Beiping

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English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 北平 (Běipíng).

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Beiping

  1. (historical) Former name of Beijing.
    • 1992, Bevin Alexander, The Strange Connection: U.S. Intervention in China, 1944-1972, Greenwood Publishing Group, page 67:
      The year 1947 opened with massive anti-American demonstrations in several Chinese cities. The ostensible reason for the demonstrations was the alleged rape of a Chinese university student by two U.S. marines in Beiping, but antagonism against Americans went quickly beyond this criminal charge.
    • 2000, Marjorie Dryburgh, North China and Japanese Expansion, 1933-1937: Regional Power and the National Interest, Routledge, page 45:
      Even before his final resolution, Japanese pressure had begun to produce changes in north China beyond the immediate demands of the armies, as Huang Fu and He Yingqin, concluding that their positions in Beiping were now untenable, actively sought to disengage themselves from their responsibilities in the north. Huang Fu had spent much of spring 1935 in talks with the Japanese in Shanghai rather than in Beiping.
    • 2005, Israel Epstein, History Should Not be Forgotten, Beijing: China Intercontinental Press (五洲传播出版社), →ISBN, page 7:
      I witnessed the whole process of China’s war of resistance against Japanese aggression. In Beiping I heard the gunshots from Marco Polo Bridge, where the Chinese army fought the Japanese invaders. That was the start of China’s all-out resistance. But soon Beiping fell into Japanese hands.

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References

  1. ^ “Selected Glossary”, in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China, Cambridge University Press, 1982, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 476, 483:The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin, [] Pei-p'ing (Beiping) 北平

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