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Slavery in East Asia (Paperback)
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Slavery in East Asia (Paperback)
Series: Elements in the Global Middle Ages
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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.
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