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A Guest in a Foreign Land: Waking up from a Dream Xiao Xingzun Eating Small GrapesHistorical11k Wordsongoing This book tells the tragic history of the poor Chinese people who were tricked or forced to work hard in Nanyang and other overseas areas from the late Qing Dynasty to the early 20th century. At that time, the domestic society was in turmoil and people were living in poverty. Great powers such as Britain were in urgent need of cheap labor to develop colonies. Through false propaganda and deception, the colonists set up "recruitment centers" in Hong Kong and Macao, tricked a large number of poor —Reads—Score—Shelves