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200 unwanted sculptures: Chiang Kai-shek’s complicated and troubling legacy in Taiwan
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Chiang Kai-shek statues left at a lakeside park in Taoyuan city's Daxi district after being removed from parks or buildings across Taiwan.
ST PHOTO: YIP WAI YEE
TAOYUAN, Taiwan Walking through a quiet lakeside park in Taoyuan city, one comes across 200 statues and busts of the same man – Chiang Kai-shek, Taiwan’s longest-serving head of state.
Some of the bronze and plaster figures are placed neatly in a line, while others face each other, resembling old friends having a conversation.
