Search Results for slavery

...). The serenity of the art silences and conceals the ugly reality of the slaves’ lives. Another way of coming to a similar conclusion is Girija Joshi's attempt to interrogate visual representations of slavery in northern India on the basis of a Persian-language manuscript with paintings commissioned by James...

... but also a question of how to implement a system of sexual slavery in societies where gender norms differed considerably from those of the East Asian societies that made up the bulk of Japan's empire. Japanese soldiers’ preconceptions of Vietnamese women would have been predicated on an admixture...

...Paul A. Rodell The Embarrassment of Slavery: Controversies over Bondage and Nationalism in the American Colonial Philippines . By Michael Salman . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 2001 . xi , 335 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Marina Carter Fragments of Empire: Capital, Slavery and Indentured Labor in the British Caribbean . By Madhavi Kale . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 1998 . ii, 236 pp. $37.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Josephine Lee The Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery: The Chinese Worker and the Minstrel Form . By Caroline H. Yang . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press 2020 . xiii, 280 pp. ISBN: 9781503612051 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021 2021 Five...

...Jean Taylor Slavery, Bondage, and Dependency in Southeast Asia . Edited by Anthony Reid , with the assistance of Jennifer Brewster. St. Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1983 . N.p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986 1986 912 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...G. Carter Bentley The Sulu Zone, 1768–1898: The Dynamics of External Trade, Slavery, and Ethnicity in the Transformation of a Southeast Asian Maritime State . By James Francis Warren . Singapore : Singapore University Press , 1981 . xxvi, 390 pp. Tables, Maps, Appendixes, Glossary...

...David L. Curley Slavery in the Bengal Presidency, 1772–1843 . By Amal Kumar Chattopadhyay . London : Golden Eagle Publishing House , 1977 . xv , 278 pp. Bibliography, Index. £4.50; Rs. 60.00; $9.00 Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1978 1978 788 JOURNAL...

... and AMINUL HAQUE FARAIZI. Rotterdam: Erasmus University, Comparative Asian Studies Program, 1984. 146 pp. $5.00. Chains ofServitude: Bondage and Slavery in India. Edited by UTSA PATNAIK and MANJARI DINGWANEY. Madras: Sangam Books, 1985. viii, 380 pp. $40.00. (Distributed by Apt Books) "The emergence...

...Ssŭ-Yü Teng Slavery in China during the former Han dynasty, 206 B.C.–A.D. 25 . By C. Martin Wilbur . Anthropological Series , Vol. 34, Field Museum of Natural History , Chicago , 1943 . 490 p., n. p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1943 1943 408 THE FAR...

...Durba Ghosh Gender, Slavery and Law in Colonial India . By Indrani Chatterjee . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1999 . xii, 286 pp. $32.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 459 some grounds for a reciprocal...

...Nira Wickramasinghe; Alicia Schrikker Abstract This article discusses slavery and the lives of enslaved people in Jaffna, northern Sri Lanka, under Dutch and British rule. It argues that by sanctioning and tapping into a perceived local practice of slavery and legally constituting slaves, Dutch...

... Abstract The Journal 's February 1998 issue (57.1) carried an error in Thomas R. Metcalf's review of Marina Carter, Servants, Sirdars and Settlers: Indians in Mauritius, 1834–1874 . On page 250, Hugh Tinker's A New System of Slavery was erroneously cited as published in 1994 instead of 1974...

..., associated with the classicist Moses Finley in his studies of Greco-Roman society, between slave societies and societies with slaves (Finley 1983, 79–83). But my main purpose in focusing on Nuosu slavery, as we know it from the first half of the twentieth century, is to gain a better understanding of Nuosu...

... their magnitude or the institutional setting in which they function. For instance, though slaves were present in many societies, in only a few did the institution of slavery become an essential feature. And serfs (peasants attached to the soil or to the village) were present in several societies: they appeared...

... of slavery in Sri Lanka has been shunted to one side in both academic writing and popular memory. This ambitious book seeks to tell its history through a detailed examination of the period from 1799, when the British made their first move to dismantle slavery, to 1844, when the institution was finally...

...; but in the Philippines actual slavery though rarer than serfdom is still within living memory. A revival of compulsory labor for public purposes is dangerous chiefly because it may lead probably has already led to forced 127 128 THE FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY labor for private profit; and from this it is only a short step...

... be analyzed. It should be made required reading for everyone interested in the study of diasporic cultures and music and migration. MERCEDES M. DUJUNCO New York University The Embarrassment of Slavery: Controversies over Bondage and Nationalism in the American Colonial Philippines. By MICHAEL SALMAN. Berkeley...

... Chou ruling house ( A Short History of Chinese Civilization [New York, 1929 ], pp. 93 – 94 ). 7 Other Chinese advocates of this “slavery” viewpoint are Lü Chen-yü, Kuo Mo-jo, Fan Wen-lan, Chien Po-tsan, Hua Kang, and Teng Ch'u-min. 8 Wilbur C. M. , Slavery in China...

... a general program; thus, they are unable to get adequate help (pp. 171- Dr. Chattopadhyay explores two neglected topics. The first is slavery in Bengal Presidency under British rule. The second is a history of its regulation, and of its abolition in 1843. Official inquiries into slavery, rhetorically...