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, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, 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, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 7