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• n  the state of a serf

• But its political ideas are astonishing: his sketches of venal bureaucrats, reckless aristocrats and heartbroken peasants formed an unprecedented challenge to serfdom and the .
• It meant that the bloody and dark Tibetan serfdom was fundamentally kicked into history.
• This poetry of despair sprang from the depths of serfdom, in lands where the soil is hard, the sun is cold, and foreign masters have always been harder and colder than either.

• serfhood
• vassalage

News & Articles

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• The Top Whatever, Week 10: Ranking only the college football teams that matter
  1. Alabama The people's champ. In the way that Mao Zedong was the people's champ: by oppressing the people at every turn and beating down on the necks of serfdom like the hateful rays of a blazing sun. You miss the obvious. Nick Saban got the students to stay in the stadium first, and then will get the state to congregate in Tuscaloosa, all before forcing the masses to the giant practice field ...
  Oct. 27, 2013 - SB Nation

Quotes

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• Osama bin Laden in CTV.ca
  Your Muslim nation is looking for you and praying for your victory. You are their hope after God. You are God's trusted soldiers who will liberate the ummah (the nation) from the serfdom of the crusaders in our countries,bin Laden said in the...
• Qiangba Puncog in Xinhua
  Qiangba, who was born to an impoverished Tibetan family 62 years ago, said "the old Tibet, which was under the control of the Dalai Lama, was a feudal serfdom darker and more undeveloped than the middle ages in Europe."
• Nirj Deva in Xinhua
  Tibet many years ago was a feudal serfdom with people being owned by other people and the Chinese central government liberated the Tibetan people from feudalism,Deva noted.