Based on a transnational study of decommissioned, postcolonial prisons in Taiwan (Taipei
and Chiayi), South Korea (Seoul), and China (Lushun), this book offers a critical reading of …

Amid increasing interest in city branding in East Asia, the municipalities of Gunsan (South
Korea) and Chiayi (Taiwan) chose colonial heritage-making as their city branding strategies …

Abstract Three London jurisdictions‒Westminster, the Royal Parks and the City‒employ
different policies, decision-making processes and criteria to shape the siting, design and …

Opposite the Japanese embassy in downtown Seoul stands a bronze statue of a young girl.
Since its erection in 2011, it has become a site of fierce symbolic battles among various …

Abstract President Park Chung-hee played a predominant role in shaping South Korean
history, yet he remains a controversial figure. This paper explores the way this controversy …

Abstract (DMZ) endures as the oldest continuous frontline of the Cold War. It is also a sealed
heritage site, replete with accumulated emotions, trauma, and tension. Given the strict …

The book documents the collective memories of German colonialism in Tanzania Mainland
which formed part of the former Germany East Africa. It argues that German colonialism …

Seoul's Sŏdaemun Prison is famous in South Korea today as a site of heroic resistance
where Korean anticolonial activists were martyred at the hands of Japanese colonial …

This paper examines the evolving subjects, forms, symbolism, and spatial constellation of
the diverse memorials erected in Seoul since 1953. It explores how these memorials have …

ABSTRACT Cyclist Um Bok-dong (1892–1951 [1952?]), nicknamed 'Bicycle king of the East',
was the biggest Korean sports hero from the 1910s and into the 1920s, a time when Korea …