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Book SynopsisSlavery and Bonded Labor in Asia, 1250–1900 is the first collection of studies to focus on slavery and related forms of labor throughout Asia. The 15 chapters by an international group of scholars assess the current state of Asian slavery studies, discuss new research on slave systems in Asia, identify avenues for future research, and explore new approaches to reconstructing the history of slavery and bonded labor in Asia and, by extension, elsewhere in the globe. Individual chapters examine slavery, slave trading, abolition, and bonded labor in places as diverse as Ceylon, China, India, Korea, the Mongol Empire, the Philippines, the Sulu Archipelago, and Timor in local, regional, pan-regional, and comparative contexts. Contributors are: Richard B. Allen, Michael D. Bennett, Claude Chevaleyre, Jeff Fynn-Paul, Hans Hägerdal, Shawna Herzog, Jessica Hinchy, Kumari Jayawardena, Rachel Kurian, Bonny Ling, Christopher Lovins, Stephanie Mawson, Anthony Reid, James Francis Warren, Don J. Wyatt, Harriet T. Zurndorfer.
Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures, Maps and Table Notes on Contributors Introduction: Slavery, Slave Trading, and Bonded Labor Studies in Asia Richard B. Allen Part 1: Conceptualizing Slave Status 1 Slavery and Forced Labour in Asia: Status Quaestionis Anthony Reid 2 Between Slave and Disciple in South Asia Jessica Hinchy 3 Gender and Slavery in Asia Shawna Herzog Part 2: Slavery, the State, and Society in East Asia 4 Slavery and the Mongol Empire Don J. Wyatt 5 Economic, Social, and Legal Aspects of Slavery and Indentured Labor in Late Ming China (1550–1644): What the Huizhou Documents Tell Us Harriet T. Zurndorfer 6 Human Trafficking in Late Imperial China Claude Chevaleyre 7 Korea: A Slave Society Christopher Lovins 8 The Abolition of Slavery, Constitutional Reforms, and Modernity in Late Qing China Bonny Ling Part 3: Slavery, Servitude, and European Colonialism 9 Slaves, Weavers, and the Peopling of East India Company Colonies, 1660–1730 Michael D. Bennett 10 Slavery, Conflict, and Empire in the Seventeenth-Century Philippines Stephanie Mawson 11 Pearling and Slavery in the Sulu Zone, 1882–1884: The Letters and Diary of Thomas Henry Haynes James Francis Warren 12 Slavery through Missionary Lenses: Timor in the Nineteenth Century Hans Hägerdal 13 Indebtedness, Socio-Cultural Hierarchies, and Unfree Labor on Nineteenth-Century Ceylonese Plantations Rachel Kurian and Kumari Jayawardena Part 4: Reflections 14 Slavery in Asia and Global Slavery Jeff Fynn-Paul Bibliography Index
