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Google Books Ngram Viewer: Peking v. Beijing
Google Books Ngram Viewer is an interesting application for looking up the frequency of phrases in books over time. For example, I recently ran a search from 1800-2000 for the different spellings of 北京: Peking, Beijing, Peiping and Beiping. As expected, Peking is the dominant English name for 北京. Peiping appeared at some point in…