I have been reading random materials in the East Asian Library at school recently, and I bumped into this report on the national survey in December 11, 2007 Lian-he bao.
誰貢獻大》蔣經國50% 扁5%與蔣中正相當 (Who Contributed Most: Jiang Jingguo 50%, Chen Shuibian 5% similar to Chiang Kai-shek)
Lian-he bao is a pro-KMT media, so it is clearly strategic to compare the low popularity of Chiang Kai-shek and Chen Shuibian, and emphasize the high popularity of Jiang Jing-guo. For me, it is more interesting to compare the reviving popularity of Chiang Kai-shek and that of Park Chung hee in Korea. The report says, “評價兩蔣在台主政功過，民眾對蔣中正的評價較為分歧。有二成九肯定蔣中正對台灣功大於過，三成覺得功過相當，百分之九認為過大於功。(29% acknowledge that Chiang Kai-shek did more good than harm to Taiwan, 30% recognize he did good and harm to an equal extent, and 9% consider he did more harm than good.)”
Here’s the summary:
