{"id":672,"date":"2007-03-22T16:09:57","date_gmt":"2007-03-22T08:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/why-beijing-was-spelled-peking\/"},"modified":"2007-09-26T15:27:24","modified_gmt":"2007-09-26T07:27:24","slug":"why-beijing-was-spelled-peking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/why-beijing-was-spelled-peking\/","title":{"rendered":"Why &#8216;Beijing&#8217; was spelled &#8216;Peking&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sino-platonic.org\/\"><em>Sino-Platonic Papers<\/em><\/a> has just released one of its popular back issues as a free PDF. This one, no. 19 (June 1990), deals with the common question of <em>What&#8217;s up with that &#8220;Peking&#8221; spelling, anyway?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As Bosat Man explains in &#8220;Backhill \/ Peking \/ Beijing&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The three main contributing factors to the discrepancy between Peking and Beijing are: <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>a plethora of romanizations<\/li>\n<li>a welter of local pronunciations, and<\/li>\n<li>phonological change over time.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He then goes into detail, especially about the third point. The whole work is just six pages, single spaced. Here it is: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/sino-platonic.org\/complete\/spp019_peking_beijing.pdf\">Backhill \/ Peking \/ Beijing<\/a>&#8221; (1 MB PDF). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sino-Platonic Papers has just released one of its popular back issues as a free PDF. This one, no. 19 (June 1990), deals with the common question of What&#8217;s up with that &#8220;Peking&#8221; spelling, anyway? As Bosat Man explains in &#8220;Backhill &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/why-beijing-was-spelled-peking\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,4,12,15,51,28,95,32,20,19,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beijing","category-china","category-chinese","category-chinese-characters","category-dialect","category-languages","category-linguistics","category-mandarin","category-pinyin","category-romanization","category-sino-platonic-papers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}