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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.
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American and British missionaries and their converts took refuge in the Methodist Mission and American marines repulsed an attack there by the Boxers. Soldiers at the British embassy and German legations shot and killed several Boxers. [13] The siege was called by the New York Sun "the most exciting episode ever known to civilization." [14]
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.
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Sliced Peking duck served with traditional condiments. Beijing cuisine is the local style of cooking. Peking duck is perhaps the best known dish. Fuling jiabing, a traditional Beijing snack food, is a pancake (bing) resembling a flat disk with a filling made from fu ling, a fungus used in traditional Chinese medicine. Teahouses are also common ...
Peking is an alternate and mostly obsolete romanization of Beijing, the capital city of the People's Republic of China. Peking may also refer to: Peking, a 1911 German square-rigged sailing ship launched; 2045 Peking, an asteroid named for the city; Local nickname of the Swedish town Norrköping