Slavery in East Asia

In premodern China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam, just as in the far less culturally cohesive countries composing the West of the Middle Ages, enslavement was an assumed condition of servitude warranting little examination, as the power and profits it afforded to the slaver made it a convention pursued unreflectively.

List of contents

Preface; Medieval East Asian Slavery in Overview; Medieval East Asian Slavery Defined and Ideologized; Trafficking in Slavery and the Law in Medieval East Asia; Coercive Laboring Economies in Medieval East Asia; Slave Social Organization, Culture, and Identity in Medieval East Asia; Gender, Enslavement, and Trafficking in Medieval East Asia; Family, Age, and Bondage in Medieval East Asia; Enslavement by Outsiders in Medieval East Asia: The Jingkang Incident and Aftermath; Enslavement of Outsiders in Medieval East Asia: China's Inevitable African Slaves; An East Asian Mode of Medieval Slavery?

Product details

• Authors: Don J. Wyatt, Don J. (Middlebury College Wyatt, Wyatt Don J.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.01.2023
• EAN: 9781009001700
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0900170-0
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in the Global Middle Ages
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; European History, HISTORY / World, General & world history, CE period up to c 1500, Medieval History, East Asia, Far East, Asian History, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, General and world history, Slavery & abolition of slavery, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Slavery and abolition of slavery