijing.
en 1934 Excursion From Shanghai All About Shanghai: A Standard Guidebook w:Oxford University Press 1983 0-19-581594-7 16647598 146 https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780195815948/page/146/ Peiping, one of the oldest cities in the world, and one of the most interesting! He who has not seen Peiping has really not seen the China of fable and history.
en 1968 PEKING (PEIPING) w:Encyclopedia Britannica https://archive.org/details/encyclopdiabrita17chic/ 17 68-10064 1036882 532 https://archive.org/details/encyclopdiabrita17chic/page/n585/ 1 On July 7, 1937, the Japanese during maneuvers attacked the Marco Polo bridge (Lu-kou-ch'iao) across the Yung-ting Ho southwest of Peiping to sever the last railroad link with the rest of China.
en https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1979-03-18_20_10 March 18, 1979 Peiping plot uses foreign journalists Free China Weekly XX 10 Taipei 1 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1979-03-18_20_10 Commenting on a wire service report of March 9 saying that a foreign journalist stationed in Peiping has been in contact with counterparts in Taipei via Tokyo tele-communications facilities, the GIO said "This is another form of Chinese Communist united front conspiracy carried out through foreign journalists."
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Derived terms
en Peiping duck
en Peipinger
en Peipingese
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