We arrived Taipei in the afternoon. I couldn't sleep in the airplane, as always. With a transfer in Beijing, that made it 24 hours without sleep. Despite my desire to just crash on a bed, I knew better. I needed to fight the jet lag, that meant not going to sleep until night time. So we went to Liberty Square to see the Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall.
This is the arch that marks the Liberty Square. The text says Liberty Square now, but it used
to say something else. Something about great China. It was changed around 2007.
The Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall in at the opposite end of Liberty Square. There is a
big sitting statue of him in the middle of the hall. A museum dedicated tohim is at the lower levels.
Roof of the memorial hall.
Chiang Kai-Shek was the leader of Republic of China during World War Two. After the world war, China was plunged into a civil war between Chiang Kai-Shek's Nationalist Party and the Communist Party. Eventually, the communist won the war on mainland China and Nationalist Party along with all the remaining army had to retreat to Taiwan. They vowed to return and retake the whole China. They never did.
This is Chiang Kai-Shek.
His car.
His guards.
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