Liberty Square
Vast civic plaza framed by an archway and twin performance halls, site of a landmark student democracy movement.
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This guide to Liberty Square in Taipei centers on a fight over four carved characters on the plaza's archway, tied to Chiang Kai-shek's name, and the government's 2007 decision to take them down. You'll hear about the day-long removal, the injured cameraman and fined contractors, and how a new government a year later tried to reverse almost every change it had triggered. The guide also traces the square's role in Taiwan's 1990 Wild Lily student democracy movement.
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