Beijing (redirect from Chinese Peking)
Beijing, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital of China. With more than 22 million residents, Beijing is the world's second most populous national...
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Peking University (abbreviated PKU or Beida) is a public university in Haidian, Beijing, China. It is affiliated with and funded by the Ministry of Education...
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Peking duck is a dish from Beijing that has been prepared since the Imperial era. The meat is characterized by its thin, crispy skin, with authentic versions...
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Peking Duk is an Australian electronic music band from Canberra, made up of disc jockeys and record producers Adam Hyde and Reuben Styles. The pair first...
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Peking Man (Homo erectus pekinensis) is a subspecies of H. erectus which inhabited the Zhoukoudian cave site in modern northern China during the Chibanian...
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Peking opera, or Beijing opera (Chinese: 京劇; pinyin: Jīngjù), is the most dominant form of Chinese opera, which combines instrumental music, vocal performance...
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Look up Peking in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Peking is an alternate and mostly obsolete romanization of Beijing, the capital city of the People's...
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The Convention of Peking or First Convention of Peking is an agreement comprising three distinct unequal treaties concluded between the Qing dynasty of...
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2022 Winter Olympics (redirect from 2022 Peking Olympic Games)
on 18 January 2022. Retrieved 18 January 2022. "Íslenski hópurinn á ÓL í Peking" [The Icelandic Group at the Olympics in Beijing]. www.isi.is/ (in Icelandic)...
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The Peking to Paris motor race was an automobile race, originally held in 1907, between Peking (now Beijing), then Qing China (now the People's Republic...
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Beijing Olympics (redirect from Peking Olympics)
Beijing Olympics may refer to: 2008 Summer Olympics, Games of the XXIX Olympiad 2022 Winter Olympics, XXIV Winter Olympic Games Beijing Paralympics (disambiguation)...
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The Battle of Peking (Chinese: 北京之戰), or historically the Relief of Peking (Chinese: 北京解圍戰), was the battle fought on 14–15 August 1900 in Beijing, in...
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The Peking Plan (or Operation Peking) was an operation in which three destroyers of the Polish Navy, the Burza, Błyskawica, and Grom, were evacuated to...
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The Blonde from Peking (French: La blonde de Pékin, Italian: La bionda di Pechino, German: Die Blonde von Peking, also known as Peking Blonde) is a 1967...
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Peking Road (/ˌpiːˈkɪŋ/) is a road between Nathan Road and Canton Road in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong. The road is mainly hotels and shopping area...
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Peking Union Medical College Hospital (PUMCH), also known as Beijing Xiehe Hospital (Chinese: 北京协和医院), is a large teaching hospital in Beijing, China....
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Zhoukoudian Peking Man Site (周口店北京人遗址), also romanized as Choukoutien, is a cave system in suburban Fangshan District, Beijing. It has yielded many archaeological...
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Peking Opera Blues (traditional Chinese: 刀馬旦; simplified Chinese: 刀马旦; pinyin: Dāo Mǎ Dàn; Jyutping: dou1 maa5 daan2; Cantonese Yale: Dòu Máah Dáan) is...
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53°50′24″N 9°24′5″E / 53.84000°N 9.40139°E / 53.84000; 9.40139 Peking is a steel-hulled four-masted barque. A so-called Flying P-Liner of the German...
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The Peking Hotel (Russian: гостиница Пекин) is a building in Moscow which houses a four-star hotel and an office complex. The building, which was designed...
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Days at Peking is a 1963 American epic historical war film dramatizing the siege of the foreign legations' compounds in Beijing (then still Peking, in English)...
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The Coldest Winter in Peking is a 1981 Taiwanese drama film directed by Pai Ching-jui, set in the Chinese capital Peking (Beijing) during the Cultural...
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Midnight in Peking is a true crime book by Paul French concerning the 1937 murder of Pamela Werner in Peking. It was first published by Penguin Australia...
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Moment in Peking is a novel originally written in English by Chinese author Lin Yutang. The novel, Lin's first, covers the turbulent events in China from...
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Peking glass, also known as Kangxi Glass, Qianlong Glass or Tao Liao Ping,[clarification needed] is a form of Chinese glassware that originated in 18th...
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Schools for Chinese opera (redirect from Peking Opera Academy)
and the National Taiwan College of Performing Arts in Taipei. In learning Peking opera, attending students developed skills in martial arts, acrobatics and...
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Beijing Government (redirect from Peking Government)
Beijing Government may refer to: Beijing Municipal People's Government, the city government of Beijing Politics of Beijing, a dual party-government system...
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Boxer Protocol (redirect from Peking Protocol)
Bruner, Katherine Frost; Matheson, Elizabeth MacLeod (eds.). The I. G. in Peking: Letters of Robert Hart, Chinese Maritime Customs, 1868-1907. Harvard University...
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SS City of Peking was an iron-hulled steamship built in 1874 by Delaware River Iron Ship Building and Engine Works, Chester, Pennsylvania for the Pacific...
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