Slavery in East Asia

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-009-00170-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 75 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 127 g

Reihe: Elements in the Global Middle Ages

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. Slavery in medieval East Asia shared with the West the commonplace assumption that nearly all humans were potential chattel, that once they had become owned beings, they could then be either sold or inherited. Yet, despite being representative of perhaps the most universalizable human practice of that age, slavery in medieval East Asia was also endowed with its own distinctive traits and traditions. Our awareness of these features of distinction contributes immeasurably to a more nuanced understanding of slavery as the ubiquitous and openly practiced institution that it once was and the now illicit and surreptitious one that it intractably remains.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wyatt, Don J

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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?