Table of Contents

Introduction: Articulating the Heritage of Punishment 1. Modernizing Punishment in East Asia 2. Grades of Remembering Colonial Prisons 3. Flows In and Out of Prisons Throughout the Empire 4. Lushun Russo-Japan Prison: Accidental Heritage at the Crossroads of Colonialities 5. Landscaping the State of Independence out of the Colonial Prison: the Seodaemun Prison in Seoul 6. Memories Displaced at the Colonial Margin: The Cases in Taiwan 7. Re-articulation of Places of Pain and Shame into a World Heritage? 8. Disarticulation and Eradication of Dissonant Place in Replicating a Roppongi Hills in Taipei Replicating Roppongi Hills in Taipei? Conclusion: Rebirth of Prisons as Heritage in Postcolonial East Asia

About the Author

Shu-Mei Huang is an Assistant Professor at the Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, National Taiwan University, Taiwan.

Hyun Kyung Lee is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow on the Academy of Korean Studies–funded research project “Beyond the Cold War, towards a community of Asia” at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities, University of Cambridge, UK, and the International Center for Korean Studies, Kyujanggak Institute, Seoul National University, Seoul.

Reviews

'Shu-Mei Huang and Hyun Kyung Lee provide a new, East Asian, and transnational take on prisons as places of pain and shame—a major contribution to the heritage literature. They analyze the building of prisons by colonial Japan in China, Korea and Taiwan and their rebirth as heritage sites designed to restore national honour and strengthen national cohesion. The authors show, nevertheless, that the sites remain caught up in shifting regional geopolitics, their multiple interpretations generating international tensions that can only be resolved at the diplomatic level.' - William Logan, Professor Emeritus, Deakin University, Australia'Sites of Japan’s colonial incarceration relate to both the authority of geography and the power of heritage history. Huang and Lee both demonstrate in their ground-breaking volume how these often punitive forms of colonial modernity were then later consumed, reshaped or destroyed in the ensuing years of national and international debates about the legacies of empire.' - Barak Kushner, Professor of East Asian History, University of Cambridge, UK‘Huang and Lee’s well-researched and thoughtful work reminds us of the dangerous temptation to confine critique to a reviled external ‘Other’ when the impulse to repression still thrives much closer to home.’ - Edward Vickers, International Journal of Taiwan Studies‘Tackling the difficult legacies of colonialism and decolonisation, the authors offer a refreshing and compelling perspective that transcends the often myopic and simplistic debates surrounding Western colonialism. As such, this book has a broad appeal not only to scholars interested in East Asian history, but also to scholars in postcolonial studies, heritage studies, memory studies, and penology.’ - Rin Ushiyama, Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change'Huang and Lee's excellent and highly innovative volume exemplifies how the interdisciplinary intellectual territory of critical heritage studies intersects with empirical history and politics.' - Anoma Pieris, International Journal of Heritage Studies