Citations:Taipeh
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English citations of Taipeh
- 1898 March 26, “Extracts from Consular Reports”, in Pharmaceutical Journal[1], volume LX, number 1448, page 321:
- OPIUM SMOKING LICENSES are issued in connection with the Government Laboratory at Taipeh, where the imported opium is refined and put, in three different qualities, into 1-lb. tins for distribution and sale to licence-holders.
- 1903, James W. Davidson, editor, The Island of Formosa Past and Present[2], page 331:
- Now that the Imperial Body Guard was to be principally engaged to the south of Teckcham (Hsinchu) H.I.H. Prince Kitashirakawa removed his headquarters from Taipeh to Teckcham on the 31st of July. The arrival of His Highness was quite an event for the Teckham Chinese, and they turned out in large numbers at the station to welcome him.
- 1912 January 19, “Imperial Taiwan Railways”, in Railway Age Gazette[3], volume 52, number 3, New York, page 94:
- The removal of the capital of the island of Formosa from Tainanfu, on the coast, to Taipeh, gave Governor Liu Ming Chuan an excuse to construct a railway between the capital and the coast in spite of the opposition in Peking. In 1889 a twelve-mile line connecting Tuatutia and Saitingka was opened to traffic. The work was continued until 1893, at which time 62 miles were opened to traffic between Hsinchu and the northern port of Keelung. At this period the Peking government issued an order to suspend further construction work. All the collieries were closed, and, with the exception of passenger traffic there was little activity in transportation.
- 1950 January 16, “Formosa: Climax of the China Tragedy”, in Newsweek[4], volume XXXV, number 3, page 30:
- From his lofty holiday resort on the Sun and Moon Lake in inland Formosa, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek last week scurried back to his forest-cloaked GHQ on Mount Tsao, overlooking Taipeh, the island's capital.
- 1971, Andrew Boyd, Fifteen Men on a Powder Keg: a History of the U.N. Security Council[5], New York: Stein and Day, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 127:
- In August 1950 the Council rejected its Russian president’s proposal that a Peking representative should be invited under Article 32. This would have implied recognition of communist China as a state; and the Council, by a slim majority, was committed to the view that China was still legally represented by the government that had fled to Taipeh in 1949.
- 1984, Xing-hu Kuo, translated by Barrows Mussey, Free China Asian Economic Miracle[6], Germany: Seewald Publisher, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 7:
- The Republic of China had to withdraw from the UN as early as 1971; most of the world's countries maintain diplomatic relations with Peking only. Taipeh has thus become a political outcast.