Definition of "Pekin"

The same country furnishes me with another instance of extended inland commerce. It is found worth while to keep up a mercantile communication between Pekin in China, and Petersburgh. And none of these instances of inland commerce exceed those of the courses by which, at several periods, the whole of the trade of the East was carried on.

1834 , “The Interest of Great Britain considered, with regard to her Colonies, and the Acquisitions of Canada and Guadoloupe.”, in Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin‎, volume II, Philadelphia: McCarty & Davis, page 198, column 2

His father, Tchoung-Heou, was living at Pekin when he was born ; and he was six years old when the former settled at Shang-hai.

1889, Jules Verne, translated by Virginia Champlin, The Adventures of a Chinaman in China‎, Lee and Shepard, page 16

The importance of the President in our foreign relations, when his power in that regard is considered in connection with his duty to take care that the laws are faithfully executed, and with his duty as Commander-in-Chief to direct the movements of the Army and Navy, may be noted in the authority which President McKinley exercised to take part in the so-called "Boxer War," in China. The lawless uprising in that ancient Empire against foreigners, which for the time being overthrew the power of the Imperial Government, exposed to danger the lives of the diplomatic representatives of foreign nations at Pekin, and brought about the murder of one of them. Uniting with other governments, President McKinley, without express Congressional authority, ordered the land and naval forces of the United States into a campaign to rescue the foreign legations which were besieged in Pekin.

1916, William Howard Taft, Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers‎, New York: Columbia University Press, pages 114–115

If you have seventeen days and £168 to spare, can satisfy the Iron Curtain authorities of your bona fides and your taste runs to marathon rail travel, you can now board the "Night Ferry" at Victoria and ride across the whole of Europe and Asia to Hanoi, capital of North Viet-Nam, changing carriage only at Brussels, Berlin, Moscow and Pekin.

1959 December, “Talking of Trains: Five trains to Hanoi”, in Trains Illustrated, page 579

Little detailed information is available on the series of violent shocks which occurred in Hopeh province, north-eastern China, in March 1966. The earthquake of 7 March (No. 184), whose epicentre was located in the region of Hsing-t'ai, about 400 km south-west of Pekin, probably caused extensive damage since the magnitude was 7 and the focus shallow. The New China agency reported 'various degrees of damage' in about thirty communes. The shock of 22 March (No. 185) was even more violent; its epicentre was near that of the previous shock, and it was felt over a wide area, including Pekin, 300 km away.

1970, Annual summary of information on natural disasters 1966‎, Belgium: Unesco, page 26