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.
When World War II ended Chiang Kai-shek seemed at the height of his power-the leader of Nationalist China, one of the victorious Allied Powers in 1945 and with the financial backing of the US. Yet ...