在台湾 消失的蒋介石塑像都去了哪里

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.

从前，台湾到处都能看到蒋介石的像。但最近，曾领导中华民国近半个世纪的蒋介石已经逐渐淡出人们的视野。

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.

最近几年，1975年离世的蒋介石的塑像和半身像已经从全岛各地的许多公园、学校和政府大楼的显眼位置移除。

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.

这几天，在我曾居住的台北市中心附近的永康公园，一座蒋介石的雕像被藏在了一棵树旁的角落里。我常常会经过这座雕像，但是直到几个月之后才发现它的存在。一个小小的标牌问路人：“你能猜到这座雕像原来放在哪里吗？”一张旧照片给出了答案：在公园中心的一个底座上。

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.

在内战中被毛泽东和中国共产党的军队打败后，蒋介石在1949年逃到台湾。蒋介石和他的国民党统治了该岛数十年，把它当作共产主义之前的中国留下的最后一块领土。如今，蒋介石被许多台湾民众视为独裁主义的化身。蒋介石像的减少已经成为了台湾政治变革的一个标志。

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.

上世纪80年代和90年代，台湾开始民主化进程。民进党的陈水扁于2000年至2008年担任总统期间，逐渐加快移除曾无处不在的蒋介石像。与国民党不同，民进党倾向于台湾独立。

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.

那些蒋介石的塑像都去了哪里？有200多座被移到了台湾北部桃园县蒋介石陵墓附近的一个公园里。但是仍有数千座遗留在岛上不同的地方，包括位于台北市中心中正纪念堂里的一个坐姿铜像。一支仪仗队看管着这座雕像，但是在其他地方，蒋介石的雕像有时会成为涂鸦艺术家的目标——尤其是在每年的2月28日，1947年国民党军队大规模屠杀台湾民众的纪念日。