Peiping
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- Pei-p'ing (also from Wade–Giles)
- Beiping (also from Hanyu Pinyin)
Etymology edit
From Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 北平 (Pei³-pʻing²).
Proper noun edit
Peiping
- (dated) Beijing.
- 1934 — Anon., All About Shanghai: A standard Guidebook, The University Press, Shanghai. 1983 reed., Oxford University Press, Oxford, →ISBN. p. 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.
- 1968, “PEKING (PEIPING)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica[1], volume 17, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 532, column 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.
- 1979 March 18, “Peiping plot uses foreign journalists”, in Free China Weekly[2], volume XX, number 10, Taipei, page 1:
- 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."
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Peiping.
- 1934 — Anon., All About Shanghai: A standard Guidebook, The University Press, Shanghai. 1983 reed., Oxford University Press, Oxford, →ISBN. p. 146;
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “Peiping”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.