ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates how the flows that contributed to the particular penal heritage instantiated in different countries are essentially legacies of transnational interaction, rather than national projects alone. It presents the importance of exploring the recollection of punishment at the turn of the twentieth century, and the need to conduct such explorations in interdisciplinary and comparative ways, within a cross-border context. The notion of “offshore heritage” has been developed to take issue with the production and consumption of penal heritage. The chapter shows that the new term “corrective remembering” can contribute a useful tool for analyzing penal heritage in East Asia and the wider world. With the globalization of heritage, inevitable challenges emerge in managing the tension between nationalized presentations of difficult heritage and ambitions of pursuing international collaboration through heritage: heritage as diplomacy is neither straightforward nor transparent. The chapter also presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book.
