Taibei

See also:Táiběi

English

Etymology

From theHanyu Pinyinromanization ofMandarinĐài Bắc／Đài Bắc(Táiběi).

Proper noun

Taibei

1. Alternative form ofTaipei(capital city)[from late 20th c.]
   • 1977,Jean Chesneaux, Françoise Le Barbier, Marie-Claire Bergère, translated byPaul AusterandLydia Davis,China from the 1911 Revolution to Liberation‎^[3],Pantheon Books,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC,page341:

     A reliable estimate was made that about 700 students had been seized inTaibeiby 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 ofTaibei) on the night of March 9.

   • 1980,John R. Robertson,China from Manchu to Mao (1699-1976)‎^[4],New York:Atheneum,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC,page138:

     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.

   • 1980,Orville Schell,"Watch Out for the Foreign Guests!" China Encounters the West‎^[5],New York:Pantheon Books,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC,page 8:

     I remember lying awake in the wet winter rawness and the suffocating summer heat ofTaibei,capital of Chiang Kai-shek's China, the one we were still welcome in, dreaming of the real China.

   • 2000,Endymion Wilkinson,Chinese History: A New Manual‎^[6],Rev. & enl. edition,Harvard University Press,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC,page901:

     Since then the authorities both in Beijing and inTaibeihave 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.

   • For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:Taibei.
2. Alternative form ofTaipei(formercounty)[from late 20th c.]
   • 1980June, Yongping Chen, “Delving into Taiwan's Past”, inChina Reconstructs‎^[7],volume XXIX, number 6,Beijing:China Welfare Institute,→ISSN,→OCLC,page39,column 2:

     The Dapenkeng culture was so named after one of its sites was discovered in 1964 at Dapenkeng near the township of Bali,Taibeicounty by teachers and students of Taiwan University.

   • 1987,Hill Gates, “Folk Religions, Old and New”, inChinese Working-Class Lives: Getting By in Taiwan‎^[8],Cornell University Press,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC,page187:

     I worked as a coal miner in Shiwufen, inTaibeiCounty. 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”, inDavid K. Jordan,Andrew D. Morris, Marc L. Moskowitz, editors,The Minor Arts of Daily Life: Popular Culture in Taiwan‎^[9],Honolulu:University of Hawaiʻi Press,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC,page73:

     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 fromTaibeiCounty to Pingdong.

   • For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:Taibei.

Derived terms

• New Taibei

Translations

Taipei—seeTaipei

Further reading

• Taipei, Taibeiat theGoogle Books Ngram Viewer.
• “Taibei”,inOneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Taibei”,inMerriam-Webster Online Dictionary,Springfield, Mass.:Merriam-Webster,1996–present.
• “Taibei”inTheFreeDictionary,Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.

Anagrams

• tibiae

Estonian

Proper noun

Taibei

1. Alternative form ofTaipei