On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 8:46 AM, John Hudson <OM4T@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Sandy ........... do you have a brother Ian in Peking ?
No relatives there at all, though my grandfather fought there during
the Boxer Rebellion.
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/picturegalleries/5278200/Sign-language-week-48.html?image=12
>
> ps: the last Governor General of Hong Hong opinioned that calling Peking
> Beijing was a bit like labelling Rome as "Roma"
I certainly won't call Hong Kong "xian gang" or Macau "aomen" in English,
and I prefer "Canton" to "Guangzhou", but "Beijing" is fine by me.
--
Sandy Harris,
Quanzhou, Fujian, China
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