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'''Peking''', now usually pronounced and spelled '''Beijing''', has been the capital of [[China]] for hundreds of years.
== Spelling Variants ==
Modern name: Beijing<br>
Variants: Pekin/Peking<br>
== History ==
[[Battle of Peking]] 1860
==Records==
*See [[China]]
== External links ==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing Beijing] Wikipedia
*[http://beijing.virtualcities.fr/ Virtual Beijing], a  project which is part of a cluster of digital research platforms in urban history and development created by the Institut d'Asie Orientale (Lyons Institute of East Asian Studies). Includes Maps, Images and E Library. The main focus is on the period 1920s-1940s
===Historical books online===
*[https://archive.org/details/pekingoverlandro00thom/page/n5 ''Peking and the overland route''] Published by Thos. Cook & Son 3rd edition 1917 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/pekingnorthchina0000thom ''Cook’s Guide to Peking, North China, South Manchuria and Korea''] Published by Thos. Cook & Son 1924 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/pekingwhoswho1922 ''The Peking Who's Who 1922'']  Compiled by Alex. Ramsay. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/memoirsofmalayan0000purc/page/n5 ''The Memoirs of a Malayan Official''] by Victor Purcell 1965 Archive.org Lending Library. As a member of the Malayan Civil Service from 1921, he was soon after sent to Canton and Peking to study Chinese from [https://archive.org/details/memoirsofmalayan0000purc/page/100 page 101].
*[https://archive.org/details/midnightinpeking00fren_0  ''Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China''] by Paul French 2012. Archive.org Lending Library. A  true story of a 1937 murder of a British schoolgirl.
:[https://archive.org/details/MidnightInPeking  ''Midnight In Peking''] by Paul French. BBC Radio Reading audio May-June 2012. Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/podcast_rthkbookmarks_paul-french-on-midnight-pek_1000334705726 Paul French on ''Midnight in Peking''] 2013 podcast by Radio Television Hong Kong on Archive.org.  One way to listen online is to click on the "Source_url".
:Paul French is  the author of many books on the "old" period in China, including  ''The Badlands: Decadent Playground of Old Peking'' (2013) [https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/The_Badlands/HprQgLF8s2IC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PP1&printsec=frontcover Sample pages Google Books] and ''Bloody Saturday: Shanghai’s Darkest Day'', published 2017 [https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/Bloody_Saturday_Shanghai_s_Darkest_Day_P/gsEvDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PP1&printsec=frontcover Sample pages Google Books]. The day was Saturday, August 14, 1937, when the Japanese bombed the city.
*[https://archive.org/details/yearsthatwerefat008540mbp ''The Years That Were Fat. Peking: 1933- 1940''] by George N Kates with photographs by Hedda Hammer Morrison 1952. Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/yearsthatwerefat00kate/mode/2up 1967 reprint with better photographs] and title ''The Years That Were Fat: The Last of Old China''. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library
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Latest revision as of 12:10, 5 May 2021

Peking
Presidency:
Coordinates: 39.908173°N 116.3979°E
Altitude: 43.5 m (143 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name: Beijing
State/Province: Municipality of Beijing
Country: China
Transport links

Peking, now usually pronounced and spelled Beijing, has been the capital of China for hundreds of years.

Spelling Variants

Modern name: Beijing
Variants: Pekin/Peking

History

Battle of Peking 1860

Records

External links

  • Beijing Wikipedia
  • Virtual Beijing, a project which is part of a cluster of digital research platforms in urban history and development created by the Institut d'Asie Orientale (Lyons Institute of East Asian Studies). Includes Maps, Images and E Library. The main focus is on the period 1920s-1940s

Historical books online

Cook’s Guide to Peking, North China, South Manchuria and Korea Published by Thos. Cook & Son 1924 Archive.org
Midnight In Peking by Paul French. BBC Radio Reading audio May-June 2012. Archive.org
Paul French on Midnight in Peking 2013 podcast by Radio Television Hong Kong on Archive.org. One way to listen online is to click on the "Source_url".
Paul French is the author of many books on the "old" period in China, including The Badlands: Decadent Playground of Old Peking (2013) Sample pages Google Books and Bloody Saturday: Shanghai’s Darkest Day, published 2017 Sample pages Google Books. The day was Saturday, August 14, 1937, when the Japanese bombed the city.

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