Citations:Peking

English citations of Peking

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• 1654, Martini, Martin, John Crook (translator), Bellum Tartaricum, Or the Conquest of the Great and Most Renowned Empire of China by the Invasion of the Tartars‎^[1], London, pages 83

  The Emperour hearing of the ill success of his Affairs, began to think of leaving the Northern parts, where his Royal City of Peking is situated, and to pass to Nankuing which is far more Southward; but he was disswaded from this intended course as well by his loyal, as disloyal Subjects: by these, that they might give him up more speedily into the enemies hands, before their treachery was discovered; and by the others, left his flight might trouble the Kingdome more, and discourage all his Subjects from giving their best assistance; for they thought the City impregnable, being fortified with so strong a Garrison; nor did they doubt that the Kings presence would draw the forces of the whole Kingdom to him.:

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,^[2]

  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.]

• 1868, Robert Fortune, Yedo and Peking: A Narrative of a Journey to the Capitals of Japan and China‎^[3], London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, page 344:

  Having received permission to visit Peking from his Excellency the Hon. F. W. A. Bruce, Her Majesty’s Minister at the China Court, I left Tien-tsin for that place on the 17th of September.

• 1914, Frank L. Brown, A Sunday School Tour of the Orient‎^[4], Doubleday, Page & Company, page 307:

  While the main party was at Peking, Dr. Wilbur went northward to visit the interesting and important mission station at Kalgan.
  Kalgan is one hundred and twenty miles to the northwest of Peking, and is reached by a Chinese government railroad, the first railroad built by a Chinese engineer.

• 1951, Herbert Hoover, “Engineering in China 1899-1902”, in The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover, Years of Adventure 1874-1920‎^[5], New York: Macmillan Company, →OCLC, →OL, page 36:

  We arrived in Peking in March, 1899. After long sessions with Chang Yen-mao and his multitude of advisers, Chinese and foreign, it was decided that we should live in Tientsin, and that I should assemble the necessary engineering staff.

• 1972 February 20, President Richard Nixon, 15:48 from the start, in Nixon in China (The Film)‎^[6], Agana, Guam: Richard Nixon Presidential Library:

  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.

• 1978 January, Kuo-chun Chou, “Li Sze-kuang and Geomechanics”, in China Reconstructs‎^[7], volume XXVII, number 1, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10:

  Li Sze-kuang (fourth from right) on an observation tour in Peking district’s Yenching county.

• 1978 December, Huang Chung, quotee, “Some Basic Facts About Sports in China”, in China Reconstructs‎^[8], volume XXVII, number 12, Peking, →OCLC, page 4, column 2:

  China has eight physical culture institutes in Peking, Shanghai, Tientsin, Wuhan, Sian, Chengtu, Kwangchow and Shenyang. The one in Peking is the biggest, which has a current enrollment of 2,000.

• 1980, Gerald Ford, “Boyhood—and Beyond”, in A Time to Heal‎^[9], New York: Berkley Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 94:

  During our third day in Peking, we received word that Premier Chou En-lai would have dinner with us.

• 1983 October 16, “Officials Voice Concern Over Reagan's Trip”, in Free China Weekly‎^[10], volume XXIV, number 14, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:

  Officials of the Republic of China on Taiwan have expressed concern over U.S. President Ronald Reagan’s scheduled visit to Peking in April and said they hoped to see no adverse effects to the existing substantial relations between the ROC and the United States as a result of the trip.

• 1983 November 8, “QUAKE IN CHINA KILLS AT LEAST 30”, in The New York Times‎^[11], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015, page A6‎^[12]:

  The quake jolted most residents from their beds. Nearly everyone was asleep, said Li Jimin, a government official in Heze, 400 miles south of Peking.

• 1985 April 29, Daniel Southerl, “Saturday Night Fever in Peking”, in The Washington Post‎^[13], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 August 2023‎^[14]:

  It's Saturday night at the International Club in Peking, and the crowd is leaping, twisting, twirling -- and in some cases, just stomping on the dance floor. […]
  A ticket to these Saturday and Sunday night dances costs 15 yuan, or $5.35, which is a lot when one considers that the average Peking worker makes 60 to 70 yuan ($21 to $25) a month. […]
  But, he continued, "the experience of the Peking Municipal Communist Youth League shows that, as long as dance parties are organized and supervised well by the work units concerned and these units organize their own sentries, as long as the people attending these dances are given a little coaching in advance on what is meant by normal socializing and recreation, and as long as these dances are organized, led and guided properly, there will be no incidents."

