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Chapter 23 - Dependency and Coercion in East Asian Labor, 1800–1949

from Part IV - Aftermath

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2017

By
Pamela Crossley
Edited by
David Eltis ,
Stanley L. Engerman ,
Seymour Drescher  and
David Richardson
David Eltis
Affiliation:
Emory University, Atlanta
Stanley L. Engerman
Affiliation:
University of Rochester, New York
Seymour Drescher
Affiliation:
University of Pittsburgh
David Richardson
Affiliation:
University of Hull
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The Cambridge World History of Slavery , pp. 540 - 561
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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A Guide to Further Reading

For studies of institutions of servitude in China, see:Google Scholar
Crossley, P. K., “Slavery in Early Modern China,” in Eltis, David and Engerman, Stanley L. (eds.), The Cambridge World History of Slavery (Cambridge, 2011–2017), Vol. 3 (1420–1804), pp. 186–215.Google Scholar
Schottenhammer, Angela, “Slaves and Forms of Slavery in Late Imperial China (Seventeenth to Early Twentieth Centuries),” Slavery and Abolition, 24 (2003): 143–54.Google Scholar
A major source on Japan is Nelson, Thomas, “Slavery in Medieval Japan,” Monumenta Nipponica, 59 (2004): 463–92, and for Korea see Kim, Bok Rae, “Nobi: A Korean System of Slavery,” in Gwyn Campbell (ed.), Structure of Slavery in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia (London, 2003).Google Scholar
For traditional servitude, see:Google Scholar
Anderson, Mary M., Hidden Power: The Palace Eunuchs of Imperial China (Buffalo, 1990).Google Scholar
Crossley, Pamela Kyle, Orphan Warriors: Three Manchu Generations and the End of the Qing World (Princeton, NJ, 1990).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kutcher, Norma A., “Unspoken Collusions: The Empowerment of Yuanming Yuan Eunuchs in the Qianlong Period,” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 70 (2010): 449–95.Google Scholar
Taisuke, Mitamura, Chinese Eunuchs: The Structure of Intimate Politics, trans. Pomeroy, Charles A. (Tokyo, 1970).Google Scholar
For histories of women in various contexts of dependency, see:Google Scholar
Herhatter, Gail, Women in China’s Long Twentieth Century (Berkeley, CA, 2007).Google Scholar
Sommer, Matthew H., Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China (Stanford, CA, 2000).Google Scholar
Yeung, Sau-Chu Alison, “Fornication in the Late Qing Legal Reforms: Moral Teachings and Legal Principles,” Modern China, 29 (2003): 297–328.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
On the role of indenture, contract labor, and political violence in migration, see:Google Scholar
Irick, Robert L., Ch’ing Policy toward the Coolie Trade: 1847–1878 (Taipei, 1982).Google Scholar
Patterson, Wayne, The Korean Frontier in America: Immigration to Hawaii, 1896–1910 (Honolulu, 1988).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
On the forced laborer’s experiences, see:Google Scholar
Glick, Clarence, Sojourners and Settlers: Chinese Migrants in Hawaii (Honolulu, 1980).Google Scholar
Glosser, Susan L., Chinese Visions of Family and State, 1915–1953 (Berkeley, CA, 2003).Google Scholar
Ling, Huping, Chinese Chicago: Race, Transnational Migration, and Community Since 1870 (Stanford, CA, 2012).Google Scholar
Rojas, Carlos, Homesickness: Culture, Contagion and National Transformation in Modern China (Cambridge, MA, 2015).Google Scholar
Yun, Lisa, The Coolie Speaks: Chinese Indentured Laborers and African Slaves in Cuba (Philadelphia, PA, 2008).Google Scholar

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