taibei

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1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of Taipei (capital city)

   “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.”

   “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.”

   “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.”

2. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of Taipei (former county)

   “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.”

   “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.”