Chiang steps out of the darkness of Chinese history – Mary-Anne Toy

From The Age (link):

ON THE mainland, Chinese schoolchildren are taught that General Chiang Kai-shek, the Nationalist leader who tried but failed to exterminate the communists and fled to Taiwan in 1949 after losing the civil war to Mao Zedong, is a traitor.

So the installation of a life-size wax figure of the Generalissimo in a southern Chinese museum in recognition of his contribution to the Chinese republic, which preceded the communist victory in 1949, may be a small victory for historians fighting to free China’s history from political correctness.