Tag Archives: Peking

Ghosts of Empire: Peking

A 1931 newsreel called “Ghosts of Empire: Peking” from the Port O’Call series by William M. Pizor.

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Photos of Beijing in the 1930s and ’40s

Old photos of Beijing by Hedda Morrison and Dmitri Kessel.

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The rise of Pinyin

A 1980 news story about the pinyin system of romanizing Chinese.

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