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Taipei

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See also:TaipéiandTʻai-pei

English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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19th c., fromWade–Giles romanization ofMandarin臺北／台北 (Tʻai²-pei³, literally “Taiwan north”), composed of臺／台 (tái) (short forTaiwan) and北 (běi, “north”).

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Taipei

  1. Thecapital city of and a special municipality ofTaiwan, located in the northern part of the island of Taiwan.[from late 19th c.]
    • 1896, J. D. Clark,Formosa‎[6],Shanghai: Shanghai Mercury,→OCLC,page44:
      In 1885 Governor LIU determined to reconstructTaipei 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.
    • 1947 February 1, “China”, inForeign Commerce Weekly‎[7], volume XXVI, number 5,Washington, D.C.:Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce,→ISSN,→OCLC,page14, column 2:
      Radiotelephonic communications were established in November 1946 betweenTaipei and Canton, thus augmenting the line already existing betweenTaipei and Shanghai.
      The Chinese National Aviation Corporation, which operated air service between Shanghai andTaipei three times a week, has added weekly air service between Foochow andTaipei. 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.
    • 1964 November, “New Look at Changing China”, inNational Geographic Magazine‎[8], volume126, number 5,→ISSN,→OCLC,page641, column 2:
      The “Beautiful Island” wears a necklace of rails and new roads dangling fromTaipei, 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.
    • 2000,Chen Shui-Bian, “Learning and Transformation”, in David J. Toman, transl.,The Son of Taiwan: The Life of Chen Shui-Bian and His Dreams for Taiwan‎[9], Taiwan Publishing Co., Ltd.,→ISBN,→OCLC,page19:
      In my bid for re-election as mayor ofTaipei, 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 inTaipei cast their votes for Mr. Ma.
    • 2005,Bill Clinton,My Life‎[10], volume I,New York:Vintage Books,→ISBN,→OCLC,→OL,page219:
      Years later, when I was governor, I found myself in the same hotel with Nureyev inTaipei, Taiwan.
    • 2014,Lu Hsiu-lien, Ashley Esarey,My Fight for a New Taiwan‎[11],University of Washington Press,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC,→OL,pages19–20:
      We lived in the county of Taoyuan, in northern Taiwan, around twenty-five miles south of the capital ofTaipei.
    • 2014 December 17, Michael Gold, “Smoothie maker Jamba counts on Taiwan's thirst for fruit juice”, in Tony Tharakan, Clarence Fernandez, editors,Reuters‎[12], archived fromthe original on21 January 2024, Business:
      The California-based maker of health drinks aims to open its first outlet inTaipei as early as this summer, venturing into a highly fragmented market of mom-and-pop juice stores that have thrived for years.
    • 2022 April 14, Ben Blanchard, “Six U.S. lawmakers arrive in Taiwan on unannounced trip”, in Raissa Kasolowsky, editor,Reuters‎[13], archived fromthe original on14 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 atTaipei's downtown Songshan airport on a U.S. Air Force aircraft and were greeted by Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu.
    • For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:Taipei.
  2. A formercounty ofTaiwan, which becameNew Taipei City.[from 20th c.]
    • 2008, Scott B. Freiberger, “Taiwan From A to Z”, inTaipei in a Day‎[14],→ISBN,→OCLC,page123, column 1:
      A century ago, the cities ofTaipei 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.
    • 2011 March, Robert Kelly, Joshua Samuel Brown, “Northern Taiwan”, inTaiwan (Lonely Planet)‎[15], 8th edition,→ISBN,→OCLC,→OL,page120, 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 ofTaipei County lives by and for the production of high- and low-quality ceramic and pottery objects: everything from cupboard handles to Song-dynasty vases.
    • For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:Taipei.
  3. (metonymic) Thegovernment of theRepublic of China (Taiwan).[from 20th c.]
    • 1992,Richard Nixon, “The Pacific Triangle”, inSeize the Moment‎[16],Simon & Schuster,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC,page181:
      In the Shanghai Communiqué of 1972, we recognized the fact that both Beijing andTaipei 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.
    • 2003, “Decisive Dates”, in Vivien Kim, editor,Taiwan (Insight Guides)‎[17],→ISBN,→OCLC,page19, column 2:
      1993 The first official governmental contacts betweenTaipei and Beijing take place in Singapore.
    • For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:Taipei.

Usage notes

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  • Since the immediate aftermath ofWorld War II,[2][3] the city has almost universally been known asTaipei.[4] The Taiwan (ROC) government's official name for the city isTaipei, which has been adopted by geographic naming databases, international organizations, and by many other reference sources.
  • The choice between theHanyu Pinyin-derived nameTaibei and theWade–Giles-derived nameTaipei may be interpreted as having political overtones.[5]
  • Taipei was first used in the late 19th century, but during theJapanese rule of Taiwan (1895-1945),Taihoku became the more commonly-used name.[3]

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Translations

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the capital city of and a special municipality of Taiwan

References

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  1. ^Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Taipei, Taipeh, or T'ai-pei”, inThe Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[1], Morningside Heights, NY:Columbia University Press,→OCLC,page1864, column 3
  2. ^“China”, inForeign Commerce Weekly‎[2], volume XXII, number 7, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce,United States Department of Commerce, 16 February 1946,→ISSN,→OCLC,page26, column 2: “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.”
  3. ↑3.03.1“Taipei, Taipeh, Taihoku, T'ai-pei, Tai-pei, Taibei”, inGoogle Books Ngram Viewer (Archived)
  4. ^Alka Acharya;G. P. Deshpande (December2002), “A Taibei Diary”, inEconomic and Political Weekly‎[3], volume37, number49,Mumbai,→JSTOR, page4904, column 1: “The whole world spells the name of the capital of Taiwan with a 'p' rather than a 'b'.”
  5. ^Fish, Isaac Stone (15 January 2016), “Stop Calling Taiwan a ‘Renegade Province’”, inForeign Policy‎[4], archived fromthe original on15 January 2016‎[5]: “Mainland Chinese use a system for transcribing Chinese words into English letters called Pinyin, while Taiwan uses a system called Wade-Giles. “Taipei” is the Taiwanese spelling; Beijing prefers “Taibei,” the Pinyin version.”

Further reading

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Afrikaans

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Proper noun

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Taipei

  1. Taipei (thecapital city ofTaiwan)

Derived terms

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French

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Pronunciation

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Taipei m

  1. Taipei (acity inTaiwan)

Italian

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Proper noun

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Taipei ?

  1. Taipei (acity inTaiwan)

Japanese

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Romanization

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Taipei

  1. Rōmaji transcription ofたいぺい
  2. Rōmaji transcription ofタイペイ

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation:Tai‧pei

Proper noun

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Taipei m

  1. alternative form ofTaipé
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