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Prompted by the removal of Chiang statues at other sites, some groups agitated for removal of the Chiang statue in July 2007 to coincide with other changes at the memorial hall. [ 28 ] The renaming of the memorial hall proceeded, but the statue was not removed or covered up, as had been speculated, when the newly named National Taiwan Democracy ...
At the same time, Chiang Kai-shek statues from around Taiwan were relocated to the hillside park near the mausoleum. [4] Prior to the late 1990s, visitors would line up hours for the chance to pay their respects to Chiang Kai-shek (either by bowing three times or saluting before the sarcophagus). Schoolchildren were often bussed in to do the same.
Side view shortly after the renaming ceremony in May 2007. The images evoke the Wild Lily student movement of 1990.. The renaming of the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan to National Taiwan Democracy Memorial Hall (Chinese: 國立台灣民主紀念館; pinyin: Guólì Táiwān Mínzhǔ Jìniànguǎn) [1] was announced by President Chen Shui-bian on 15 May 2007.
In this position, Yeh commented on the possible removal of the Chiang Kai-shek statue at Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, [25] [26] discussed the commission's research into the Dang Guo system, [27] and remarked on the commission's finding that Chiang Ching-kuo was an authoritarian figure, and the Ching-kuo Chi-hai Cultural Park was an ...
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21 March – The removal of Chiang Kai-shek's statues from 14 elementary and junior high schools in Tainan. [72] 28 March – The wrong use of People's Liberation Army picture for Republic of China Armed Forces recruitment promotion posters during family visit day at 206 Army Infantry Brigade's Third Battalion in Guanxi Township, Hsinchu County ...
When the bronze equestrian statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee arrived by rail in Richmond from Paris in 1890, it took 10,000 men, women and children to haul its pieces more than a mile to the site where ...
The statue’s removal is part of a wider action to remove Confederate symbols from US military facilities set forth in a Department of Defense directive issued last October. Arlington National ...