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    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 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 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 Man (Homo erectus pekinensis) is a subspecies of H. erectus which inhabited what is now northern China during the Middle Pleistocene. Its fossils...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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 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 Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China by James M. Zimmerman is a non-fiction book published...
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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • Peking University Law School (Chinese: 北京大学法学院) is a law school of Peking University, a public research university in Beijing, China. Founded in 1904...
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    Herbst in Peking (Autumn in Beijing) is a band from Germany. It was formed in 1987 in East Berlin by singer and mastermind Rex Joswig and keyboard player...
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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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  • 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 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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    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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    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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  • Brill. p. 11. Balfour, Frederic Henry (1883). Idiomatic Dialogues in the Peking Colloquial for the Use of Students. SHANGHAI, HANKOW ROAD: Printed at the...
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