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English citations of Taipei

City in Asia[edit]

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Colorful brush strokes behind the words “Taipei” and “臺北”
The Taipei city emblem

Under the Qing (Ching)[edit]

  • 1889 May 18, “THE RETURNS OF TRADE, 1888.—IV. FORMOSA.”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette‎[1], volume XLII, number 1137, page 598, columns 2, 3:
    Through all this the Governor has pressed on his railway from Taipei, his new capital, to Kelung. Its completion awaits the boring of the tunnel through the range of hills which hems in the town of Kelung on the south, which is by no means an inconsiderable work ; but Mr. Chalmers expects that the end of another year will see it accomplished. Meanwhile passengers can travel eight miles and back from Taipei for ten cents ; and the passenger tickets are the handsome adhesive stamps which the Governor obtained from England for his new postal service, but which were found not adaptable to his postal regulations and therefore serve a new and unintended purpose ; “a vicissitude,” says Mr. Chalmers, “which is perhaps unique in the history of postage stamps.” […]
    It is interesting to learn that the progress of Taipei and Kelung is not so far interfering with the prosperity of Twatutia and Tamsui. The former is the open town that has never been formally opened, is the centre of the Formosan tea trade, and is nominally a part of its sea-port Tamsui. Here we read that the foreshore between the foreign hongs and the river has been filled in and bunded by Chinese capitalists, who are covering it with buildings for European residences, godowns and offices. The railway from Taipei to Changhua is to pass through Twatutia, and a bridge is being constructed across the river at the latter spot.
  • [1891 January 2 [1890 December 1], “POSTHUMOUS HONOURS TO A BRIGADIER-GENERAL.”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette‎[2], volume XLVI, number 1222, page 12, column 1:
    It is asked that in addition to receiving the posthumous honours usually accorded to a Commander-in-chief who died from the effects of services rendered in the field he should have a temple built to perpetuate hiy memory in the city of T'aipei Fu, and that his biography should be compiled by the Court Historians.]
  • 1892 December 9 [1892 October 22], “TYPHOONS IN FORMOSA.”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette‎[3], volume XLIX, number 1323, page 869, columns 1, 2:
    Just as the memorialist's writing (apparently on the 6th of September) a tremendous gale has sprung up in Taipei Fu and is doing a good deal of damage to the buildings there.
  • 1893 April 1, “THE CAMPHOR TRADE OF FORMOSA”, in Chemical Trade Journal‎[4], page 210:
    Under new regulations the purchasers of camphor are not allowed to approach the stills for fear of injury from the savages ; but four markets have been selected, viz.: Taipei, Tokoham, and Sokko-k'eng, and in Chung-lu, or middle district, Chipchipkoi and Tohchay, whither all produce is to be taken for sale.

Under the Republic of Formosa[edit]

  • 1895 July 15, “Riotous Proceedings in Northern Formosa”, in Bangor Daily Whig and Courier‎[5], volume LXII, number 167, page 2, column 7:
    These things happened at Taipei, the chief town of Northern Formosa, some seventeen miles by rail from Kelung, which the Japanese had captured on the third of June.

Under Japan[edit]

(Taihoku was more common in this period)

  • 1896, J. D. Clark, Formosa‎[6], Shanghai: Shanghai Mercury, →OCLC, page 44:
    In 1885 Governor LIU determined to reconstruct Taipei and make it the temporary capital until, the railway having on its way to Taiwan reached the old town of Changhua, in about the middle of Formosa, he should build a city near that place and make it, under the name of Taiwan, the capital of the province of Taiwan.
  • 1897 August 2, “NEWS FROM THE ORIENT”, in The Los Angeles Times‎[7], volume XVI, page 1, column 6:
    Fresh cases of the bubonic plague are reported in Taipei, making a total of 595 cases from the outbreak of the pestilence.
  • [1898 July [1895], J. D. D. La Touche, “Notes on the Birds of Northern Formosa.”, in Philip Lutley Sclater, Howard Saunders, editors, The Ibis, A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology (Seventh Series)‎[8], volume IV, number XV, London: Gurney and Jackson, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 373:
    74. EUPLOCAMUS SWINHOII Gould.
    This beautiful Pheasant is sometimes brought for sale to Taipei-fu. It is said to be rare in the North of Formosa. A friend of mine was told by the late Mr. Holst that it was very common in the mountains of Central Formosa.    ]
  • 1902 November, “THE DAI KAI.”, in The Japan Evangelist‎[9], volume IX, number 11, page 358, column 2:
    This latter subject came in quite appropriately as "the Ministerial Meeting" was attended by Chinese evangelists from Formosa. One spoke in English, and the other in Chinese, and were able to communicate with their Japanese brethren through Rev. Mr. Kawai, at Taipei, who accompanied them to the Conference and Synod.
  • 1916 April 13, Oswald Kendall, “The Romance of the Martin Connor”, in The Youth's Companion‎[10], volume 90, number 15, page 198, column 2:
    "Thet one in the Formosa Channel was tremenjus. The velocity of the wind tetched a ’undred and forty mile,—so it was computed at Taipei,— arfter which it blew the wind gedge away. Yer need a string to yer ’at in a breeze like thet!"
  • 1930 September, “Japanese Confectioners Study American Methods”, in The Manufacturing Confectioner‎[11], page 72, column 2:
    Mr. Mori's company has been in business 28 years, having been founded by the father of the present propritor[sic – meaning proprietor] in Formosa. It now operates plants at Taipei, Formosa, Manchuria, Osaka and Tokio.

