Slavery in East Asia / Don J. Wyatt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wyatt, Don J., author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in the global Middle Ages, 2632-3427.

Cambridge elements. Elements in the global Middle Ages, 2632-3427

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--East Asia--History--To 1500.

Slavery.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (78 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Slavery in East Asia

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?

References

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Dec 2022).

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781009020237

1009020234

9781009020435

1009020439

9781009007009

1009007009