Re: Why Beijing?

Geoff wrote:
Dylan Sung wrote:

"Geoff" <grw888@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

Peking (it was closer to beh-ging) was the local pronunciation 150 years
or so ago when the British started making postal atlases of China and

Or may have been influenced from missionary romanisations of Chinese. In old
Wade Giles, it is <pei> for modern pinyin <bei>. There is T'aipei on the
former 'Formosa' or what is now Taiwan.


Note Mathews (first ed. in about 1930) romanizes 北京 in W-G as Pê ching

I'm sure we've been over all this years ago.

Francisco Varo (_Arte de la Lengua Mandarina_, 1703) wrote "Pě kīng".

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