Why and when was the city of Peking changed to Beijing?
2007-02-21 06:04:30 · 2 answers · asked by eyedoc999 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
It is the same name - answer one is completely wrong in suggesting Mao changed it. What has happened is that the way of writing - or transliterating - Chinese characters into the Roman alphabet changed in 1979 when the pinyin system was adopted - it's very complicated as the Chinese languages use a lot of tones which are unknown in western languages. More detail can be found here:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin
Under Pinyin the word original written as 'Peking' is written as 'Beijing' in our Roman alphabet
2007-02-21 06:35:07 · answer #1 · answered by rdenig_male 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I beilive it was during the Revolution when Mao changed it. Peking is the old name, i think its mandarian, and beijing is cantonese. maybe its the other way around. but if this helps great
2007-02-21 14:13:14 · answer #2 · answered by skippy83 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