A reliable estimate was made that about 700 students had been seized in Taibei by March 13. Two hundred are said to have been seized in Keelung. Fifty are reported to have been killed at Matsuyama and thirty at Kokuto (suburbs of Taibei) on the night of March 9.
Taiwan had been colonized by the Chinese in the seventeenth century, and won by the Japanese from China in the 1894-1895 war. The Japanese had done much to develop industry and agriculture on the island. Japan's defeat in World War II restored the island to China, as a separate province. Chiang now declared that Taiwan was still a province of China, and its capital, Taibei, was now the new capital of the nation. The circumstance that 99.7% of the nation's territory was controlled by Communist bandits was only temporary, he said, and he would soon recapture it from them.
I remember lying awake in the wet winter rawness and the suffocating summer heat of Taibei, capital of Chiang Kai-shek's China, the one we were still welcome in, dreaming of the real China.
This street was paved in 1968 by the paper company that runs a factory in Shisantian just above and to the south of Ploughshare, and Front Street was paved and concrete gutters added, crossed by sturdy motorcycle ramps, as part of a local construction project sponsored by the Taibei County government in 1972.
1984, Tong B. Tang, “Science and Technology in Taiwan”, in Science and Technology in China[5], London: Longman, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 201:
Tainan used to be the seat of the provincial government, which is now at Taizhong to the north, while the ‘national’ government sits at Taibei which is further to the north.
Since then the authorities both in Beijing and in Taibei have made efforts to collect, to preserve, to organize, and to publish the documents on a scale which would have been unthinkable under the old regime.
2005, A New Constitution for Taiwan: Symposium on a New Constitution for Taiwan[7], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 116:
These were on one hand aimed at giving moral support to Syu and Cai, and on the other to call for the freedom to support independence. These events included the one in Taijhong on Oct 17, the one in Fongshan the following day, and one in Taibei on Oct 30.
2021 August 24, Martin Heijdra, ““They had a really interesting Library.” - Yü Ying-shih”, in Princeton University Library[8], archived from the original on 29 August 2021:
Professor Yü had also taught in Hong Kong, and had been a tenured professor at Harvard University, Yale University, and Princeton University, while he was since 1974 a Fellow of the Academia Sinica, Taibei. He retired to Emeritus status in 2001.
2022 August 10, “Full Text: The Taiwan Question and China's Reunification in the New Era”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency[9], archived from the original on 10 August 2022:
On October 25 the Chinese government announced that it was resuming the exercise of sovereignty over Taiwan, and the ceremony to accept Japan's surrender in Taiwan Province of the China war theater of the Allied powers was held in Taibei (Taipei).
The Dapenkeng culture was so named after one of its sites was discovered in 1964 at Dapenkeng near the township of Bali, Taibei county by teachers and students of Taiwan University.
I worked as a coal miner in Shiwufen, in Taibei County. It was an hour's walk from our house; there were no cars then, so I walked to work.
2004, Scott Simon, “From Hidden Kingdom to Rainbow Community: The Making of Gay and Lesbian Identity in Taiwan”, in David K. Jordan, Andrew D. Morris, Marc L. Moskowitz, editors, The Minor Arts of Daily Life: Popular Culture in Taiwan[12], Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 73:
Although not all Taiwanese men are so inclined, there are ample opportunities for men to seek erotic pleasure outside of marriage in Taiwan. For mere visual pleasure, female strippers are sometimes part of the entertainment at rural temple fairs and even funerals, and scantily clad young women selling betel nuts adorn the highways from Taibei County to Pingdong.