History of Chinese Workers
by Dong Conglin
About This Novel
The history of overseas Chinese labor in modern China is essentially a history of the coolie trade, which is a criminal product of colonialism. Looking at its history, it first started before the Opium War with the trafficking of "piglets" Chinese workers to "Nanyang". After the Opium War, China became a semi-colonial country and its sovereignty was seriously violated. The colonialists used the treaty ports designated by unequal treaties as bases and strongholds to wildly set off a vicious tide of trafficking in Chinese laborers. They not only trafficked Chinese laborers to Southeast Asia on a large scale, but also expanded their scope to Latin America, North America and other regions. A large number of Chinese workers were trafficked overseas and lived a life of hard labor that was worse than pigs and dogs. After the end of World War I, the trafficking of Chinese laborers abroad still did not disappear, and even experienced a resurgence. By the 1930s, the situation of Chinese workers being trafficked overseas as coolies ended.
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