Ubiquity Presstech@ubiquitypress.com20260404T081931Generated by RUA metadata exporteruplo-11650-m-15-978311221007903011597831122100790610.1515/978311221007901internal-reference1165000EBE10710Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/1001RUA Series ID84103260102Dependency and Slavery Studies0101Slavery and Servile Societies in Korean HistoryThe Hidden Background of Modern Korea1A01Reinhard ZöllnerReinhardZöllnerUniversity of Bonn, Germany.01eng006490323User DefinedHistory23User DefinedRegional and National History23User DefinedAsia-Pacific12Korea12dependency12discrimination12minority10HIS00000093NH010110300<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’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>20200<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’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>30400Frontmatter
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
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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>52000Open Access01000302https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-uplo/files/media/cover_images/a99c4f0c-00b1-4f49-808a-4c15f0bb2efb.jpg1030610.1515/9783112210079-fmCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Chapter0101Frontmatter1A01Reinhard ZöllnerReinhardZöllnerUniversity of Bonn, Germany.01eng12000Open Access2030610.1515/9783112210079-202Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Chapter0101Preface1A01Reinhard 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