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|coordinates=[http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=39.908173,116.39795&z=10&t=h&hl=en 39.908173°N 116.3979°E] | |||
|altitude=43.5 m (143 ft) | |||
|presentname= [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing Beijing] | |||
|stateprovince= Municipality of Beijing | |||
|country=[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China China] | |||
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'''Peking''', now usually pronounced and spelled '''Beijing''', has been the capital of [[China]] for hundreds of years. | |||
== Spelling Variants == | == Spelling Variants == | ||
Modern name: Beijing<br> | Modern name: Beijing<br> | ||
Variants: Pekin/Peking<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 | |
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| 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
- See China
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
- Peking and the overland route Published by Thos. Cook & Son 3rd edition 1917 Archive.org
- Cook’s Guide to Peking, North China, South Manchuria and Korea Published by Thos. Cook & Son 1924 Archive.org
- The Peking Who's Who 1922 Compiled by Alex. Ramsay. Archive.org
- 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 page 101.
- 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.
- 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.
- The Years That Were Fat. Peking: 1933- 1940 by George N Kates with photographs by Hedda Hammer Morrison 1952. Archive.org. 1967 reprint with better photographs and title The Years That Were Fat: The Last of Old China. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library