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uplo-11650-m-15-97831122100790301Ubiquity Press1597831122100790610.1515/978311221007901internal-reference11650DGE20100201RUA Series ID8412601Publisher’s corporate websitehttps://uplopen.com02Publisher’s website for a specified workhttps://uplopen.com/books/m/10.1515/97831122100791A01Reinhard ZöllnerReinhardZöllnerUniversity of Bonn, Germany.01eng64923User DefinedHistory23User DefinedRegional and National History23User DefinedAsia-Pacific12Korea12dependency12discrimination12minority10HIS00000093NH01010302<p>This study examines the long-overlooked institution of slavery in Korea, challenging its erasure from historical narratives and reassessing its role within the country&#8217;s socio-political structure. It explores how slavery, deeply embedded in a lineage-based aristocracy, functioned not only as an economic driver but also as a hereditary status system that reinforced elite dominance and self-preservation. Using the concept of “servile society” (a society in which strong asymmetrical dependency is linked to hereditary social status in law and custom), the book examines how hereditary dependency shaped elite power, governance, and social hierarchies over centuries. The study combines political and legal history, social structures, and ideological frameworks to present the latest research on slavery in ancient Korea. It examines how slaves were constructed as a “special species” in the Korean Middle Ages, analyzes the role of slavery in the yangban-dominated society of the early modern period based on political-intellectual discourses and statistical data, and tracks the expansion of slavery discourses in Japanese and Western reception after c. 1800 based on texts and photographs; and examines the aftermath of slavery in the present.</p>0202<p>This study examines the long-overlooked institution of slavery in Korea, challenging its erasure from historical narratives and reassessing its role within the country&#8217;s socio-political structure. It explores how slavery, deeply embedded in a lineage-based aristocracy, functioned not only as an economic driver but also as a hereditary status system that reinforced elite dominance and self-preservation. Using the concept of “servile society” (a society in which strong asymmetrical dependency is linked to hereditary social status in law and custom), the book examines how hereditary dependency shaped elite power, governance, and social hierarchies over centuries. The study combines political and legal history, social structures, and ideological frameworks to present the latest research on slavery in ancient Korea. It examines how slaves were constructed as a “special species” in the Korean Middle Ages, analyzes the role of slavery in the yangban-dominated society of the early modern period based on political-intellectual discourses and statistical data, and tracks the expansion of slavery discourses in Japanese and Western reception after c. 1800 based on texts and photographs; and examines the aftermath of slavery in the present.</p>04Frontmatter Preface Conventions Abbreviations of Cited Sources Dedication Inhalt Introduction: The Servile Society Slavery in Ancient Korea Slavery in the Three Kingdoms Slavery in Shilla Slavery in a Pluralistic World: Koryŏ The Early Stage: Remission and Reaction The Crises in the Middle Koryŏ Period Reaffirming Slavery in Late Koryŏ Slavery in the Yangban State: Cosŏn Cosŏn: The Yangban State The Discourse On Slavery in the Cosŏn Period The Lines of Power School Slaves, Station Folk, and Female Entertainers in the Cosŏn Period Appendices Works Cited46http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/47Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)040301https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-uplo/files/media/cover_images/a99c4f0c-00b1-4f49-808a-4c15f0bb2efb.jpgDe Gruyter01De Gruyter01Publisher’s corporate websitehttps://uplopen.com02Publisher’s website for a specified workhttps://uplopen.com/books/m/10.1515/9783112210079Berlin0420251201