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Why Is Peking Now Called Beijing?

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Language reform in the 1950s established an official Romanized spelling system for use in transcribing Chinese words in other languages. In the new (and current) system the old CHI and KI were replaced with JI, and, Běijīng was spelled "Beijing," and not "Peking" any more.

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