Under the Republic of China[edit]

  • 1945 December, Resumption of United States Trade with the Far East: Reopening of Commercial Channels and Relaxation of Trade Controls‎[12], Far Eastern Unit, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, →OCLC, page 3:
    Formosa: Prewar conditions in Formosa were described in an article in FOREIGN COMMERCE WEEKLY of January 1, 1944. According to an announcement of the official Chinese News Service, there are to be 8 chief administrative subdivisions of Formosa. Although it is not known that their boundary lines will exactly coincide with those of the provinces under Japanese rule, this is probable. Names of the new hsien (districts), with corresponding Japanese province names in parentheses, are as follows: Taipei (Taihoku); Hsinchu (Shinchiku); Taichung (Taichu); Tainan (Tainan); Kaohsiung (Takao); Hwalienkan (Karenko); and Taitung (Taito). The Pescadores Islands form the eighth hsien. Nine cities will continue to be recognized as municipalities: Taipei (Taihoku); Taichung (Taichu); Tainan (Tainan); Chilung (Kiirun or Keelung); Kaohsiung (Takao); Hsinchu (Shinchiku); Chiayi (Kagi); Changhua (Shoka); and Pintung (Heito).
  • 1946 February 16, “China”, in Foreign Commerce Weekly‎[13], volume XXII, number 7, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, United States Department of Commerce, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 26, column 2:
    Recent reports from Taiwan (Formosa), although fragmentary, begin to give a picture of economic conditions following the conclusion of the war. Now officially referred to as Taiwan Province, the island's former Japanese administration is being replaced by Chinese officials with little change, at least as yet, in the administrative pattern. Although there is no indication that ideographs will be changed, Chinese readings rather than Japanese will be followed for place names. Taihoku, for example, will be read in our alphabet as Taipei. This city presumably will continue to be the capital of Taiwan.
  • 1947 February 1, “China”, in Foreign Commerce Weekly‎[14], volume XXVI, number 5, Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14, column 2:
    Radiotelephonic communications were established in November 1946 between Taipei and Canton, thus augmenting the line already existing between Taipei and Shanghai.
    The Chinese National Aviation Corporation, which operated air service between Shanghai and Taipei three times a week, has added weekly air service between Foochow and Taipei. The Southwest Aviation Corp. is reportedly planning a Canton-Taipei air service, and damaged Japanese military transport aircraft have been under repair for use on this route.
  • 1948 April, John W. Patton, “Veterinary Education in Formosa and Japan”, in Veterinary Medicine‎[15], volume XLIII, number 4, page 150, column 1:
    During the 51-year Japanese reign they converted the naturally beautiful land into a relatively modern one. Its Capitol, Taipei, is said to be the most modern and beautiful in all Asia. The telephone system in Taipei, for instance, was almost as large and more modern than the one in Shanghai. Its airfields are the best in the Orient.
  • 1956, “Formosa, China's Island Province—Its Jungle Tribes, Once Savage Head-hunters”, in Lands and Peoples: The World in Color‎[16], volume IV, The Grolier Society, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 233:
    Japan in her period of expansion and conquest in the Far East, forced China to cede her the island in 1895, but fifty years later, after World War II, Formosa was returned to China. When the Nationalists were pushed from the Chinese mainland in 1949, they established their headquarters on Formosa with their capital at Taipei.
  • 1964 November, “New Look at Changing China”, in National Geographic Magazine‎[17], volume 126, number 5, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 641, column 2:
    The “Beautiful Island” wears a necklace of rails and new roads dangling from Taipei, such as the 17-mile MacArthur Expressway linking the capital to the seaport of Chilung. Taiwan has two other international seaports —recently opened Hualien, on the east coast, and Kaohsiung, facing the mainland a scant 200 miles away.
  • 1965, George H. Kerr, “"Island X"”, in Formosa Betrayed‎[18], →LCCN, →OCLC, page 35:
    In late May, 1945, the administrative center of the capital (the jonai district) was laid waste by a spectacular "fire-carpet" laid down upon Taipei.
  • 1971, Lyndon Johnson, “Steady on Course: Vietnam 1963—1964”, in The Vantage Point‎[19], Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 54:
    From Saigon we flew to Manila, then on to Taipei, Bangkok, New Delhi, and Karachi. We returned to Washington on May 24.
  • 1975 June 1, “Nauru republic plans consulate”, in Free China Weekly‎[20], volume XVI, number 21, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:
    The Republic of Nauru will establish a consulate in Taipei next month. Hammer De Roburt, President and Minister for External Affairs of the Pacific Island Republic, arrived in Taipei May 24, in connection with the consulate's establishment.
  • 1989 June 21 [1989 June 20], “El Salvador's Vice President Visits Taiwan”, in Daily Report: China‎[21], numbers 81-118, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 81, column 2:
    General Wego W.K. Chiang, secretary general of the National Security Council, said that the visit of El Salvador Vice President Merino to Taipei on behalf of President Alfredo Cristiani was in response to an invitation of the ROC [Republic of China] Government which hopes to further strengthen bilateral relations between the two countries.
  • 1993, David L. James, “Taiwan”, in Doing Business in Asia‎[22], Cincinnati, Ohio: Betterway Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 150:
