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This is not as easy a question as you might think. I would say Nanking, since it was the capital from 1940 until 1949.
During 1949, however, the Chiang Kai-Shek-led Republic of China and the Mao Tse-Tun-led Communistsfought for control of the country, and as Mao's forces won more and more of the country, the capital of the Republic of China was shifted four times.
After Chiang's forces were defeated and his government retreated to Taiwan, the U.S. regarded his government as the "real" China(ignoring the Communist People's Republic of China, which governed hundreds of millions in mainland China)and regarded Taipei, the capital of Taiwan, as the capital of China. Eventually the U.S. recognized the existence of the PRC, but some people might argue that until then, the official capital of China in the view of the U.S. was Taipei.
The capital of the People's Republic of China since October 1949 (a couple months before the end of China's civil war) has always been Beijing.
I'll just mention that during WWII, which for China started in 1937, the site of the capital was Chongqing, and that China in some form or another has been in existence for over 25 centuries and so has had during that time dozens of capitals. However, since 1644, Beijing has been the capital for a large majority of the time, followed in frequency by Nanking.
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