Taipei Municipal Chien Kuo High School
municipal senior high school in Zhongzheng District, Taipei City
Taipei Municipal Chien Kuo High School (CKHS; Chinese: 臺北市立建國高級中學; pinyin: Táiběi Shìlì Jiànguó Gāojí Zhōngxué) is a public high school for boys in Zhongzheng District, Taipei, Taiwan. The school was established in 1898 during Japanese rule as the first public high school in Taiwanese history.
The school requires the highest scores on the national senior high school entrance exams for admittance. Graduates of Chien Kuo include Nobel Prize laureate Samuel C. C. Ting, Turing Award winner Andrew Yao, filmmaker Edward Yang, two heads of state, at least five members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and numerous scholars and public servants. Its female counterpart is the Taipei First Girls' High School.
History
What is now Chien Kuo High School was founded as the Fourth Affiliated School, Secondary School (第四附屬學校尋常中等科) of the Taiwan Governor's Office Japanese Language School (today the National Taipei University of Education), and was the first public secondary school in Taiwan. Except for a short period following the Chinese Civil War, the school has been an all-boys high school. The red brick building was built in 1909 during Japanese rule and is considered one of Taipei's historically significant buildings.
Following its foundation, the school went through a number of names before settling on First Taihoku Prefectural Secondary School (臺北州立臺北第一中學校) in 1922, Second Taihoku being what is now Chenggong High School. During Japanese rule, First Taihoku (臺北一中) was reserved primarily for Japanese students while Second Taihoku allowed entry for the Taiwanese.
“Taipei Municipal Chien Kuo High School” enters the record as municipal senior high school in Zhongzheng District, Taipei City. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Taipei, Municipal and Chien can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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