Citations:Peking

City in Asia

 * N.B. The extra "u" in Nankuing is a misprint. It doesn't appear in the Latin original: His auditis, cogitabat Imperator Borealem Peking Regiam relinguere, & Nanking Australem petere. (De Bello Tartarico historia, 1654, p. 69) Crook's translation has six examples of Nankuing, seven of Nanking. His map of China gives "Nanking" and "Peking."
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 * In the mean time news of the Emperours danger came to the Southern parts of China, and the Prefects of every City gathering together very great forces marched towards the City of Peking, but in their march they received the sad news of the Emperours death.
 * 1655 Martini, Martino, Novus Atlas Sinensis, page 27:
 * Prima Provencia, Peking, Sive Pecheli (Latin)
 * [1741, Uncredited translator, A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary by Jean-Baptiste du Halde, London: Edward Cave, page 235,
 * Before we left the Emperor's Preſence, he told us that he would go next Morning to his Pleasure-house of Chang chun ywen, two Leagues and a half to the West of Pe-king, and order us to come to him there every second Day, to continue our Exposition of the Elements and Geometry.]
 * This is not a time for a long speech but, I would not want this opportunity to pass without saying just a word with regard to the significance of this moment. Some of you may recall that it was two and a half years ago that right here in Guam, I announced a new direction for American foreign policy based on the principles of self-reliance, self-respect- equal dignity for all nations, large and small throughout the world. And tomorrow, I will take off from Guam for Shanghai and Peking, the first President of the United States ever to visit China. Guam, I know it is said, is where the American day begins. And I would hope that all of you today would join me in this prayer, that with this trip to China, a new day may begin for the whole world. Thank you very much.
 * Back at Tsingkiangpu the Bells had a taste of the unsettled state of China in the years when warlords ruled provinces on behalf of the government in Peking but were virtually independent autocrats clinging to power until toppled by another.
 * This is not a time for a long speech but, I would not want this opportunity to pass without saying just a word with regard to the significance of this moment. Some of you may recall that it was two and a half years ago that right here in Guam, I announced a new direction for American foreign policy based on the principles of self-reliance, self-respect- equal dignity for all nations, large and small throughout the world. And tomorrow, I will take off from Guam for Shanghai and Peking, the first President of the United States ever to visit China. Guam, I know it is said, is where the American day begins. And I would hope that all of you today would join me in this prayer, that with this trip to China, a new day may begin for the whole world. Thank you very much.
 * Back at Tsingkiangpu the Bells had a taste of the unsettled state of China in the years when warlords ruled provinces on behalf of the government in Peking but were virtually independent autocrats clinging to power until toppled by another.
 * This is not a time for a long speech but, I would not want this opportunity to pass without saying just a word with regard to the significance of this moment. Some of you may recall that it was two and a half years ago that right here in Guam, I announced a new direction for American foreign policy based on the principles of self-reliance, self-respect- equal dignity for all nations, large and small throughout the world. And tomorrow, I will take off from Guam for Shanghai and Peking, the first President of the United States ever to visit China. Guam, I know it is said, is where the American day begins. And I would hope that all of you today would join me in this prayer, that with this trip to China, a new day may begin for the whole world. Thank you very much.
 * Back at Tsingkiangpu the Bells had a taste of the unsettled state of China in the years when warlords ruled provinces on behalf of the government in Peking but were virtually independent autocrats clinging to power until toppled by another.
 * Back at Tsingkiangpu the Bells had a taste of the unsettled state of China in the years when warlords ruled provinces on behalf of the government in Peking but were virtually independent autocrats clinging to power until toppled by another.
 * Back at Tsingkiangpu the Bells had a taste of the unsettled state of China in the years when warlords ruled provinces on behalf of the government in Peking but were virtually independent autocrats clinging to power until toppled by another.
 * Back at Tsingkiangpu the Bells had a taste of the unsettled state of China in the years when warlords ruled provinces on behalf of the government in Peking but were virtually independent autocrats clinging to power until toppled by another.
 * Back at Tsingkiangpu the Bells had a taste of the unsettled state of China in the years when warlords ruled provinces on behalf of the government in Peking but were virtually independent autocrats clinging to power until toppled by another.
 * Back at Tsingkiangpu the Bells had a taste of the unsettled state of China in the years when warlords ruled provinces on behalf of the government in Peking but were virtually independent autocrats clinging to power until toppled by another.
 * Back at Tsingkiangpu the Bells had a taste of the unsettled state of China in the years when warlords ruled provinces on behalf of the government in Peking but were virtually independent autocrats clinging to power until toppled by another.
 * Back at Tsingkiangpu the Bells had a taste of the unsettled state of China in the years when warlords ruled provinces on behalf of the government in Peking but were virtually independent autocrats clinging to power until toppled by another.
 * Back at Tsingkiangpu the Bells had a taste of the unsettled state of China in the years when warlords ruled provinces on behalf of the government in Peking but were virtually independent autocrats clinging to power until toppled by another.
 * Back at Tsingkiangpu the Bells had a taste of the unsettled state of China in the years when warlords ruled provinces on behalf of the government in Peking but were virtually independent autocrats clinging to power until toppled by another.
 * Back at Tsingkiangpu the Bells had a taste of the unsettled state of China in the years when warlords ruled provinces on behalf of the government in Peking but were virtually independent autocrats clinging to power until toppled by another.

Metonymy for the Government of the People's Republic of China

 * COMMUNIST CHINA: Peking is expanding its naval activity in the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea some 200 miles southeast of Hai-nan Island.
 * COMMUNIST CHINA: Peking is expanding its naval activity in the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea some 200 miles southeast of Hai-nan Island.
 * COMMUNIST CHINA: Peking is expanding its naval activity in the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea some 200 miles southeast of Hai-nan Island.

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 * 1552, Xavier, Francis, "Letter to Didaco Perriera," 12 Nov 1552. Epistolae S. Francisci Xaverii aliaque eius scripta, vol. 2.
 * porque se à China vou em hum de dous lugares me parece que me há de achar, ou hé estarei captivo no tronco de Cantāo, ou he estarei no Paquim, donde dizem que continuadamente está el-Rey. (Portugese) (If you go to China, you will find me either a captive in Cantāo [Guangzhou] or in Paquim [Beijing], where they say the king resides.)
 * 1573, Ortelius, Abraham, Theatrum orbis terrarum: Antuerpiae : Auctoris aere & cura impressum, absolutumq́ue apud Aegid. Coppenium Diesth, 1573. The city is marked as "C. Paquin" on a map of China.
 * 1596, Raleigh, Sir Walter, and Robert O. Dougan, (1596), The Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana, p. 50.
 * "They went by land fower hundred leagues, and came unto the citie of Pekin, where the king was for this province and countrey is the biggest that is in the worlde."