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Taipei (AFP) Dec 16, 2010 The head of Taiwan's historical archive has resigned after an outcry when Chinese Communist leaders Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping were included in an online poll of influential figures, officials said Thursday. Lin Man-houng, the curator of the state history archive Academia Historica, tendered her resignation late Wednesday night, the Presidential Office said. "Lin said she felt very uncomfortable about the controversy and would like to take political responsibility," said Lo Chih-chiang, spokesman for the office. The museum touched off criticism this month when it launched the online poll of the 100 most influential historical figures in modern Chinese and Taiwanese history, including Mao and Deng. Vice Defence Minister Chaou Shih-chang expressed concerns in parliament that it was "improper" to include Deng in the poll, and shortly afterwards the museum removed both Mao and Deng from the survey. Before their removal, Deng had ranked number one in the military category while Mao was number three in the running for top political leader, ahead of his Kuomintang (KMT) party arch-rival Chiang Kai-shek, local media said. Both Deng and Mao spent years fighting the KMT on the mainland, in one of the bloodiest civil wars in history, eventually forcing the party to evacuate to Taiwan in 1949. The poll is part of a series of activities celebrating next year's centennial of the founding of the Republic of China, Taiwan's formal title. Beijing still considers Taiwan part of its territory awaiting reunification, even though the island has ruled itself for more than six decades.
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