Taipei Times
Date: Aug 12, 2018
By: Sean Lin / Staff reporter
National Chengchi University late on Friday night said it had removed a bronze
A bronze statue of Chiang Kai-shek is pictured at Hua Hsing Children’s Home in Taipei’s Shilin District yesterday. Photo courtesy of National Chengchi University
statue of Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石), its first president, from its campus in accordance with a resolution passed in January at an internal meeting of faculty and student representatives.
The statue, which formerly stood at the university’s library, was relocated to Hua Hsing Children’s Home — founded by Chiang’s wife Soong Mayling (宋美齡) — in Taipei’s Shilin District (士林), the school said.
The internal meeting was held to decide which of two statues of Chiang would be removed, with the one in the library chosen by a vote of 54 to 37.
The other Chiang statue, which portrays him on horseback, remains on a hill on campus
In an apparent attempt to downplay the issue, the university issued a news release about the statue’s relocation just before midnight on Friday. [FULL STORY]
