Re: Renaming "traditional" names, Peking


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Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on March 18, 2005 at 11:15:07 from 213.38.124.194 user ACB.

In Reply to: Re: Renaming "traditional" names, Peking posted by John Wilson on March 17, 2005 at 22:53:22:

I believe that you are correct; the airport is still PEK on baggage tags.

Pinyin was developed as a transliteration scheme in the 1950's to cope with the influx of Russian "technical advisers" who needed to learn Mandarin Chinese in a hurry.


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