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Beijing or Peking?
Mar 28, 2008 16:37
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  • RALPHH
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A Cantonese speaker would obviously only write 'Peking' if using romanisation, how they spell it should depend on which system of romanisation they are using.
Mar 28, 2008 17:52
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GUESTGUESTOKP So many masters needed to figure it out!
Mar 29, 2008 11:04
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Beijing or Peking?

Are you a contemporary and modern individual? Then Beijing.

Old and stock in a tree somewhere in history? Then Peking.
Aug 15, 2008 17:29
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GUEST15522 As I recall Mao changed Peking to Beijing some 50 years ago. The Peking duck is now called Beijing duck except here in the US. When I use the term Beijing duck I'm always corrected by my fellow Americans.
Aug 19, 2008 17:38
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I'm married to a Chinese woman from Beijing and have visited there many times. At no time did I ever hear the city referred to Peking, it is now Beijing whether anyone likes it or not. IMO, the people have accepted/adopted Beijing as the proper name. It's be almost 60 years since the name change and many of the "old guard" are gone/dead. The only Peking is the airport whose call letters are PEK. My guess is that Mao could not change that or he would have.
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