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.

Product details

• Authors: Don J. (Middlebury College Wyatt, Wyatt Don J., Don J. Wyatt
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 05.01.2023
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
• EAN: 9781009001700
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0900170-0
• Pages: 75
• Series: Elements in the Global Middle Ages
• Subjects: 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