Beiping

Alternative form of Peiping.

Proper noun

  1. Alternative form of Peiping.
    • The year 1947 opened with massive anti-American demonstrations in several Chinese cities. The ostensible reason for the demonstrations was the alleged rape of a Chinese university student by two U.S. marines in Beiping,...
    • Even before his final resolution, Japanese pressure had begun to produce changes in north China beyond the immediate demands of the armies, as Huang Fu and He Yingqin, concluding that their positions in Beiping were now...
    • I witnessed the whole process of China’s war of resistance against Japanese aggression. In Beiping I heard the gunshots from Marco Polo Bridge, where the Chinese army fought the Japanese invaders. That was the start of...

Origin

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 北平 (Běipíng).

Forms

Peiping Pei-p'ing