25 Sep 2012 Taiwan has a somewhat ambivalent relationship with it's former leader Chiang Kai-shek. Yes, he is the revered (and deceased) formed leader and he did resist the Communists revolutionaries in China, that's why Taiwan is not part of communist China today. He had a lot of statues of himself made and they are all over the place and sometimes they are a bit ... embarrassing. Not quite in tune with the modern Taiwan. You see, let's just say, he has many critics as well.
So if you have a Chiang Kai-shek in front of your school and you don't really want it, but neither would it be quite proper to just melt it down, what do you do? Simple, you send it to the Chiang Kai-shek statue garden where it can be properly preserved and reside forever in splendiferous glory with all the other Shek statues nobody wanted. Large and small, rows and circles upon rows of them.
