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Welcome to Taipei International Club

Taipei, Taiwan

Forty years of international friendship in Taipei.

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1986year our club was founded
3members on the WCI Executive Committee
2WCI presidents from our club
2WCI conferences held in our city

About us

Welcome to Taipei International Club has fostered international friendship, cultural exchange and mutual understanding since 1986, and in 2026 we celebrate our 40th anniversary.

Our club began with an invitation from Washington. While she lived there, Madam Julie Chien was asked by the Board of the Welcome to Washington International Club to start its first sister club in Asia. She founded our club in Taipei in 1986 to help the spouses of foreign diplomats settle quickly into life in Taiwan and get to know its culture, history and customs, and to give Taiwanese members a place to learn across cultures. She led the club for 38 years and is now our Honorary President. In 2024 she received the WCI Marian Adair Award.

Our year includes an annual lecture, a cultural tea party, a festive Christmas Luncheon and lively interest groups: international cooking, art and culture visits to Taipei’s museums, and an Exploration Group that discovers the city’s oldest streets and temples together. We hosted the WCI 16th Biennial Conference in 2024.

We celebrated our 35th anniversary on March 30, 2021. Our past president Athenia Kuo played a key part in WCI gaining its status at the United Nations, and in 2024 we hosted the WCI International Conference for the second time, after 2002.

What we do

  • Annual Assembly and New Year Luncheon
  • Annual lecture and cultural tea party
  • Christmas Luncheon with interest-group performances
  • International cooking demonstrations
  • Art & Culture Group museum visits
  • Exploration Group walks through Taipei

Photos

  • Celebrating the 40th anniversary of WTIC

    Celebrating the 40th anniversary of WTIC

  • Our 40th Anniversary celebration

    Our 40th Anniversary celebration

  • Christmas Luncheon

    Christmas Luncheon

  • International cooking demonstration

    International cooking demonstration

Club news

  1. WTIC turns 40

    Our Annual Assembly and New Year Luncheon celebrated four decades of connection, service and cross-cultural engagement.

    WTIC turns 40

  2. At the 25th FAWA Convention

    Members took part in the Federation of Asia-Pacific Women’s Associations convention in Taiwan, “Women in an AI Era: Breaking Barriers, Inspiring Change.”

Our club in the WCI family

On the WCI Executive Committee

  • Mayumi HuDirector of Programs
  • Olivia JenWebmaster / Facebook Manager
  • Vivienne ShenImmediate Past President
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WCI presidents from our club

  • Elizabeth Lamb2009–2010
  • Vivienne Shen2023–2025

International Conferences in our city

  • 2024Taipei, Taiwan
    Hosted by our club: “Bridging International Friendship & Empowering Women Globally”
  • 2002Taipei, Taiwan
    Hosted by our club: “We Care”
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Marian Adair Award 2024

Julie Chien: Madam Julie Chien stood beside her husband, Dr. Fredrick F. Chien, former ROC Representative to the United States and Minister of Foreign Affairs, through decades of diplomatic service. In Washington, the Board of the Welcome to Washington International Club invited her to start its first sister club in Asia. In 1986 she founded the Welcome to Taipei International Club to help the spouses of foreign envoys settle into life in Taipei and learn its culture, history and customs, and to give Taiwanese members a place to learn across cultures. She led the club for 38 years and is its Honorary President. She has also chaired many women’s organizations and devoted much of her life to charity and to supporting people in need.

About the award ›

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Thank you

Our club supports the Marian Wood Adair Founder’s Fund, which helps education and gender-equality projects.

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Why women join a WCI club

Friends from everywhere

Meet women of many nationalities who know what it is like to start over in a new place.

Culture and learning

Talks, trips, cooking, languages and traditions, shared over coffee and at our events.

A voice beyond the club

Join sister clubs at International Conferences and in WCI’s work at the United Nations.

Sister clubs around the world

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