Thursday, September 9

We will bury you

KEITH BRADSHER reports the Chiang family plans to finally bury Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石 and his son, Chiang Ching-kuo 蔣經國, failing to identify the latter as the person responsible for introducing democracy to Taiwan, probably because
the family's decision has awakened old ghosts of a sort: the anger and resentment of the relatives of tens of thousands of people who were tortured or killed or both under martial law, in the name of eradicating Communist sympathizers.
I can't help but feel all the fuss over corpses is a little silly. Then there's this:
A small group in southern Taiwan has even erected a little temple for the worship of Chiang Kai-shek, whom they revere as divine.
That's what happened to admired officials in ancient China.

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