The Problematic Past and Difficult Heritage: The Japanese Colonial Occupation of Korea and Its Architectural Legacies

Lee, Hyun Kyung

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-66338-8_1

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“…Different relationships of the countries of the case studies in this research with their colonial pasts predict how colonial medical measures in the history of leprosy will be depicted in the museums under study. For example, Korea uses antipathy toward its former colonizer, Japan, in the construction of national narratives to strengthen its national identity (Lee, 2019). 2 It further implements a "corrective remembering" approach, an attempt to correct the telling of the past for the interest of the present, in the case of Korea through erasing or silencing specific memories of the colonial past (Huang and Lee, 2019).…”

Section: Difficult Heritage In the Makingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Lens to difficult history: Museums of Hansen’s disease in Malaysia, South Korea, and Taiwan

Wang,

Kim

2024

Memory Studies

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A recent revisit of the history of leprosy in East and Southeast Asia led to the establishment of museums of Hansen’s disease. Given that the history of leprosy has been a touchy subject due to its social stigma and complicated colonial past, these museums become spaces for the curious to comprehend memories of the forgotten past. In this article, we investigate contradictory purposes of reappraising the heritage value of the history of leprosy for present needs. Museum exhibitions in three colonial leprosaria in Malaysia, South Korea, and Taiwan are examined, specifically focusing on three areas of interpretation: the medical past in a post-colonial present, the difficult life of former patients, and the unsettled present. In contrast with the traditional museum as a place for the repository of glorious national identity, museums of Hansen’s disease offer diverse pathways to new museum culture created by activists, museum visitors, and officials.

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Section: Difficult Heritage In the Makingmentioning

confidence: 99%