• 1989 June 4, Kate Adie, 0:02 from the start, in Archive: Chinese troops fire on protesters in Tiananmen Square - BBC News‎^[15], Peking: BBC News, published 2014:

  The noise of gunfire rose from all over the center of Peking. It was unremitting.

• 1990, Arthur Waldron, The Great Wall of China: From History to Myth‎^[16], Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 236:

  Recent reports attribute the first walls in the Mu-t’ien-yü valley in Huai-jou county near Peking to the Northern Sung.

• 1991, Simon Long, Taiwan: China's Last Frontier‎^[17], St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page xvii:

  The Peking massacre marked the end of a chapter not just in China's ten-year pursuit of 'reform and the open door'. It also marked a turning point in relations with Taiwan, and the end of another chapter in China's international image, during which it had been possible to argue that the reintegration of China's 'separated territories' - Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao - could be achieved smoothly.

• 2010 December, John Pollock, A Foreign Devil in China, World Wide Publications, →ISBN, page 45:

  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.

• 2014, David Eimer, “The Arctic Borderlands”, in The Emperor Far Away: Travels at the Edge of China‎^[18], Bloomsbury USA, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 279:

  In 1858, the Treaty of Aigun formalised the division of Manchuria. Everything north of what the Russians call the Amur River and the Chinese the Heilongjiang, or Black Dragon River, was assigned to Russia. Two years later, more Manchu lands went north under the Treaty of Peking. In all, Russia acquired a million square kilometres of Outer Manchuria. It is a massive area. Stretching from the present Sino-Russian border to the shores of the Sea of Okhotsk, it includes what are now the major cities of the Russian Far East — Vladivostok, Khabarovsk and Blagoveshchensk — yet the tsar’s army barely had to fire a shot to attain it.

• 2018 [1990], John Blofeld, “My Preordained Destiny to Tread the Land of the Dragon”, in Daniel Reid, transl., My Journey in Mystic China: Old Pu's Travel Diary‎^[19], Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 12:

  “Mandarin” refers to the dialect of spoken Chinese that prevails in northern China, particularly Peking. Today it has become the national dialect and is referred to in mainland China as “common dialect” and in Taiwan as “national dialect,” but during the 1930s, very few people in southern China understood Mandarin.

• 2021 April 26, John J. Tkacik, Jr., “John J. Tkacik, Jr. On Taiwan: The last half century of Taiwan’s ‘unsettled’ status”, in Taipei Times‎^[20], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 April 2021, Editorials, page 6:

  In July, 1971, President Nixon’s national security advisor Henry Kissinger in Peking listened to Chiang’s arch-nemesis premier Zhou Enlai (周恩來) grumble, “You ... declared the status of Taiwan was still unsettled. Even up to the present day the spokesman of your State Department still says that this is your position.”

• 2023 April 12, John Bolton, “A New American Grand Strategy to Counter Russia and China”, in The Wall Street Journal‎^[21], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 April 2023, Opinion:

  Third, after Ukraine wins its war with Russia, we must aim to split the Russia-China axis. Moscow’s defeat could unseat Mr. Putin’s regime. What comes next is a government of unknowable composition. New Russian leaders may or may not look to the West rather than Beijing, and might be so weak that the Russian Federation’s fragmentation, especially east of the Urals, isn’t inconceivable. Beijing is undoubtedly eyeing this vast territory, which potentially contains incalculable mineral wealth. Significant portions of this region were under Chinese sovereignty until the 1860 Treaty of Peking transferred “outer Manchuria,” including extensive Pacific coast lands, to Moscow. Russia’s uncontrolled dissolution could provide China direct access to the Arctic, including even the Bering Strait, facing Alaska.

