Chiang Kai-shek gets in drag to join Ruby-chan meme trend

Chiang Kai-shek gets in drag to join Ruby-chan meme trend

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Former KMT leader Chiang Kai-shek has gotten a drag makeover at the hands of the students at Taipei’s Chien Kuo High School. A 220cm-tall statue of Chiang on the school campus has been dressed in white to resemble Ruby-chan from the popular internet meme. With her signature pigtails, the J-pop idol look is only the latest in what is now an annual tradition for graduates-to-be. The designer says this “Ruby Chiang” could actually open up a third option for transitional justice in Taiwan.

A special guest is here wearing a dreamy white dress, curly pigtails and even an earset mic, ready to put on a show. This is the statue of Chiang Kai-shek at the entrance of Chien Kuo High School in Taipei, which has been dragged up into a meme superstar.

The meme comes from a cute and catchy Japanese song by AiScReam, and Chiang looks exactly like Ruby-chan herself, with hat and all, becoming Ruby Chiang. The dress-up choice won a poll at the school, and the outfit came together in less than two weeks.

Yu Shui-heng
Graduating committee head
Everyone finds it very funny. As long as the design concept is positive, the statue of Chiang Kai-shek can become a good memory for graduates like us.

Lee Chin-cheng
Designed Ruby Chiang
We had a problem, which is that Chiang Kai-shek was too big. Look at him, the statue is 220cm tall. We cut up the clothes and they still weren’t big enough. But thankfully, the Japanese club came through and they went to Dadaocheng to buy fabric, and then we patterned it into a garment.

Dressing up the statue in fancy dress has become a graduation tradition at Chien Kuo High School. In 2010, Chiang was turned into an astronaut, and has since donned on costumes of Jia Baoyu from the “Dream of the Red Chamber” and even Thanos from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. This year, the dress-up was more than just for fun.

Lee Chin-cheng
Designed Ruby Chiang
I hope that this can open up a third path ahead for transitional justice. I think there are more than just the two crude and violent options of preserving and destroying. By changing his outfit, we can change the tall and mighty impression of a former leader.

The designer says the different costumes can perhaps offer an alternative approach to transitional justice. Dressing Chiang in feminine apparel also aims to break down gender stereotypes and get viewers to reflect as the teens get ready to enter adulthood.

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洗腦迷因! 建中蔣公銅像變身"Ruby蔣" 學生瘋合照

2025-06-03

網路上熱門迷因「Ruby醬～嗨」源自於日本限定聲優團隊的新歌，這股熱潮也燒進學校裡，台北市建國中學，依照傳統，畢業季都會替校門口的蔣公銅像換裝，今年主題就是"Ruby蔣"，剛好符合諧音，而學生也自己買布料剪裁，替蔣公做了一套打歌服。

驚喜嘉賓現身，穿著白色長裙、綁起雙馬尾，還別上耳麥，彷彿下一秒就要開唱，建中校門口的蔣公銅像，再次華麗登場，而設計靈感，就是這段當紅迷因。

來自日本聲優限定團體的新歌，洗腦又可愛，兩邊比一比，從帽子、裙子，相似度極高，有建中生想到諧音，Ruby醬，不就是咱們蔣公的蔣嗎，提案獲得高票當選，花了一到兩周的時間製作。

[[建中第77屆畢籌會主席于水衡]]
“同學們看到都覺得還蠻有趣的，我認為蔣公銅像除了設計理念，只要它是正向的，都是我們畢業生很好的回憶”

[["Ruby蔣"設計製作學生黎晉誠]]
“但是我們遇到一個問題，蔣公太大隻了!你看他在那邊，他的身高其實有220公分，我們把(衣服)剪開來，那個衣服還是不夠大，好在我們的建中日研也非常地強大，他們主動去大稻埕買布料，然後我們自己裁剪”

蔣公銅像在畢業季變裝，已經成為建中傳統，2010年變身成太空人，也曾穿梭古代變成賈寶玉，就連電影角色薩諾斯也OK，今年則是當紅迷因，不過，有趣歸有趣，背後也有設計理念。

[["Ruby蔣"設計製作學生黎晉誠]]
“我打算用這個東西，來找到轉型正義的第三條路。我不覺得事情就只有存和廢，兩種簡單粗暴的方法。換上一個服裝，讓他脫離他以前非常高大威武的形象”

學生說換個角度、換個造型，或許是打開轉型正義的另一條路，同時蔣公穿裙子也能打破性別框架，讓社會議題的反思，走進青春的畢業典禮。

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