Is it Bay-jing or Bay-zhing?

Question

The pronunciation of the city where the Olympics are?

Answer 1

I believe it's Bay-Jing

Answer 2

its bajing i think watch the olimpics or look it up  

Answer 3

bay jing

Answer 4

Beijing is pronounced Bay-jing in Chinese, though you'll be well understood in most countries if you say Bay-zhing.  If you want to be spot on, say "bay" with a kind of bounce to your intonation (down-up)and "jing" as a flat tone, slightly elongated.

Answer 5

bay zhing

Answer 6

Watch the olympics 'Beijing' there are logo's all over.

Answer 7

Beijing - pronounced 'bay-shing'.

Beijing: History

Pre-20th-Century History

Peopled some 500,000 years ago, the area that makes up today's Beijing sprouted as a frontier trading town for the Mongols, Koreans and tribes from Shandong and central China around 1000 BC. Burnt to the ground by Genghis Khan in 1215 AD, the resurrected city was passed on to Kublai Khan (Genghis's grandson) as Dadu, or Great Capital. The mercenary Zhu Yanhang led an uprising in 1368, taking over the city and ushering in the Ming dynasty. The city was renamed Beiping (Northern Peace) and for the next 35 years the capital was shifted to Nanjing. When it was shunted back, Beiping became Beijing (Northern Capital) and up went such foreboding structures as the Forbidden City.

Under the Manchu invaders, who established the Qing dynasty in the 17th century, Beijing was thoroughly renovated and expanded. From the beginning, however, it was obvious that any city proclaimed China's heart would endure a tumultuous existence.

Modern History

The Qing dynasty collapsed in the revolution of 1911 and the Nationalist party ostensibly seized control. In reality, true power remained in the hands of the warlords, who carved up China into their own fiefdoms.

In 1937, after decades of struggle between the Nationalists and the warlords, the Japanese invaded Beijing and soon overran eastern China. The Nationalist Party retreated west to the city of Chongqing, which became China's temporary capital during WWII. They returned to Beijing after Japan's defeat in 1945, but by this time the Chinese civil war was in full swing and their days were numbered.

With Mao Zedong's proclamation of a 'People's Republic' in Tiananmen Square in 1949, the Communists stripped the face of Beijing. The huge city walls were pulled down and the commemorative arches followed. (The Circle Line of the subway follows the outline of the now vanished walls of the Tartar city, a number of whose stops are named after the gates that stood there.) Hundreds of temples and monuments were destroyed. Blocks of buildings were reduced to rubble to widen the boulevards and Tiananmen Square. Soviet technicians poured in and left their mark in the form of Stalinesque architecture. This devastation of traditional Chinese culture was extended in 1966 when Mao launched the Cultural Revolution. China was to remain in the grip of chaos for the next decade. It wasn't until around 1979 that Deng Xiaoping - a former protege of Mao who had emerged as a pragmatic leader - launched a 'modernisation' drive. The country opened up and Westerners were finally given a chance to see what the Communists had been up to for the past 30 years.

In 1989 a massive pro-democracy student protest in Tiananmen Square was brutally crushed by Deng Xiaoping's government forces. That such an event could happen while capitalist-style reforms flooded the city with shopping malls and foreign money is the paradox of modern times in Beijing.

In 1995 Beijing played host to the United Nations' Conference on Women. Having lobbied the UN hard to get the conference, the Chinese then denied visas to at least several hundred people who wanted to attend because their presence was regarded as politically inappropriate. Beijing continued to frighten the horses when it fired missiles into the waters just off Taiwan in early 1996 in an unsuccessful effort to affect the outcome of the Taiwanese presidential election. There was a similar incident during Taiwan's 2000 presidential elections.

The Chinese takeover of Hong Kong soon after Deng Xiaoping's death in July 1997 was highly geared towards nationalism. The hand-over of Macau in December 1999 was a much tamer event.

Recent History

Beijing's undertaken an image makeover in recent times, which has included the abolition of the last of the city's official off-limit areas, established in the 1950s to quarantine the Cultural Revolution from foreign influences, and the successful pursuit of the 2008 Olympic Games; with the latter, however, propaganda benefits rather than sport may be foremost in the minds of Chinese officials, considering one proposal to stage beach volleyball games and part of the triathlon in Tiananmen Square.

The mood in today's Beijing seems very different from that of 1989. China has decided to embrace modernisation without evolving politically. There's a conspicuous absence of protest - it's been quashed and consigned to some deep subterranean level. For all the face-saving intellectual contortions, everyone knows it's Adam Smith and not Karl Marx at the rudder of this communist economy. Some of Beijing's problems are environmental rather than political, however - the Gobi desert is coming to town and the city is one of the most polluted in the world. The need for speedy economic expansion, magnified by preparations for the 2008 Olympics, will put extra pressure on an already degraded environment.

Answer 8

Bay-jhing probably

Answer 9

http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcb_china/200806...

Answer 10

They just had this in the My Yahoo! Section today and it is Bay-jing.