Editing Taipei (section)

==Names==
{{See also|Chinese language romanization in Taiwan}}

The spellings ''Taipei'' and ''Tʻai-pei'' derive from the [[Wade–Giles]] romanization ''Tʻai²-pei³''<ref>{{cite book |last=Skinner |first=G. William |title=Modern Chinese society:an analytical bibliography |publisher=Stanford University Press |year=1973 |page=[https://archive.org/details/modernchinesesoc3skin/page/55 55] |isbn=0-8047-0753-7 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/modernchinesesoc3skin/page/55}}</ref> which means ''the North of Taiwan'' in Chinese. The name could be also romanized as ''Táiběi'' according to [[Hanyu Pinyin]] and [[Tongyong Pinyin]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pinyin.info/taiwan/place_names.html |title=Taiwan place names |access-date=15 September 2020 |website=Pīnyīn.info |language=zh-tw,en |quote=<br />鄉鎮市區別 Hanyu Pinyin (recommended) Hanyu Pinyin (with tones) Tongyong Pinyin old forms<br />...<br />台北市 Taibei Táiběi Taibei Taipei |archive-date=16 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200916131032/http://www.pinyin.info/taiwan/place_names.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://international.thenewslens.com/article/84177 |title=OPINION: Hanyu Pinyin Should Not Be Political, Kaohsiung |access-date=15 September 2020 |date=27 November 2017 |author=Eryk Smith |quote=The capital will not see its name re-christened "Taibei" anytime soon and that's fine |archive-date=16 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200916185047/https://international.thenewslens.com/article/84177 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZsyRAgAAQBAJ |title=Linguistic Landscape: Expanding the Scenery |publisher=[[Routledge]] |date=2009 |isbn=978-0-203-93096-0 |editor=Elana Shohamy, Durk Gorter |quote=However, I do use the commonly rendered "Taipei," instead of "Taibei" (Táiběi). |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=ZsyRAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT357&lpg=PT357] |access-date=16 September 2020 |archive-date=10 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230410213904/https://books.google.com/books?id=ZsyRAgAAQBAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>

The city has also been known as ''Tai-pak''<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/sketchesfromtaiw00camprich/page/82 |title=Sketches from Formosa |author=William Campbell |date=1915 |page=82 |via=[[Internet Archive]] |quote=No sooner had the Governor-General at Tai-pak received telegraphic information of the magnitude of the calamity, than instruction were issued for a large company of surgeons, nurses, and assistants to proceed at once to Ka-gi. |author-link=William Campbell (missionary)}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Tai-pak |website=[[The Free Dictionary]] |title=Tai-pak |quote=Taipei (redirected from Tai-pak) |access-date=23 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150913150945/http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Tai-pak |archive-date=13 September 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> (derived from [[Taiwanese Hokkien]]) among many possible nonstandardized variants.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://archive.org/details/nationalgeograp371920nati/page/256|magazine=[[National Geographic Magazine]] |title=FORMOSA THE BEAUTIFUL |author=Alice Ballantine Kirjassoff|date=March 1920|pages=257, 262|volume=37|issue=3|quote=I boarded a train for Taihoku, the capital city, which on most maps still bears its old Chinese name of Taipeh.{...}Taihoku (Taipeh)}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Taipeh |website=[[The Free Dictionary]] |title=Taipeh |quote=Noun 1. Taipeh - the capital of Nationalist ChinaTaipeh - the capital of Nationalist China; located in northern Taiwan |access-date=23 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191027023953/https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Taipeh |archive-date=27 October 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>

During the [[Taiwan under Japanese rule|Japanese rule]] from 1895 to 1945, Taipei was known as ''Taihoku'', merely Japanese rendition of the (original)  [[Chinese characters|Chinese language name]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://maps.princeton.edu/catalog/princeton-kw52j969v |title=Taihoku-Matsuyama, Formosa (Taiwan), Taihoku-Shu. A.M.S. L991 - Digital Maps and Geospatial Data &#124; Princeton University |access-date=13 March 2023 |archive-date=13 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230313133620/https://maps.princeton.edu/catalog/princeton-kw52j969v |url-status=live }}</ref>