October 31, 2026, is the 140th birthday of President Chiang Kai-shek (蔣中正) according to the traditional Chinese system of counting age, in which a person is one at birth and gains a year at the Lunar New Year. By the Western reckoning of completed years, he was born on October 31, 1887, 139 years ago. I use the traditional reckoning here as a conscious expression of the Republic of China’s historical and cultural inheritance.