[Atmob-discuss] Comet Holmes

[Bruce Berger]

Bei (北) = north, Nan (南) = South, Jing (亰) = capital city (the embedded
chinese characters will probably NOT survive translation by the list
server.)

Bruce

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To: E.Talmadge Mentall
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Subject: Re: [Atmob-discuss] Comet Holmes

On 29 Oct 2007 at 10:28, E.Talmadge Mentall wrote:

> Apropos of your location: In my lifetime, the name has changed from
> Peiping, to Peking, to Beijing. I wish they would make up their minds.

Like St. Petersburg/Petrograd/Leningrad, some of the changes are political.
Peiping is what the Nationalist Chinese called it because their capital was
at Nanking.  I believe the word "Peking" included the idea that the city was
a capital.  "Beijing" is simply the correct pronunciation of "Peking," and
at some point the standard of transliteration of Chinese names changed
accordingly.

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