# Talk:Murder of Liu Mengying

Thanks for making the English article, I'm the blogger konomama who posted the photos of Tao & Liu in my blog post.
Regarding the location of the Supreme Court, I noticed Howard Chiang’s mistake when I read his book earlier. My hypothesis about the error is this: in news articles such as 陶思瑾案最高法院将提陶到京审讯 (Shishi Xinbao, 1932-09-28), Nanjing was simply referred to as “京”. For someone not acutely aware that “京” casually referred to Nanjing rather than Beijing at that time, mistaking Nanjing for Beijing is understandable since nowadays “京” almost exclusively refers to Beijing.
Here is the wiki article on Republican era Nanjing in Chinese so you can see that 南京 is shortened as 京 when it was the capital of the Republic of China.
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8D%97%E4%BA%AC%E5%B8%82_(%E4%B8%AD%E8%8F%AF%E6%B0%91%E5%9C%8B)
The railway connecting Nanjing to Shanghai used to be called "京沪铁路" in the same era. 
https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-hans/%E6%B2%AA%E5%AE%81%E9%93%81%E8%B7%AF
Based on Republican-era supreme court's history, it's clear that in 1932-1933, the court is in Nanjing instead of Beijing. The Beiyang government ended in 1928(Beijing was renamed Beiping when that happened, so "京" is reserved for Nanjing exclusively), and the Supreme Court moved from Beijing.
I do not know how to add this information to the English article properly as there is an error in the cited source itself, and it's a common knowledge error. Correcting it is not based on any original research.
If you can address this that will be great! Beodat (talk) 06:07, 26 August 2025 (UTC)

Thank you so much for your advice here. I'll correct it and write up a footnote to note the discrepancy. And thank you for making those pictures easy to find online! Generalissima (talk) (it/she)   06:56, 26 August 2025 (UTC)