Heritage, Memory, and Punishment

Based on a transnational study of decommissioned, postcolonial prisons in Taiwan, South Korea and China, this book offers a critical reading of prisons as a particular colonial product, the current restoration of which as national heritage is closely related to the evolving conceptualization of punishment.

Autorentext

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 Studiesfunded 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.

Inhalt

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