NESTLED in a wood outside the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing is a mansion used as an official residence in the 1930s and 1940s by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, the Chinese leader who fled to Taiwan to escape Mao Zedong's Communist army. After the civil war, Chiang's name became synonymous with evil in China. No longer. The building (pictured) in what was then China's capital has become a tourist hotspot. There is no hint that this was the home of Mao's mortal enemy.
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