(一)掠夺中国的劳动力是帝国主义侵华史中的一个重要方面。帝国主义打开中国门户,强迫签订不平等条约的动机和目标之一就是想从中国取得劳动力的供应。自1820年,即鸦片战争以前二十年起,直到1894年中日甲午战争,掠夺中国劳动力的主要方式,是使用暴力和欺诈,强迫中国的农民、小手工业者和小商贩出国,把他们押送 (1) The plundering of China’s labor force is an important aspect of the history of imperialist invasions of China. One of the motives and goals for imperialism to open its gateway to China and forcibly sign unequal treaties is to obtain a supply of labor from China. Since 1820, two decades before the Opium War, the main mode of plundering the Chinese labor force until the Sino-Japanese War of 1894, it was to use force and fraud to force Chinese peasants, small hand craftmen and small traders to go abroad and escort them