    Taipei, Taiwan's capital city and commercial heart, gives the business visitor the distinct impression that Taiwan will succeed in its economic ambitions. It is a lively, energetic city bursting with vitality. Its traffic jams and sprawling growth are characteristic of Taiwan's urgent quest for achievement.
  • 2000, Shui-Bian Chen, “Learning and Transformation”, in David J. Toman, transl., The Son of Taiwan: The Life of Chen Shui-Bian and His Dreams for Taiwan‎[23], Taiwan Publishing Co., Ltd., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 19:
    In my bid for re-election as mayor of Taipei, I lost to Ma Ying- jeou, representing the Kuomintang (KMT), Taiwan's ruling party. Analysis of the election results revealed that the overwhelming majority of "mainlanders"² in Taipei cast their votes for Mr. Ma.
  • 2005, Bill Clinton, My Life‎[24], volume I, New York: Vintage Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 219:
    Years later, when I was governor, I found myself in the same hotel with Nureyev in Taipei, Taiwan.
  • 2012 [1998 May 11], Zemin Jiang, “Tasks for Work Related to Taiwan in the New Circumstances”, in Selected Works of Jiang Zemin‎[25], volume II, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 131:
    On February 27, 1947, anti-smuggling officers of the Taiwan Tobacco and Wine Monopoly Bureau and police officers in Taipei savagely beat cigarette vendors and opened fire on a crowd, killing one bystander. The next day, the residents of Taipei staged a shopkeepers strike and held a demonstration to present a petition to the government demanding punishment of the perpetrators and compensation for the victims.
  • 2014, Lu Hsiu-lien, Ashley Esarey, My Fight for a New Taiwan‎[26], University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 19–20:
    We lived in the county of Taoyuan, in northern Taiwan, around twenty-five miles south of the capital of Taipei.
  • 2020 October 9, “Somaliland and Taiwan Outcasts united”, in The Economist‎[27], page 38:
    ONE IS A small, surprisingly successful and relatively democratic country bullied by a larger, dictatorial neighbour which considers it to be part of its own territory. The other is Taiwan. On September 9th Somaliland, a breakaway republic in the north of Somalia, opened a "representative office" in Taipei, the capital of Taiwan. It followed the opening in August of a similar Taiwanese office in Hargeisa, Somaliland's capital.
  • 2022 March 13, “More than 250 detained across Russia in protests against Ukraine invasion”, in The Times of Israel‎[28], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 March 2022:
    Meanwhile, Ukrainian nationals in Taiwan and supporters staged a march Sunday in Taipei to protest the Russian invasion.
  • 2022 April 14, Ben Blanchard, “Six U.S. lawmakers arrive in Taiwan on unannounced trip”, in Raissa Kasolowsky, editor, Reuters‎[29], archived from the original on 14 April 2022, Asia Pacific:
    The bipartisan group, which will meet with Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on Friday morning on their two-day visit, arrived at Taipei's downtown Songshan airport on a U.S. Air Force aircraft and were greeted by Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu.
  • 2022 May 7, “Fact Sheet on the National Endowment for Democracy”, in Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China‎[30], archived from the original on 2022-05-07, Top Stories‎[31]:
    8. From 27 to 30 March 2022, current NED President and CEO Damon Wilson led a delegation to Taiwan, and announced during a press conference that NED would co-host the 11th Global Assembly of the World Movement for Democracy with the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy in October 2022 in Taipei, giving support to the “Taiwan independence” forces under the disguise of democracy.
  • 2022 August 4, Chien-pang Liu, Matthew Mazzetta, “Taipei promotes app showing locations of air raid shelters”, in Focus Taiwan‎[32], archived from the original on 04 August 2022, Society:
    The Taipei City government on Thursday encouraged residents to download an app that can be used to search the locations of the city's 5,000-plus air raid shelters.
    Cheng Ta-chuan (鄭大川), a spokesman for the city's Building Administration Office, said Taipei currently has 5,771 air raid shelters, which can accommodate 12.87 million people, more than five times the city's population.
  • 2022 October 26, Jerry Grey, “NED’s Taipei stunt shows it is a ‘national endowment for hypocrisy’”, in Global Times‎[33], archived from the original on 2022-10-26, Opinion/Viewpoint‎[34]:
    The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is set to hold its annual democracy assembly in Taipei. Some people find this news surprising. That the meeting is being hosted by NED is not a surprise at all, but that they chose China's Taipei as the venue may be something of a surprise to some people. […]
    Once the reader embraces the information found in the report, the obvious answer to any questions as to why Taipei was chosen as the site of this summit will become clear. Taipei is the capital city of the Chinese province of Taiwan and NED are never happier when they are prodding US-perceived enemies with a sharp stick.
  • 2023 April 10, Richard Lloyd Parry, “China’s military practises sealing off and attacking Taiwan”, in The Times‎[35], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 April 2023:
    The PLA posted videos of a fighter jet taking off from the carrier. On Sunday the Eastern Theatre Command published an animated video of missiles being launched from the ground, sea and air and simulated images of Taiwan’s capital, Taipei, and the city of Kaohsiung in flames.
  • 2023 July 15, “Cross-Strait travel expo opens in Taipei”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency‎[36], archived from the original on 2023-07-17, Society‎[37]:
    The 2023 cross-Strait summer travel expo opened in Taipei on Friday, introducing a variety of tourist destinations on the mainland to Taiwan residents.

