Central Beijing, with the boundaries defined by the Ming and Qing era city walls still distinct to the east and southXinhuamen, the south gate ofZhongnanhai in central Beijing, with the slogan "Serve the People"
The nameBeijing was to distinguish the city fromNanjing to the south, and first applied informally during the reign of theYongle Emperor of theMing Dynasty, who preferred to rule from Beijing but was obliged to treat Nanjing as a secondary capital by the dynastic injunctions of his father theHongwu Emperor. The name continued a practice of several preceding dynasties—especially those of nomadic conquerers from the north such as theJin andLiao—of maintaining a number of separate capitals designated by their cardinal directions.(Canthis(+) etymology besourced?)
1976 [1966], Hao Ran, “Debut”, in Wong Kam-ming, transl.,Revolutionary Literature in China: An Anthology[4], White Plains, New York:M. E. Sharpe, Inc.,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC,page92:
Liu Lao-zheng sidled right up to Zao-hua and said: “That’s right. I went toBeijing [Peking] to visit with my daughter. Zao-hua, I hear that you have become the workpoint recorder.”[…] Liu Lao-zheng pulled out an abacus from a sack he was carrying over his shoulder. “Huala, huala,” he shook it several times and said: “I bought one inBeijing. I’ll lend it to you to use.”
Backhoes moved house by house, laying waste to a community called Xitai that was built in a plush green valley on the northern edge ofBeijing, only a short walk from the Great Wall of China.
2022 October 24, Li Yuan, “A Lonely Protest in Beijing Inspires Young Chinese to Find Their Voice”, inThe New York Times[7],→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on24 October 2022, Business[8]:
A protester unfurled two banners on a highway overpass in centralBeijing on Oct. 13, denouncing Xi Jinping as a “despotic traitor.” China’s censors went to great lengths to scrub the internet of any reference to the act of dissent, prohibiting all discussion and shutting down many offending social media accounts.
2023 March 22, “China: Sandstorms blanket Beijing as air pollution spikes”, inDeutsche Welle[9], archived fromthe original on22 March 2023[10]:
Beijing regularly faces dust storms in March and April due to its proximity to the Gobi desert as well as deforestation throughout northern China.
InBeijing’s view, in the absence of an explicit treaty provision, the central line of the main channel—the Thalweg principle—provided a legal basis for delimiting the boundary in the two rivers. On this basis,Beijing claimed that 600 of the rivers’ 700 islands—including Zhenbao Island on the Ussuri River, just 180 miles southwest of an important Soviet city, Khabarovsk—belonged to the P.R.C.
In the Shanghai Communiqué of 1972, we recognized the fact that bothBeijing and Taipei viewed Taiwan as part of China but unequivocally expressed our support for a peaceful settlement of the unification issue. While we should not alter the fundamental pillars of our policy, we should consider certain steps that will raise Taiwan's international standing.
Russian officials have raised increasingly frustrated requests for greater support during discussions withBeijing in recent weeks, calling on China to live up to its affirmation of a “no limits” partnership made weeks before the war in Ukraine began. But China’s leadership wants to expand assistance for Russia without running afoul of Western sanctions and has set limits on what it will do, according to Chinese and U.S. officials.
2023 June 15, Didi Tang, “Spotify removes protest song Glory to Hong Kong”, inThe Times[15],→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on15 June 2023, World[16]:
WhileBeijing has credited the law with restoring peace and order to the city, it has been criticised by rights groups and western governments for imprisoning pro-democracy activists and undermining civil freedoms.
^Chung, Karen Steffen (2016), “Wade–Giles Romanization System”, inThe Routledge Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language[2],Taylor & Francis,→ISBN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on25 December 2022, page769: “Some good choices still ended up causing confusion, such as the now nearly universal pronunciation of the Pinyin 'j' as in 'Beijing' as[ʒ] instead of[dʒ] as injingle, which would be a very close approximation of the correct[tɕ].”
^Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Peking”, inThe Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[3], Morningside Heights, NY:Columbia University Press,→OCLC,page1446, column 1: “ChinesePei-ching orPeking (both: bāʹjǐngʹ)”
^Wade-Giles-romanization, inEncyclopædia Britannica: "The Chinese themselves experimented with several systems to transcribe local expressions for non-Chinese publications, but in mainland China these were all replaced officially in 1979 by the clearer Pinyin romanization system."
2023 December 3, Shi Ming, “Chinas neue Westpolitik: Lieber zweimal hinsehen”, inDie Tageszeitung: taz[18],→ISSN:
Als im September die deutsche Außenministerin Annalena Baerbock im US-Fernsehen Chinas Staats- und Parteichef Xi Jinping unverhüllt als Diktator bezeichnete, bestellteBeijing umgehend den deutschen Botschafter ein.
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