2014-11-04The history of Beijing is punctuated by greatness, turmoil, power and intrigue. Located neither by an ocean, not by a great river, the original city was strategically placed at a major divide between nomadic herding lands to the north and agricultural lands to the south.
2014-11-04Beijing is made up of the Chinese characters 北京. 北 (bei) means north and 京 (jing) is capital-thus Beijing means "northern capital."
2014-11-04The Imperial City, or Huangcheng in Chinese and literally "the inner city," is a section of the city of Beijing in the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties.
2014-11-04In December 1929, a Chinese paleoanthropologist named Pei Wenzhong discovered a complete skull of "Peking Man" on Dragon Bone Hill, northwest of Zhoukoudian.
2014-11-04Timeline of the city’s history.
