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| | Beijing: beijing, beijing hotel, beijing university (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | The name was changed because jing means "capital" and the Kuomintang government in Nanking (now Nanjing) wanted to emphasize that Peking was not the capital of China, and that Peking's warlord government was not legitimate. |
 | | Commonly lauded as one of the highest achievements of Chinese culture, Beijing Opera is performed through a combination of singing, spoken dialogue, and codified action sequences, such as gestures, movement, fighting and acrobatics. |
 | | Much of Beijing Opera is carried out in an archaic stage dialect quite different from modern Standard Mandarin and from the Beijing dialect; this makes the dialogue somewhat hard to understand, and the problem is compounded if one is not familiar with Chinese, although modern theaters often have electronic titles in Chinese and English. |
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