19世纪中叶以后,成千上万的中国人被西方殖民者以契约华工的形式拐骗贩卖到拉丁美洲殖民地,开发当地经济。
From mid-19th century , thousands of Chinese , called Chinese Contract Bondage , were sent to the colonies of western capitalist countries in Latin-America as working labor to serve for local development .