• Sir Percy Cradock was manhandled by the Red Guards when he was stationed at the charge d'affaires office, Peking, during the Cultural Revolution?

Facts on topics related to Peking

Beijing

• Beijing Communist Party chief Li Ximing was a leading supporter of military action against the Tiananmen Square protests that resulted in the deaths of hundreds, possibly thousands, of people?
• French Sinologist Paul Pelliot was caught up in the Boxer Rebellion and trapped in the siege of Peking?
• British cyclist Simon Richardson won two gold medals and one silver at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing?
• Ireland's former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern presented an episode of GAA television programme The Road to Croker when the usual host was at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing?
• a Cossack community existed in Beijing as early as 1685?
• Bailin Temple in Beijing was not pillaged by Anglo-French forces in 1860 or by the Eight-Nation Alliance in 1900 because of the superstitious fear that Tibetan Buddhism inspired in the invaders?
• Beijing opera did not originate in Beijing but in the Chinese provinces of Anhui and Hubei?
• James Bennet was set to become Beijing correspondent for The New York Times when he instead was appointed the fourteenth editor-in-chief of The Atlantic Monthly in March 2006?
• Meng Xuenong was sacked as mayor of Beijing during the SARS crisis, but has now made a comeback as governor of Shanxi province?
• Tim Morehouse, a member of the U.S. fencing team at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, originally took up fencing in order to be excused from his high school gym class?