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Radio Beijing International

radio station in Beijing

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ4881209 ↗
Source-derived summary

Radio Beijing International (Chinese: 北京外语广播, literally Beijing Foreign Language Broadcast) is a radio station which broadcasts on FM92.3 AM774. The radio station is part of the Radio Beijing Corporation.

There are many languages represented on this radio station including Japanese and English with the commercials, announcements and station identification done in Mandarin Chinese.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Radio Beijing International” is radio station in Beijing. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Radio, Beijing and International, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current 53-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Radio, Beijing and International is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “radio station in Beijing” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4881209. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Radio Beijing International”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Radio Beijing International primary sources, Radio Beijing International archive and Radio research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Radio Beijing International”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Radio Beijing International” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.