1988, Wei-ping Liu, Readings in Modern Chinese [现代中文选读][1], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 74:
Lǎo Shě is the pen-name of Shū Qìngchūn (1899-1966). Born in Běijīng of Manchu ancestry, he graduated from Běijīng Normal College in 1917 and spent several years as a school teacher before going to England, where he taught Chinese in the School of Oriental Studies at London University.
Once I arrived in Běijīng, he made me feel completely welcome at the institute and facilitated my research.[…] The title Peking man itself had a double meaning: it represented both the early twentieth-century people of Běijīng, whose traditional attitudes threatened their very survival, and the creatures of half a million years earlier, for whom customs meant nothing and adapting to nature's laws was a way of life.
2012, Wang Ronghua, The Story of China Studies[3], Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Co., →ISBN, page [4]:
The uprising troops marched into Běijīng and Tiānjīn and killed some foreigners in May and June of 1900, while the eight powers, namely the UK, Germany, Russia, France, the United States, Japan, Italy and Austria formed an army of over 2,000 soldiers and began their attack on Běijīng and Tiānjīn.
2015, Derek Padula, Dragon Soul: 30 Years of Dragon Ball Fandom[5], →ISBN, →OCLC:
I ask them, "Aren't you afraid of practicing here in Běijīng, where the persecution is the strongest? That's like being Jewish in Nazi controlled Germany."[…] So after that I decided to go to Shàolín, and took a shuttle service from Hong Kong, which was a 47-hour train ride to Zhèngzhōu. But I arrived there at night, and the city is like nothing when you arrive. It's not a big city like Běijīng.
2017, Katia Chirkova, Yiya Chen, “Běijīng, The Language of”, in Encyclopedia of Chinese Languages and Linguistics[6], volume I, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-17:
Situated for many centuries in the borderlands between China proper and the Altaic peoples to its north, the predecessor cities of present-day Běijīng served as capital to many non-Chinese dynasties, such as Jīn 金 (1115-1234), Yuán 元 (1260-1368), and Qīng 清 (1644-1911).[…]Especially during the Míng 明 period (1368-1644), the transfer of the capital to Běijīng in 1421 led to a sizeable migration from the central linguistic zone of China to the new capital.
Běijīng is a year-round destination, but the spring months from April to May and the autumn months from September to November promise the best weather – cool nights, pleasantly warm days and limited rainfall.
2021, Linda Jaivin, The Shortest History of China: From the Ancient Dynasties to a Modern Superpower—A Retelling for Our Times[8], Black Inc., →ISBN, page [9]:
Běijīng’s insistence that it defines human rights differently than the West does little to reassure its critics.
