It says a lot about the Taiwanese culinary appetite that the National Palace Museum s most famous artefact is a fragment of banded jasper carved into pork belly
Taipei, Feb. 22 (CNA) A coalition of over 50 civil society groups will march in Taipei next Monday to remember the victims of the Feb. 28 Incident while calling on Taiwan's government to do more to promote transitional justice.
Big-name Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) politicians and high-ranking military officers frequently visit former president Chiang Kai-shek’s (蔣介石) mausoleum in Cihu (慈湖) in Taoyuan’s Dasi District (大溪) to lay flowers and commemorate the self-styled “generalissimo” and his son former president Chiang Ching-kuo (蔣經國).
However, are these “big beasts” of the pan-blue camp and top military brass really as loyal to the memory of the two Chiangs as their public pilgrimages make them out to be?
In April 2015, former premier Hau Pei-tsun (郝柏村) led a delegation of 21 retired generals and more than 100 other retired high-ranking officers to the Cihu Mausoleum