Beijing’s Name Change: How and When Did it Happen?

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Why did Peking change its name to Beij

Why did Peking change \\nits name toBeijing? When did this happen? Whose decision \\nwas this? If the city has gone through this official name change then, why isBeijingstill sometimes referred to as \\n“Peking” by locals and \\nforeigners? The answer to all \\nthese puzzling questions is really quite simple. The Chinese capital did not \\nchange its name but Chinese words began to be spelled in English differently. In \\nChinese, the name stayed exactly the same and most Chinese people are not even \\naware that some Westerners think that there has been a name change. The old \\nspelling has

Beijing’s Name Change: How and When Did it Happen?

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