Chiang Wei-shui Memorial Park

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Jiang Wei-shui Memorial Park, originally called Jinxie Park, was renamed in 2006 to honor Jiang Wei-shui, co-founder of the Taiwanese Cultural Association. The memorial statue was unveiled in 2011 and is based on a photograph from 1930. Jiang wears a Western-style jacket over a Chinese padded coat and carries a doctor’s house-call bag; his confident, determined expression evokes the period just after his release from detention. These details connect the monument to his experience in Taiwan’s cultural and political movements. The park was chosen because of Jiang’s work in southern Datong District: he established the Taiwan People’s Party on Tianshui Road, founded the Taiwanese Cultural Association at the present site of Jingxiu Girls’ High School, and opened Da’an Hospital on Yanping North Road. Though it is a neighborhood green space, visitors can read the statue’s clothing, medical bag, and expression as a carefully chosen historical moment, placed within the streets where Jiang once worked.