OK, I knew that the name of the Chiang Kai-Shek Airport was initially supposed to be the Taoyuan International Airport, and was only given that name because the dictator died. So in a way, renaming it back to the "Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport" is only restoring it to what it should have been called in the first place.
But I didn’t know that the building of Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall also usurped a previous plan:
In July 1973, ‘Taipei reading’ (volume 67) had an article about the project, ‘Ying-Pien New Community.’ The government originally planned to raise 1500 billion NTD to build a ‘modern business center’ across 62 acre area in Hsin-Yi Road. There would be five 18- to 50-level business buildings, three 24- to 30-level international hotels for tourists and apartments, four department stores, conference hall, world trade center, culture centers, and entertainment facilities. There would be transportation systems between buildings, and moving tracks for pedestrians. In the cover and content of this journal, we can see the scenographs, and all of them are towering glass-covering buildings. This project is full of the imagination of ‘modern and technology advance,’ and it was set to start the development in June, 1974. However, Chiang Kai-Shek died in 1975, and the plan was suddenly changed to use the land for Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall.
(from Chih-Hung Wang, via Global Voices Online)
Mischievous thought: If the name of Taiwan’s main international airport can be restored, then why can’t the original vision for the memorial’s parcel of land be as well? The Chinese Nationalist Party never ceases to claim that Chiang was the sole cause of Taiwan’s economic miracle, so what better monument could there be to such a man than a few 50-story skyscrapers?