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...Chiang Kai-Shek memorial occupies several city blocks of space in the center of Taipei. Only a short walk from the presidential palace from which Chiang ran the nationalist Chinese government, it is easily the most striking feature of the city which many still hold to be the legitimate capital of all China...
...face fixed in a bronze smile, Chiang sits on a throne framed with famous quotations from his fabled life and surveys his memorial, his city, his island nation. His throne is on a great stone block; the block is in a large rectangular building with a purple pagoda-styled tile roof. The building sits atop a huge white-stone pyramid full of Chiang memorabilia--his letters, his glasses, his clothing, his medals. There are no servants for the afterlife; only a military honor guard to protect the bronze...
...result of the growing rift between the PRC and the Soviet Union, the Chinese have begun to view the U.S. more favorably. "People don't see the U.S. as capitalist pigs anymore," Bing says. "Aside from what they did in supporting Chiang (Kai-shek), the former leader of Taiwan) and Vietnam, the U.S. is seen as the counterbalance of the Soviet Union." He adds that "There's no hard feeling involved" between the U.S. and China, saying many Chinese see America as "a friend who can help in the improvement of our technology...
Considering the outrages it suffered during the Cultural Revolution, the fact that the Peking company exists at all is a kind of miracle. Mao Tse-tung's wife, the arrogant and mischievous Jiang Qing (Chiang Ch'ing), barred all classical productions as antirevolutionary, and a major artist like the enchanting Zhao Yanxia had to spend five years planting wheat in the provinces. Thankfully, Jiang herself has now fallen out of favor, and Zhao and her colleagues can now delight Americans, as they and their predecessors have been thrilling the Chinese for generations...
...Confucian mold. He rejected both of his youthful affectations: Westernization and Buddhism. The rest of Liang's career was spent attempting to build a state based on a Confucian value system that would prescribe a "Chinese" core for any institutional setup. As part of the non-Communist opposition to Chiang Kai-shek's nationalist regime, Liang helped form the rural reconstruction movement that sought to create a new China on the backs of a liberated and mobilized peasantry. After the Communist victory in 1949, Liang's Confucian orientation towards rural reform became anathema, but because Mao knew Liang personally, aside...