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...When Chiang Kai-shek lost the civil war to Mao Zedong in 1949 and fled to Taiwan, he took the cream of the imperial collection with him, 10,000 paintings and calligraphies, more than half a million objects, rare books and documents, in some 4,000 crates--an act of cultural looting (in Taiwan, read: salvage) that had few equals before and has had none since, though it is pointless to criticize such a fait accompli nearly 50 years later. Who knows what might have happened to the art at the hands of the Red Guards, for instance? Since then...
...WHEN MAO ZEDONG'S COMMUnist forces pushed Chiang Kai-shek's regime off mainland China and drove it to Taiwan, few expected the resource-poor province to thrive. Nevertheless, in its new home, the Republic of China has become one of East Asia's "economic miracles," with a per capita GNP today of $12,500. Even that transformation, though, is less startling than Taiwan's political revolution, culminating last Saturday in the presidential election. Voters ignored missile rattling from the mainland and gave current President Lee Teng-hui a strong mandate. He won 54% of the vote, more than twice...
Less than two decades ago, Taiwan's political system closely paralleled that of the mainland, a strict, authoritarian regime ruled by a single party whose structure was copied from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the 1920s. Following his flight from the mainland, Chiang's martial-law regime banned opposition parties. Dissidents were jailed or went into exile, and newspapers and the broadcast media were tightly controlled. But Chiang's son and successor, Chiang Ching-kuo, opened the political system, lifting martial law in 1987. Lee succeeded him in 1988 and continued the reforms, holding the first parliamentary...
...widow of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, Madame Chiang--as she came to be known--was the most charming and persuasive of China's notoriously influential Soong family. As her husband's emissary, she pleaded for the Allies to support China in its war against Japan, taking Washington by storm in 1943 when she addressed a joint session of Congress. Defeated by the communists in 1949, the Chiangs fled to Taiwan, where he ruled until his death in 1975. Estranged from his successor, her stepson, she divided her time between Taiwan and the U.S. Now settled in New York City...
TAIPEI: In the wake of President Lee Teng-hui's convincing win in Saturday's elections, Taiwan announced a plan today to ease its 47 year-old ban on direct trade with China. Taiwan Economic Minister Chiang Pin-kung will submit the proposal to the Taiwanese legislature sometime in June. China and Taiwan had been conducting low-level talks on economic cooperation last summer when China suspended them after Lee visited the United States -- a move Beijing viewed as a play towards seeking international recognition of Taiwan as a nation. Lee said he wants to seek stability for the island...