We are pleased to announce that the latest issue of the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies has been published. It is a Special Issue on Slavery in Early Modern East, Inner, and Southeast Asia, with 10 original research articles, an introduction and afterword by leading scholars of slavery in East Asia, and additional supporting materials (art, maps, documentation and translations of primary sources).
The journal is available online through Project Muse at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/49044. Submission and subscription information is available at http://hjas.org/.
Melissa J. Brown, Managing Editor, HJAS, hjas@fas.harvard.edu
HJAS (Vol. 81, Nos. 1&2) Contents
Special Issue: Slavery in Early Modern East, Inner, and Southeast Asia
Introduction: The Widespread Invisibility of Slavery in Early Modern Asia
Lúcio de Sousa
The Slaves of Widow Tsieko: Chinese Slaveholders in the Dutch Empire
Adam Clulow and Siyen Fei
Domestic Law and Slavery in Late Imperial China: Glimpses from Lineage Registers
Claude Chevaleyre
Japan’s Invasion of Chosŏn Korea and Abduction of Koreans
Nam-lin Hur
Slavery and Genre in The Plum in the Golden Vase
Tina Lu
Slave Donations to Buddhist Parishes in Qing Mongolia
Sam H. Bass
Resilience of Korean Slavery: Tyrannical Owners, Resourceful Slaves, and the Equivocal State
Sun Joo Kim
Self-Enslavement as Resistance to the State? Siamese Early Modern Laws on Slavery
Eugénie Mérieau
The Commensurability of Slavery in Macau and South China
Stuart M. McManus
Temporarily for Your Majesty: Debates on Abolishing Courtesan Slavery in Chosŏn Korea
Hyun Suk Park
Remember Girl Zero: Asia-Pacific Patriliny and Female Slavery
Kristin Roebuck
Afterword: That Dynamic Spectrum
Johanna S. Ransmeier
Melissa J. Brown, Managing Editor, HJAS, hjas@fas.harvard.edu