Definition of "Taipeh"

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.

1898 March 26, “Extracts from Consular Reports”, in Pharmaceutical Journal‎, volume LX, number 1448, page 321

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.

1950 January 16, “Formosa: Climax of the China Tragedy”, in Newsweek‎, volume XXXV, number 3, page 30

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.

1971, Andrew Boyd, Fifteen Men on a Powder Keg: a History of the U.N. Security Council‎, New York: Stein and Day, page 127

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.

1984, Xing-hu Kuo, translated by Barrows Mussey, Free China Asian Economic Miracle‎, Germany: Seewald Publisher, page 7

The 452m/ l,484ft-high Petronas Towers stand in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) and the »king of skyscrapers« is the 509m/ 1,670ft Taipeh 101 in Taipeh, the capital city of Taiwan.

2012, Achim Bourmer, New York‎, Baedeker, page 231