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Realtors in Peiping (once Peking) sat last week in doleful dumps. Not only has the Government of China removed from their city to Nanking (TIME, April 25, 1927), but Society and Business are flocking Southward too. Result: real estate values in Peiping had slumped down, last week, to one-third...
¶ The new Nationalist Government has long since changed the name of Peking, meaning "Northern Capital," to Peiping, "Northern Peace."
Correspondents and foreigners have mostly ignored the change; but last week the Christian Science Monitor, progressive, was observed to be carrying despatches dated from "Peiping (Peking)."
Architect Henry Killam Murphy is famed for his many notable successes in blending Occidental materials into Chinese style. He designed the building of Yenching College, Peiping, Yale-in-China, Changsha, and Gingling College, Nanking. He will now receive carte blanche to transform Nanking into a modern, imposing and yet Chinese...
¶ Mayor Ho Chi-Kung of Peiping urged Chinese to multiply more rapidly, last week, after discovering to his surprise and chagrin that the population of China has remained stationary at about 400,000,000 for the past two centuries.