Former County[edit]

歡迎蒞臨
台北縣
Welcome to Taipei County
  • 1945 December, Resumption of United States Trade with the Far East: Reopening of Commercial Channels and Relaxation of Trade Controls‎[38], Far Eastern Unit, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, →OCLC, page 3:
    Formosa: Prewar conditions in Formosa were described in an article in FOREIGN COMMERCE WEEKLY of January 1, 1944. According to an announcement of the official Chinese News Service, there are to be 8 chief administrative subdivisions of Formosa. Although it is not known that their boundary lines will exactly coincide with those of the provinces under Japanese rule, this is probable. Names of the new hsien (districts), with corresponding Japanese province names in parentheses, are as follows: Taipei (Taihoku); Hsinchu (Shinchiku); Taichung (Taichu); Tainan (Tainan); Kaohsiung (Takao); Hwalienkan (Karenko); and Taitung (Taito). The Pescadores Islands form the eighth hsien. Nine cities will continue to be recognized as municipalities: Taipei (Taihoku); Taichung (Taichu); Tainan (Tainan); Chilung (Kiirun or Keelung); Kaohsiung (Takao); Hsinchu (Shinchiku); Chiayi (Kagi); Changhua (Shoka); and Pintung (Heito).
  • 1987 July 18 [1987 January], “Report on 1986 Human Rights Situation in Taiwan”, in China Report: Political, Sociological and Military Affairs‎[39], numbers 35-42, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 119‎[40]:
    The Chinshan Chemical Plant of China Metal Company in Chinshan Township, Taipei County, has been discharging waste gas and sewage containing strong acid for years. On 30 September, 50 protesting townspeople descended upon the factory, posted slogans, and overturned tables and chairs in a fit of outrage.
  • 2008, Scott B. Freiberger, “Taiwan From A to Z”, in Taipei in a Day‎[41], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 123, column 1:
    A century ago, the cities of Taipei County were rustic faming societies made up of mostly aboriginal tribes. After the Nationalists retreated to Taiwan in 1949 the area met with a vast influx of Chinese immigrants, and during the 1950s and 1960s small manufacturing facilities began appearing. Taipei County has since become a Taiwanese melting pot of sorts as young people relocate from overseas and southern parts of the island for advanced schooling and settle in the area.
  • 2009 February 9, “Lanterns, rice balls made for Lantern Festival”, in China Daily‎[42], archived from the original on 24 September 2023, 图片新闻, page 7‎[43]:
    People release sky lanterns to celebrate the traditional Chinese Sky Lantern Festival in Pingsi, Taipei County, Taiwan Province February 7, 2009.
  • 2011 March, Robert Kelly, Joshua Samuel Brown, “Northern Taiwan”, in Taiwan (Lonely Planet)‎[44], 8th edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 120, column 1:
    C is for Ceramics. C is for - Yingge? Well, not quite, but ‘Yingge is for ceramics’ is something almost any Taiwanese can chant. This little town in the very southern part of Taipei County lives by and for the production of high- and low-quality ceramic and pottery objects: everything from cupboard handles to Song-dynasty vases.
  • 2018 November 24, Tzu-ti Huang, “Taiwan elections: KMT candidate wins race for New Taipei mayor”, in Taiwan News‎[45], archived from the original on 24 November 2018:
    In what has been seen as a fiercely contested match, Hou faced stiff competition from Su, a veteran politician in Taiwan, who proved his mettle governing at the local level as the magistrate of Taipei County for two terms between 1997 and 2004. Taipei County was upgraded to the status as a special municipality in 2010 and renamed New Taipei.

