在臺灣 消失的蔣介石塑像都去了哪裏

You used to see Chiang Kai-shek’s image everywhere in Taiwan. But lately, the man who led the Republic of China for nearly half a century has gradually been disappearing from view.

從前，臺灣到處都能看到蔣介石的像。但最近，曾領導中華民國近半個世紀的蔣介石已經逐漸淡出人們的視野。

In recent years, statues and busts of Mr. Chiang, who died in 1975, have been removed from prominent locations in scores of parks, schools and government buildings all over the island.

最近幾年，1975年離世的蔣介石的塑像和半身像已經從全島各地的許多公園、學校和政府大樓的顯眼位置移除。

These days in Yongkang Park, near where I once lived in central Taipei, one of the statues is hidden in a corner beside a tree. I walked past him regularly for several months before noticing he was even there. A small sign asks passers-by: “Can you guess where the statue was originally located?” An old photo gives the answer: On a plinth that once dominated the center of the park.

這幾天，在我曾居住的臺北市中心附近的永康公園，一座蔣介石的雕像被藏在了一棵樹旁的角落裏。我常常會經過這座雕像，但是直到幾個月之後才發現它的存在。一個小小的標牌問路人：“你能猜到這座雕像原來放在哪裏嗎？”一張舊照片給出了答案：在公園中心的一個底座上。

Mr. Chiang fled to Taiwan in 1949 after being defeated by Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist forces in a civil war. Mr. Chiang and his Chinese Nationalist party, or Kuomintang, dominated the island for decades, ruling Taiwan as the last remnant of pre-communist China. Today, he is seen by many on the island as an embodiment of authoritarianism, and the diminution of his image has been a symbol of Taiwan’s political transformation.

在內戰中被毛澤東和中國共產黨的軍隊打敗後，蔣介石在1949年逃到臺灣。蔣介石和他的國民黨統治了該島數十年，把它當作共產主義之前的中國留下的最後一塊領土。如今，蔣介石被許多臺灣民衆視爲獨裁主義的化身。蔣介石像的減少已經成爲了臺灣政治變革的一個標誌。

The island began to democratize in the 1980s and ’90s, and the campaign to remove Mr. Chiang’s once-ubiquitous image picked up steam when Chen Shui-bian of the Democratic Progressive Party was president from 2000 to 2008. Unlike the Kuomintang, Mr. Chen’s party leans toward declaring Taiwanese independence from China.

上世紀80年代和90年代，臺灣開始民主化進程。民進黨的陳水扁於2000年至2008年擔任總統期間，逐漸加快移除曾無處不在的蔣介石像。與國民黨不同，民進黨傾向於臺灣獨立。

Where do the Chiang statues go? More than 200 of them have been moved to a park near his mausoleum in Taoyuan County in northern Taiwan. But thousands still remain in place across the island, including a seated bronze at the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in central Taipei. An honor guard keeps an eye on that one, but elsewhere, others are sometimes the targets of graffiti artists — especially on Feb. 28 of each year, the anniversary of a 1947 massacre of Taiwanese civilians by Kuomintang troops.

那些蔣介石的塑像都去了哪裏？有200多座被移到了臺灣北部桃園縣蔣介石陵墓附近的一個公園裏。但是仍有數千座遺留在島上不同的地方，包括位於臺北市中心中正紀念堂裏的一個坐姿銅像。一支儀仗隊看管着這座雕像，但是在其他地方，蔣介石的雕像有時會成爲塗鴉藝術家的目標——尤其是在每年的2月28日，1947年國民黨軍隊大規模屠殺臺灣民衆的紀念日。