Posted by Dave Thewlis on March 31, 2003 at 00:27:49 from 148.78.245.13 user dthewlis.
In Reply to: Beijing/Peiping.Peking/Pekin (was Kanchenjun(g)a) posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on March 30, 2003 at 15:50:51:
Interestingly enough, although the oficial name is now Beijing (which I have been told means "Great Capital" or "Big Capital"), apparently there are two institutions or entities which retain "Peking" as their name. One is Peking University; when I taught a seminar there in 1998, I was told that as it had had the name Peking University for over a hundred years it was allowed to keep the name. I was never told what the other legitimate "Peking" is - unless it's Peking Duck.