to be subordinate to or under the jurisdiction of

Zhili, a province from Ming times until 1928, roughly corresponding to present-day Hebei

clerical script; official script (Chinese calligraphic style)

slave-owning society (precedes feudal society in Marxist theory)

a ship used for the transportation of enslaved people, particularly in the context of the transatlantic slave trade

servants; underlings

(of an entity) to come under the administration of a different authority