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...stone's throw from Burma is a small, mountainous corner of Thailand that might as well be in China. But you won't find portraits of Mao hanging on the walls or Little Red Books being thumbed in the village tea shops. Instead you might find battered copies of Chiang Kai-shek's memoirs, and your server will probably speak Yunnanese...
Santikhiri, nestled in the upper slopes of Doi Mae Salong in the northernmost province of Chiang Rai, is the kind of place that time forgot. This quaint hamlet, wreathed in a pink mist of cherry blossoms, is home to the so-called "lost army" of the Kuomintang's 93rd Division, which in 1961 stumbled, exhausted, into this mountain paradise. Although by now their numbers have dwindled, you can still see the old warriors padding about in quilted jackets, sipping tea in the shadows of pagodas and reliving old campaigns...
They toured the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, snapped pictures at the Lungshan Temple and wandered through the National Palace Museum, with its imperial art treasures from Beijing's Forbidden City. The 13 tourists were, in fact, not much different from millions of others who visit Taiwan. But their trip last month was historic. They were the first citizens of mainland China allowed to visit Taiwan as tourists in more than 50 years...
...That does not give the President an absolute majority, but it does allow him to strike a deal to lure a few maverick KMT or independent politicians rather than engage in tedious and fragile coalition building, leaving the KMT totally out of the government. For the first time since Chiang Kai-shek's army fled to Taiwan, it seems likely politicians advocating unification with the mainland have been sidelined...
...CHANG HSUEH-LIANG only once in Taipei, at the home of Chiang Kai-Shek's chief of staff. At that hour-long meeting, Chang remained silent?and he kept silent until the day he died. The "Young Marshal" remains a tragic and elusive figure in modern Chinese history. Even after he was released from house arrest in Taiwan, Chang declined to write his memoirs. He also disappointed his former comrades when he refused to visit northeast China, where they had established a museum in his honor and maintained his former home. Instead, he spent his time studying the Bible. Chang...