Slavery and Bonded Labor in Asia, 1250–1900 is the first collection of studies to examine slavery and related forms of labor across the whole of Asia in well-developed local, regional, pan-regional, and comparative contexts.

Preface 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