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Min-Chin Chiang presents the extreme complexity of sharing the Japanese colonial past in postcolonial Taiwanese society. In this book she examines possibilities of decolonization through community-based heritage activities. Problems and ambiguity stemming from the tentative transformation from colonialism to locality help to trigger further thinking or warn against the ideological trap of taking mutality in 'sharing' the past for granted. Hence, decolonization does not necessarily mean 'removing colonial material traces'. Preserving colonial sites through recognising their contested nature, actively exploring and engaging controversial voices, insisting on exploring the historical depth of every memory version attached to the site, and transforming structural inequality with persistent locality building would better contribute to trigger a decolonizing process.