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It is often directly translated as "bondservant", although sometimes also simply rendered as the common word, slave, or more specifically within Chinese social and political context as nucai. They were largely divided into three categories [1] [2] [3] translated into English: company servants (Chinese: 佐領下人; Chinese: zuǒlǐng xiàrén)
[9] [10] Bhutan is described by Tashi Wangchuk, a Bhutanese civil servant, as having officially abolished serfdom by 1959, but he believes that less than or about 10% of poor peasants were in copyhold situations. [11] The United Nations 1956 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery also prohibits serfdom as a practice similar to ...
indentured servant, may be called a "bondservant" This page was last edited on 30 November 2019, at 21:21 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The hours of working for domestic servants are unpredictable, and because many servants are women, their young children are often left under the care of older children or other family members. [21] [59] Moreover, these women can work up to the age of 75 and their daughters are likely to be servants in the same households. [59]
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Manchu Bannermen who needed money helped falsify registration for Han Chinese servants being adopted into the Manchu banners and Manchu families who lacked sons were allowed to adopt their servant's sons or servants themselves. [77] The Manchu families were paid to adopt Han Chinese sons from bondservant families by those families.
The official, who isn’t authorized to speak publicly about politics, said it follows other examples of prominent liberals’ refusing to give up power, including Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif ...
Rhoads, Edward J. M. (2000), Manchus and Han: Ethnic Relations and Political Power in Late Qing and Early Republican China, 1861–1928, University of Washington Press, ISBN 0-295-98040-0 Spence, Jonathan D. (1988), Tsʻao Yin and the Kʻang-hsi Emperor: Bondservant and Master , Yale Historical Publications: Miscellany, vol. 85, Yale University ...