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The New York Times adopted "Beijing" in 1986, [6] with all major American media soon following. Elsewhere in the Anglosphere, the BBC switched in 1990. [7] "Peking" is still employed in terms such as "Pekingese", "Peking duck", "Peking Man" and various others, as well as being retained in the name of Peking University.
Beijing, [a] previously romanized as Peking, [b] is the capital city of China. With more than 22 million residents, [ 11 ] it is the world's most populous national capital city as well as China's second largest city after Shanghai . [ 12 ]
The Beijing dialect typically uses many words that are considered slang, and therefore occur much less or not at all in Standard Chinese. Speakers not native to Beijing may have trouble understanding many or most of these. Many of such slang words employ the rhotic suffix "-r", which is known as erhua. Examples include:
Peking Man (Homo erectus pekinensis) is a subspecies of H. erectus which inhabited what is now northern China during the Middle Pleistocene.Its fossils have been found in a cave some 50 km (31 mi) southwest of Beijing (then referred to in the West as Peking), known as the Zhoukoudian Peking Man Site.
Peking duck is a dish from Beijing [a] that has been prepared since the Imperial era. The meat is characterized by its thin, crispy skin, with authentic versions of the dish serving mostly the skin and little meat, sliced in front of the diners by the cook.
A Peking glass vase with lotus pattern from the Daoguang period. The color is named "Imperial Yellow" in reference to the banner of the Qing dynasty.. 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 century Beijing, China (then romanized as "Peking" in European writings).
Ivanka Trump wore diamond jewelry with a total value of $1.1 million at Donald Trump's inauguration. She wore the jewelry with gowns designed by Oscar de la Renta and Givenchy.
From 1927 to 1949, when Beijing was known as Beiping, Peking opera was known as Pingxi or Pingju to reflect this change. Finally, with the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the name of the capital city was reverted to Beijing, and the formal name of this theatre in mainland China was established as Jingju .