My dissertation titled “Bondage in the Age of Mobility: Slavery, Gender, and Migration in Early Qing China” is a study of slavery through the lens of mobility and ethnicity in Manchu-ruled Qing China between 1636 and 1800. It investigates how the Manchu institution of slavery was maintained in a mobile empire marked by frequent expeditions and violent encounters with ethnic others. This project rewrites the Qing conquest of China, one of the most important political events in early modern East Asia, as a demographical transition: two million Manchu soldiers and their Han Chinese slaves moved from Manchuria to China proper. By examining legal cases, I argue that geographical relocation transformed the social relationships between masters and slaves in the post-migration era. Throughout, my dissertation from a non-Western standpoint provides a case study of slavery in an ethnically fluid and geographically moving empire.