Metonymy for the Government of the Republic of China (Taiwan)[edit]

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  • 1992, Richard Nixon, “The Pacific Triangle”, in Seize the Moment‎[46], Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 181:
    In the Shanghai Communiqué of 1972, we recognized the fact that both Beijing and Taipei viewed Taiwan as part of China but unequivocally expressed our support for a peaceful settlement of the unification issue. While we should not alter the fundamental pillars of our policy, we should consider certain steps that will raise Taiwan's international standing.
  • 1996 March 15, Jonathan Mirsky, “Taiwan President visits islanders to bolster morale”, in The Times‎[47], number 65,528, →ISSN, →OCLC, Overseas News, page 15, column 3:
    There is little doubt that while war fever has not gripped Taipei, its economic foundations are being shaken. The stock market rose yesterday, but only because the Government has pumped $1.5 billion (£1 billion) into it after $370 million was drained from banks, and stocks were sold by investors who are worried by the Chinese manoeuvres.
  • 2003, “Decisive Dates”, in Vivien Kim, editor, Tawian (Insight Guides)‎[48], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 19, column 2:
    1993 The first official governmental contacts between Taipei and Beijing take place in Singapore.
  • 2005, Jesse Helms, “Foreign Relations Experiences”, in Here's Where I Stand: A Memoir‎[49], New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 228–229:
    In 1979, following Jimmy Carter’s unexpected and unreasonable decision to transfer diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing, the Congress passed the Taiwan Relations Act to preserve our relationship with this courageous nation. We believed that it was vital for our allies and for those who were not our allies to know that the United States would not abandon its friends.
  • 2011, Henry Kissinger, On China‎[50], New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 492:
    Washington and Beijing inched closer to each other’s positions on Taiwan in 2003, after Taiwan’s President Chen Shui-bian proposed a referendum on applying for U.N. representation under the name “Taiwan.” Since such a move would have been a violation of American undertakings in the three communiqués, Bush administration officials conveyed their opposition to Taipei.
  • 2018 August 6, “Taiwan’s Kinmen island begins importing water from China”, in AP News‎[51], archived from the original on 07 March 2023:
    The Taiwanese-controlled island of Kinmen located just off the Chinese coast has begun importing water from its neighbor via a pipeline despite heightened tensions between Beijing and Taipei.
  • 2022 August 18, Sarah Marsh, Alexander Ratz, Ben Blanchard, “Taiwan envoy calls on Germany to up visits, military cooperation”, in Catherine Evans, editor, Reuters‎[52], archived from the original on 18 August 2022, Asia Pacific:
    Taiwan's de facto ambassador to Berlin praised what he said was the start of a shift by Germany towards a more assertive stance on China, and urged the government to further enhance relations with Taipei.
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