Nanching
See also: Nan-ching
English
Proper noun
Nanching
- Alternative form of Nanjing
- 1979 January 14, L. Chen, “End of ‘Peking' but now what?”, in Free China Weekly, volume XX, number 2, Taipei, ISSN 0016-0318, OCLC 1786626, page 3:
- We don’t know how soon this spelling will be accepted extensively elsewhere, but the city will be called “Peiping” (even though there is no peace there as the name suggests) by the free Chinese in Taiwan and the ROC Government will return to Nanking ("Nanching” or “Nanjing” depending on whether one uses the Wade or Yale system and meaning “southern capital”) when the mainland is recovered.