Citations:Peiping

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English citations of Peiping

  • 1934 — Anon., All About Shanghai: A standard Guidebook, The University Press, Shanghai. 1983 reed., Oxford University Press, Oxford, →ISBN. p. 146;
    Peiping, one of the oldest cities in the world, and one of the most interesting! He who has not seen Peiping has really not seen the China of fable and history.
  • 1948 December 15, “Peace Talks”, in Evening Examiner[1], volume XCVII, number 139, Petersborough, page 2, column 1:
    Another force, also from the east, has by-passed Peiping and is striking southward. It apparently intends to swing eastward to form a junction, which probably will be effected near Langfang, on the railroad 30 miles southeast of Peiping.
  • 1955 February 12, “BULLETINS”, in The Daily Colonist[2], volume 97, number 53, Victoria, British Columbia, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 5:
    The Peiping radio said four U.S. Sabrejets violated Communist China's territorial air Friday in the coastal area of Liaoning province, Northeast China. The broadcast called it an act of war provocation.
  • 1956, Harry S. Truman, chapter 5, in Memoirs of Harry S. Truman: Years of Trial And Hope[3], volume II, Doubleday & Company, →OCLC, page 74:
    As soon as the cease-fire order was issued, Marshall set into motion the plans for the so-called executive headquarters, which was to be located in Peiping. Some delay was encountered, however, because the Communists found it difficult to bring enough officers to Peiping from their scattered units.
  • 1956, “CHINA (MAINLAND)”, in The New Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia Yearbook 1955[4], Unicorn Yearbook Service, page 72:
    In February, 1955, the Peiping radio announced that a new currency unit, worth 10,000 of the old, would be issued.
  • 1960, Communist China Digest[5], number 10, United States Joint Publications Research Service, page 4:
    In response to an invitation to visit China, an Uruguay parliamentary delegation arrived in Peiping 19 October. Chang Hsi-jo, president of the Chinese People's Institute of Foreign Affairs, gave a banquet for the delegation on the 20th. On the 29th, Chairman Chu Te received all members of the delegation.
  • 1963, Dwight Eisenhower, Mandate for Change 1953-1956[6], Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 482–483:
    At the end of the month India's Krishna Menon, sent to Peiping by Nehru to intercede on the Formosa crisis, reported China had agreed to release four American fliers.
  • On November 22, 1963, the governments of Afghanistan and Communist China signed a boundary delimitation treaty, the fifth agreement of this nature negotiated by the Peiping regime in recent years.
  • 1968, “PEKING (PEIPING)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica[8], volume 17, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 532, column 1:
    On July 7, 1937, the Japanese during maneuvers attacked the Marco Polo bridge (Lu-kou-ch'iao) across the Yung-ting Ho southwest of Peiping to sever the last railroad link with the rest of China.
  • 1979 March 18, “Peiping plot uses foreign journalists”, in Free China Weekly[9], volume XX, number 10, Taipei, page 1:
    Commenting on a wire service report of March 9 saying that a foreign journalist stationed in Peiping has been in contact with counterparts in Taipei via Tokyo tele-communications facilities, the GIO said "This is another form of Chinese Communist united front conspiracy carried out through foreign journalists."
  • 1980 December 7, “Yulin on Hainan”, in Free China Weekly[10], volume XXI, number 48, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 4:
    The United States once asked Communist China to permit US Seventh Fleet to dock at Shanghai, and Peiping considered the possibility of allowing the U.S. Navy to make use of port facilities at Yulin on Hainan Island, according to a top Chinese Communist official.