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Former Presidential Office secretary-general Chang Tsu-i (張祖詒), at the age of 104, has published a book titled The President and I: A historical record of unusual times in politics (總統與我：政壇奇緣實錄).
In the book, Chang writes about a visit to the Dasi Archives in 1984 at the request of then-president Chiang Ching-kuo (蔣經國), to study dossiers and records relating to the 228 Incident.
The purpose was to allow Chang to investigate the role of the former Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) government at the time based in Nanjing to assess the extent to which it made mistakes and was responsible for the