led the transition from feudalism to capitalism. The decline of serfdom between c.1300 and c.1500 in England is centralto this "Transition Debate", because it transformed the lives of ordinary people ...

In the areas of the Tibetan, Dai and Yi people, still living under a slave system and feudal serfdom, positive but careful measures were taken by the state. A policy of redemption was employed ...

It represented the will and interests of serf-owners. The three-estate holders, wielding the power in their hands, left no stone unturned to safeguard the decaying and feudal serf system, and ruled ...

The feudal serfdom holding sway in old Tibet seriously fettered social development in Tibet. Groaning under the cruel system 95 percent of the Tibetans had difficulties keeping their heads above water ...