> Peking was the widely-accepted transliteration - until attitudes (and power) changed and the Chinese asked the world to use Beijing instead. An interesting e

> Peking was the widely-accepted transliteration - until attitudes (and power) changed and the Chinese asked the world to use Beijing instead. An interesting exception is [Peking University](http://english.pku.edu.cn/ http://english.pku.edu.cn/) which elected (and was permitted) to retain its venerable Romanized style.