Beijing - Wikipedia The English spelling Beijing is based on the government's official romanization (adopted in the 1980s) of the two characters as they are pronounced in Standard Mandarin An older English spelling, Peking, was used by Jesuit missionary Martino Martini in a popular atlas published in Amsterdam in 1655 [37]
What is the difference between Peking and Beijing? Peking and Beijing are two names for the same city, the capital of China However, many people may wonder what the difference is between these two names and why they are used interchangeably