Referenced In

Jurassic Park
by Michael Crichton

"The shorthand is the 'butterfly effect.' A butterfly flaps its wings in Peking, and weather in New York is different."

The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano

"from Peking to Si‐ngan fu, viâ Pao‐ting, Cheng‐ting, Hwai‐luh, Taï‐yuan, Ping‐yang, and T’ung‐kwan, on the Yellow River."

The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano

"The vocabulary Hweï Hwei (Mahomedan) of the College of Interpreters at Peking transcribes King chao from the Persian Kin-chang..."

The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano

"“It is without exception the finest city I have seen in China; Peking and Canton will not bear comparison with it.”"

The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano

"In an itinerary from Ava to Peking..."

The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano

"Dr. Ernest Martin, late physician of the French Legation at Peking, in an article on La Couvade en Chine (Revue Scientifique, 24th March, 1894)"

The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano

"the date 1290 in the text would fix the period of Polo’s final departure from Peking."

The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano

"…an eminent Chinese scholar, Mr. W. F. Mayers, of Her Majesty’s Legation at Peking (letter dated 18th September, 1874)."

The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano

"and that from Shan-si and Peking down the Pe-ho."

The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano

"Note 10.—Public carriages are still used in the great cities of the north, such as Peking."

The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano

"and the king sent the Mongol envoys back to Peking."

The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano

"round the great White Pagoda at Peking are 108 pillars for illumination;"

The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano

"Cabs, Peking, ii. 211n"

The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano

"Mount, Green, in Palace grounds at Peking, i. 365, 370n, 372n"

The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano

"Yen-king (Old Peking), i. 375n, 376n"

The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano

"The vocabulary Hwei Hwei (Mahomedan) of the College of Interpreters at Peking transcribes King chao from the Persian Kin-chang."

The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano

"It is an interesting fact recorded in the Yüan shï that there was in the first half of the fourteenth century a settlement of Russians near Peking."

The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan

"I got my clothes, a rail ticket to Peking, and enough money to go to America."

The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan

"Before the second cold month began, First Wife returned from Peking, where she kept a house and lived with her two unmarried daughters."

The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan

"I paid an American‐raised Chinese girl in Peking to show me how."