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When Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Chiang Wan-an (蔣萬安) last month suggested that Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall be renamed the “Taiwan development memorial hall,” the idea did not emerge out of a vacuum.
The hall, which commemorates Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) of the KMT, is a symbol that the party faithful would not want to see desecrated. Although Chiang Wan-an’s idea was largely ignored at the time, he was trying to put the party in the driving seat of a process that is going to happen anyway. The Transitional Justice Commission on Sept. 28 last year announced its intention to transform the
When I read National Taipei University of Education honorary professor Lee Hsiao-feng’s (李筱峰) article “Memorial hall perfect home for legislature,” (May 2, page 8), in which he suggested that Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall might be the best place to accommodate the Legislative Yuan, I was in complete agreement.
The use of a high-school building as the site for the national legislature says a lot about the attitude of the government toward public will during Taiwan’s authoritarian period, but that choice was made 60 years ago.
The absurdity is that, not too far from the current site of the legislature, opposite the Presidential