Peiping

See also: Pei-p'ing

English

Alternative forms

• Pei-p'ing (also from Wade–Giles)
• Beiping (Hanyu Pinyin)

Etymology

From Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 北平 (Pei³-pʻing²).

Pronunciation

• enPR: bā′pĭng′
• Hyphenation: Pei‧ping

Proper noun

Peiping

1. (history) Former name of Beijing.
   • 1934, “Excursion From Shanghai”, in All About Shanghai: A Standard Guidebook, Oxford University Press, published 1983, →ISBN, →OCLC, 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.

   • 1968, “PEKING (PEIPING)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica‎^[2], 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^[3], 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.

Derived terms

• Peiping duck
• Peipinger
• Peipingese

Further reading

• “Peiping”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.