A strange collection of rather stiff gentlemen: 200 bronze Chiang Kai-sheks are standing in Taiwan’s Cihu Memorial Sculpture Garden. Their presence probably does not exactly arouse spring fever in Taiwanese visitors. After all, the ex-president ruled by martial law and a police state. As is well known, the dictatorial legacy was succeeded by democracy. The removal of these statues began in 1999. There are a total of 43,000 of them – a monumental task.