DPP attacks kin of Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo who sent papers to US
The family of former Taiwanese presidents Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo have come under fire from the ruling Democratic Progressive Party for handing the diaries of the late leaders to an American institute.
The diaries, spanning 60 years from 1919 and providing a valuable window on history - including how Chiang Kai-shek lost the civil war and fled to Taiwan in 1949 - are now kept at the Hoover Institute of Stanford University.
Chiang's family decided to transfer the documents to the institute for 50 years. A small section of the diaries has been on public display since Wednesday.
But Taiwan's National History Archive Museum has insisted that the diaries be handed to it.
'According to regulations, all cultural and official effects of the president and vice-president should be handed over to the museum for storage, maintenance and management after they retire,' museum director Chang Yen-hsien said.
He said the museum had told the Chiang family a long time ago that they should hand over the documents, but had not received any response.
