华工是华侨的一部分,华工可以笼统的定义为出外务工的中国工人。而晚清时期的华工出国的缘由却是各不相同的,他们的出走伴随着诸多的因素。从这些外出因素和方式来看,他们的命运似乎就是可以预见的。晚清华工的大量出国也是帝国主义侵华史中掠夺劳动力最有力的见证。本文拟就晚清华工问题的由来做一简要分析,以便进一步认识晚清华工问题所在。 Chinese laborers are part of overseas Chinese, and laborers can be broadly defined as Chinese workers who go abroad for work. The reasons for the overseas Chinese to go abroad in the late Qing period are quite different, and their departure is accompanied by many factors. From these factors and ways of going out, their fate seems to be predictable. The large number of Chinese laborers leaving the country in the late Qing Dynasty was also the most powerful testimony to plundering the labor force in the history of the invasion of China by the imperialists. This article intends to make a brief analysis of the origin of the late Qing Chinese laborers in order to further understand the problem of late Qing laborers.