When Chiang Kai-shek died in 1975, many in Taiwan thought Mr Chang should be forgiven.
They venerate the late Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and privately denigrate Lee as a "traitor" to China.
High atop a nearby hill rises the famous Tzuen Pagoda, built by Chiang Kai-Shek to honor his mother.
"But after the Airbus A300-600 accident at Chiang Kai-shek airport, the attitude changed in a positive way, " he says.
Visit the "Green Meadow Resort, " an abandoned compound ringed by barbed wire, which once held hundreds of dissidents who opposed the late dictator Chiang Kai-shek.
In 1943, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek met in Cairo to discuss the war against Japan.
Parts of the long-derelict route were first opened by the Allies during the second world war to supply Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese army in its war with the Japanese.
The debate was conducted in America with some ferocity, with the Democrats, then in government, especially being blamed for not giving enough help to Chiang Kai-shek and his Nationalists.
Lau was one of the last holdouts at Rennie's Mill, a village in Hong Kong's Kowloon peninsula that was home to hundreds of ex-soldiers of Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist army and their families.
When Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists were driven out of China, they adopted interventionist economic policies in Taiwan and nationalized dozens of major businesses-such as the Bank of Taiwan, still one of the island's biggest banks.
When Chiang Kai-shek retreated to what was then Formosa in 1949, his party was left with its sole holding on the island: a producer of rubber and explosives, whose main claim to fame was having once owned Tsingtao Beer.
In their flight, the nationalists under Chiang-Kai Shek took historical treasures, including most of the contents of the Forbidden City in Beijing - the National Palace Museum in Taipei is an astounding collection of hundreds of thousands of treasures.
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