Chiang Wei-kuo

Chiang Wei-kuo (蔣緯國, 蒋纬国; Hanyu Pinyin: Jiang Weiguo), or Wego Chiang (October 6, 1916–September 22, 1997) was a son of President Chiang Kai-shek, adoptive brother of President Chiang Ching-kuo, and an important figure in the Kuomintang (KMT). His nickname was Jianhao (建鎬) and sobriquet Niantang (念堂).

Final Years

In the early 1990s, Chiang Wei-kuo established an 11-person unofficial Spirit Relocation Committee (奉安移靈小組) to petition the Communist government to allow his father and brother to be exhumed and re-interred on the Mainland China. His request was largely ignored by both the Nationalist and Communist government, and he was persuaded to abandon the petition by his step-mother and his father's widow, Soong May-ling in 1996 November.

Related Topics:
Mainland China - Soong May-ling

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In 1994, a hospital was supposed to be named after him (蔣?國醫療中心) in Sanjhih, Taipei County, after an unnamed politician donated to Runtai Financial Group (潤泰企業集團), whose founder was from Sanjhih. People then questioned whether Chiang was to be actually commemorated or was simply used in this the unnamed politician's hypocritical scheme of corruption.

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In 1996, the Chiang estate was demolished by the order of the Taipei municipal government under Chen Shui-bian. The estate was constructed in 1971. After Chiang moved elsewhere in 1981, he gave it to his son. Since the estate was located in a military area and neither the father nor the son was an active soldier, the government decided that neither could own its land.

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Chiang Wei kuo died at the age of 82 from kidney failure. He had been experienced falling blood pressure complicated by diabetes after a 10-month illness in Veterans General Hospital, Taipei at 82. He wished to be buried in Suzhou on the Mainland, but was buried at the Wuchih Mountain Military Cemetery.

Related Topics:
Taipei - Suzhou - Wuchih Mountain Military Cemetery

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