Taipei, Taiwan, 1:30PM Sunday
So, just trying to get settled in and adjusted. The Jetlag is murder, found myself fighting to stay awake last night at 8pm. We had a quiet day yesterday, went to a dance performance in the afternoon at the National theatre, right next to the Chiang-Kai-Shek memorial pictured above. Chiang-Kai-Shek is a big part of history over here.. more info here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiang_Kai-shek
Essentially he was the dictator of China that was overthrown by the communists in 1949 and retreated with his troops to Taiwan. His plan was to re-build his army and invade China from Taiwan to re-take the country but he never was able to get it together so he became the dictator of Taiwan instead. I'm still learning about all this, but it seems lots of Taiwanese disappeared during his rule and it was pretty much an evil dictatorship.. though he did keep the communists out and maybe paved the way for Taiwan to sort of be independent (that's a whole other conversation).. suffice it to say politics and history are very complicated here.
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