The British Hong Kong Government On The Historical Evolution Of Chinese Laborers (1853-1930)

The overseas Chinese laborer who went abroad, began in the 18thcentury, and less advanced entered the high tide in the 19th century 50's,only then considered the conclusion to the 20th century 30's. Around thisapproximately in 200 years, overseas Chinese laborer abroad exceed 1000people, which constituted in the Chinese modern history a noticeablehistorical phenomenon. Since long ago, the above process expanded thecolonizer in the West capitalism orientation aggression and plundered thepopulation to produce for under slave's background, moreover theoverseas Chinese laborer abroad entered the high tide, when China earlytime modernization started stage. Therefore, the overseas Chinese laborerabroad into the Chinese and foreign negotiation history and in theChinese early time modernization researched complex extremely and thesensitive question.The article has proven that Hong Kong was once objectively themajor port which the overseas Chinese laborer went abroad. BeingFollowed the Chinese government's change which went abroad to theoverseas Chinese laborer, the article multianalysised Hong Kong-Britishgovernment had at the right moment made policy adjustment, thusdemonstrated this policy history succession variation process. When theChinese government tacitly consented to the overseas Chinese laborerabroad, England was the colony to coolie's demand, so the policy whichHong Kong-British government made was positive. In 1861, after theOpium War defeated, the Qing government signed "the Beijing Treaty",and the overseas Chinese laborer abroad proposed the legalizationprogram. Hong Kong-British government's manner was rampant, but had also manifested certain legalization procedure. Because the outsideoverseas Chinese laborer suffered from the inhuman treatment, the Qinggovernment under the public opinion pressure announced forbids theoverseas Chinese laborer to go abroad in 1905. Hong Kong-Britishgovernment was throwing over the coat which "is legitimate andvoluntary" and continued "to let matters drift". The article elaboratesemphatically the policy historical evolution to the overseas Chineselaborer, which was made by Hong Kong-British government in1853-1930 in order to reflect completely this time interweaves in theoverseas Chinese laborer abroad on many kinds of contradictions and thetrend.This kind of new policy evolved appearance, is not pure the HongKong-British government own adjustment result, but to a great extentbenefits from the national policy change. Particularly the objectiveinfluence which was produced by the Qing government carried out theoverseas Chinese laborer abroad, had provided the feasible condition andthe reference for new policy embryonic form breeding. This time, HongKong-British government and the Qing government both had the newpolicy evolution and started to construct one kind of new interactionrelations mechanism mutually, which produced the noticeable vitalfunction and the influence to the Chinese early time to develop theadvancement to foreign relations.