If you can commemorating Mao Zedong, so does you can also do it with Chiang Kai Shek as well.
China do commemorate Sun Yat Sen. And officially the contribution of ROC/KMT to the 2nd sino-japanese/anti-japanese war were increasing recognized.
Currently commemorating Chiang is asking a bit too much, after all the PRoC/RoC fought a civil war. That is as politically difficult as asking RoC/Taiwan to commemorate Mao.
But it is not totally impossible, maybe if RoC ask for it as a condition for reunification, it could happened. But do you think Taiwanese would even ask for it?
Sun Yat Sen, Chiang Kai Shek and Mao Zedong are equally idiots and foreign worshipers.
Look, all these three leaders of China are human, they are not perfect. But they are part of China history, you cannot just ignore their history.
Sometimes at the turn of the 20th Century, China were so utterly devastated by foreign powers, that we developed a loss of confidence in ourselves. The consequence of which, we look for foreign solution to our problem. Chinese culture is not perfect, the injection of foreign idea is good for us. China has been doing that sort of things for millennium, but we have always remained distinctly Chinese.
Maybe you feel they go a bit too far, but do consider the academic atmosphere in the first half of the 20th century, when intellectuals bashing Chinese culture is the norm, no matter whether from the right or left, PRC or ROC. But you cannot say that Chinese do not need this kick in the butt, although sometimes they may have throw the baby out with the bath water, they did succeeded in dragging the Chinese people into the modern era.
When Mao stood in Tienanmen in october 1st 1949, he proclaimed that China has finally stood up. The CPC did delivered on that promise, he gave Chinese back the confidence/dignity that they had lost.
In a few post above, "Lux de veritas" quoted "黄金千两酬漂母,藤鞭三百报平王" suggesting doing something to Mao's corpse. But there are two part to that idioms, he seem to see only the last part, the ying and not the yang. Isn't 感恩(gladfullness) a very essential part of Chinese culture?
If you think that the Cultural Revolution had killed off Chinese culture in mainland China, then you must have severely underestimated our culture. A culture that has withstood the test of time for millennium is a lot more resilience than you could imagine.
This is an article just a month back,
Talking about Culture at Qufu City: Xi Jinping Talking about Confucius When Inspecting Shandong Province
On November 26th, 2013, Secretary-general Xi Jinping came to Confucius Research Institute for inspection, and carried on a discussion with the research fellow Yang Chaoming, president of Confucius Research Institute, and other representative experts and scholars. The journalist of First Financial Daily interviewed Mr. Yang Chaoming about the detail of the general secretary’s inspection and its social reflection and the report was forwarded here.
“I will read these two books carefully”, the words of Xi Jinping, CPC general secretary made The General Interpretation of Family Saying of Confucius and The Interpretation of the Analects chiefly written by the research fellow Yang Chaoming “popular overnight”.