Beijing (redirect from Chinese Peking)
Beijing, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital city of China. With more than 22 million residents, it is the world's most populous national capital...
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Peking University (PKU) is a public university in Haidian, Beijing, China. It is affiliated with and funded by the Ministry of Education of China. The...
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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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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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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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Peking Man (Homo erectus pekinensis, originally "Sinanthropus pekinensis") is a subspecies of H. erectus which inhabited what is now northern China during...
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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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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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The Jakarta–Peking axis, also known as the Djakarta–Peking–Pyongyang–Hanoi–Phnom Penh Axis was a form of geopolitical alignment during the Cold War era...
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Moment in Peking is a 1939 English-language novel written by Lin Yutang. Moment in Peking may also refer to the following adaptations of the novel: Moment...
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The Peking Gazette was an official bulletin published with changing frequency in Beijing until 1912, when the Qing dynasty fell and Republican China was...
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Peking Union Medical College, also as Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, is a national public medical sciences research institution in Dongcheng, Beijing...
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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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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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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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Peking Express is a Dutch–Flemish reality game show that follows a series of couples as they hitchhike to or from Beijing (only in the first three seasons;...
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Front. In July 1937, Japan captured the former Chinese imperial capital of Peking after instigating the Marco Polo Bridge incident, which culminated in the...
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Peking Express is a Dutch/Flemish reality game show. Peking Express may also refer to: Peking Express (film), 1951 film starring Joseph Cotten, Corinne...
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Peking University Press (simplified Chinese: 北京大学出版社; traditional Chinese: 北京大學出版社; pinyin: Běijīng Dàxué Chūbǎnshè), shortly PUP, is the publishing house...
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The Peking Legation Quarter was the area in Beijing (Peking), China where a number of foreign legations were located between 1861 and 1959. In the Chinese...
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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 Pork (Chinese: 京都排骨; pinyin: jīngdūpáigǔ) is a Chinese meat dish, although the dish’s name would be better translated as "Capital Rib.” “Peking”...
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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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The President of Peking University is the chief administrator of Peking University, a major public academic institution of higher learning, located in...
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