The Chinese workers of the Ching dynasty labored in agony in foreign shipping vessels. Far away from home they were not only called, "the yellow peril," but suffered from hard labor and rampant sickness.
清代的華工擠在「豬仔船」艙底越洋打拚，人在天涯，不但被稱為「黃禍」，也深受苦役及疫癘肆瘧，冤死者不知凡幾？