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

• 1971, Lyndon Johnson, “Challenge and Response: Vietnam 1964—1965”, in The Vantage Point‎^[22], Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 152:

  Fourth, knowing what I did of the policies and actions of Moscow and Peking, I was as sure as a man could be that if we did not live up to our commitment in Southeast Asia and elsewhere, they would move to exploit the disarray in the United States and in the alliances of the Free World. They might move independently or they might move together. But move they would — whether through nuclear blackmail, through subversion, with regular armed forces, or in some other manner. As nearly as one can be certain of anything, I knew they could not resist the opportunity to expand their control into the vacuum of power we would leave behind us.
  Finally, as we faced the implications of what we had done as a nation, I was sure the United States would not then passively submit to the consequences. With Moscow and Peking and perhaps others moving forward, we would return to a world role to prevent their full takeover of Europe, Asia, and the Middle East — after they had committed themselves.

• 1971, Central Intelligence Bulletin‎^[23], Directorate of Intelligence, page 5:

  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.

• 1975, “Collision Course in Vietnam (1965)”, in Kwan Ha Yim, editor, China & the U.S., 1964-72‎^[24], New York: Facts on File, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 77:

  Johnson Apr. 24 issued an executive order designating Vietnam and the waters adjacent to it a “combat zone.” The “combat zone,” according to Peking’s reading, included part of China’s territorial waters in the vicinity of Hsisha Island.

• 1980, Spiro Agnew, Go Quietly . . . Or Else‎^[25], New York: William Morrow and Company, →ISBN, page 34:

  I disagreed completely—and still do—with President Nixon's initiative to "normalize" relations with the People's Republic of China. The American people—against the will of the majority, if the polls are correct—have been forced to go along with the Carter administration's decision to repudiate our mutual defense treaty with the free Chinese regime on Taiwan, and to give Peking the diplomatic and economic muscle to seriously impair the security and prosperity of the seventeen million people on the island. This is a strange way to reward a loyal ally whose hardworking and creative citizens have made their country a model success story for the capitalistic free-enterprise system.

• 1995 [1994 July], Mainland Affairs Council, “Appendix II: Relations Across the Taiwan Strait”, in Words across the Taiwan Strait: A Critique of Beijing's "White Paper" on China's Reunification, University Press of America, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 111:

  In Peking's eyes, the "one country" is the "People's Republic of China," and Taiwan under the jurisdiction of the Republic of China can only be a "special administrative region" under Peking's rule. Although Peking may permit it to enjoy a "high degree of autonomy" within certain limitations, it must not violate the PRC "constitution" or the decrees of the "central government." This takes no account whatsoever of the existence of the Republic of China and indeed amounts to nothing more than annexing Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, and Matsu in the name of unifying China.

• 1996 March 15, Jonathan Mirsky, “Taiwan President visits islanders to bolster morale”, in The Times‎^[26], number 65,528, →ISSN, →OCLC, Overseas News, page 15, columns 1, 2:

  While the President was there, America announced that it was deploying two nuclear submarines to accompany its naval battle groups in the area. The growing American presence is being criticized not only by Peking. Some Taiwanese fear the US is heightening the tension.

• 2021 April 26, John J. Tkacik, Jr., “John J. Tkacik, Jr. On Taiwan: The last half century of Taiwan’s ‘unsettled’ status”, in Taipei Times‎^[27], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 April 2021, Editorials, page 6:

  Diplomatic correspondents who had crammed into the State Department’s press studio that Wednesday noon pestered Mr. Bray particularly about Taiwan’s sovereignty. If President Nixon were to recognize Peking as the “sole legal government of China,” would America perforce be obliged to recognize Peking’s sovereignty over Taiwan?

Other

• 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."

• 1625, Samuel Purchas, Pvrchas His Pilgrimes‎^[28], volume III, London, →OCLC, page 340:

  That Riuer of Nanquin which I called (Yamſu or) Ianſu, the ſonne of the Sea, goeth Northward to Nanquin, and then returning ſomewhat Southward, runneth into the Sea with great force; fortie myles from which it paſſeth by Nanquin. And that from hence to Pequin there might bee paſſage by Riuers, the Kings of China haue deriued a large Channell from this to another Riuer, called the Yellow Riuer, ſuch being the colour of that troubled water. This is the other famous Riuer of that Kingdome, in greatneſſe and note, which ariſesth without the Kingdome to the Weſt, out of the Hill Cunlun, conjectured to bee the ſame whence Ganges ariſeth, or one neere to it.