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Gz:ell$ Slv91c&md, 大家猜的都差不多， angela的更是和正解几乎一字不差。
. "Q} 2 字典是这么说的：
UsgrI>|l 1. To kidnap (a man) for compulsory service aboard a ship, especially after drugging him.
`+!F#. 2. To induce or compel (someone) to do something, especially by fraud or force
oVQbc \P3 G=PX'dS 不过， 我当初的直觉反映是，上海人的名声这么不好呀， 怎么欧美也地域歧视呢？
bD`h/jYv 大家是不是和我差不多呀
~EM(*k. _ #|/ +znJm 真相是， 这个词是从美国贩华工的人贩子的恶行而来
]cM,m2^2 tE<'*o' 维基是这么说的
GL,( N| “Shanghaiing refers to the practice of conscripting men as sailors by coercive techniques such as trickery, intimidation, or violence. Those engaged in this form of kidnapping were known as crimps. Until 1915, unfree labor was widely used aboard American merchant ships. The related term press gang refers specifically to impressment practices in Great Britain's Royal Navy.
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\Vx_$E The role of crimps and the spread of the practice of shanghaiing resulted from a combination of laws, economic conditions, and the shortage of experienced sailors on the American West Coast in the mid-19th century.
m,)o&ix1 Hm'aD2k Crimps flourished in port cities like San Francisco in California, Portland and Astoria in Oregon, and Seattle and Port Townsend in Washington。On the East Coast, New York easily led the way, followed by Boston, Philadelphia, and Baltimore.
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W>(w&k]%B The practice was driven by a shortage of labor, particularly of skilled labor on ships on the West Coast. With crews abandoning ships en masse because of the California Gold Rush, a healthy body on board the ship was a boon.
=Q #d0Q ;r} yeI Sf Shanghaiing was made possible by the existence of boarding masters, whose job it was to find crews for ships. Boarding masters were paid "by the body," and thus had a strong incentive to place as many seamen on ships as possible. This pay was called "blood money。" These factors set the stage for the crimp: a boarding master who uses trickery, intimidation, or violence to put a sailor on a ship。
$]gflAe2 mo"1|Q& The most straightforward method for a crimp to shanghai a sailor was to render him unconscious, forge his signature on the ship's articles, and pick up his "blood money." This approach was widely used, but there were more profitable methods.
@pl h 'f} (,D:6(R7t Some crimps made as much as $9,500 per year in 1890s dollars, equivalent to about $220,000 in 2007 dollars.
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$ The crimps were well positioned politically to protect their lucrative trade. The keepers of boardinghouses for sailors supplied men on election day to go from one polling place to another, "voting early and often" for the candidate who would vote in their interest.[citation needed] In San Francisco, men such as Joseph "Frenchy" Franklin and George Lewis, long-time crimps, were elected to the California state legislature, an ideal spot to assure that no legislation was passed that would have a negative impact on their business.
}H:wgy` <>H^:iqn The most infamous examples included Jim "Shanghai" Kelly and Johnny "Shanghai Chicken" Devine of San Francisco, and Joseph "Bunco" Kelly of Portland. Stories of their ruthlessness are innumerable, and some have survived into print. ”
`(M0I!t INY?@in 简言之，美国淘金热的时候，水手都上岸淘金去了，船长们回程的时候没有足够的水手什么的，就买通了岸上酒吧的老板，把酒吧里面喝的醉醺醺的人偷偷弄到船上，马上开走，等酒鬼们醒了，已经在海上了。因为回程的船很多都是到上海去运华工的，所以时间久了就有了被"shanghai”的说法。的确是意指被骗的。
*i VE O I ZBY*kr 干这个行当的人， 和被选举出来的政府官员勾结， 有的甚至自己就被选为政府官员。 所以， 这种公开绑票行为得以长期存在， 直到1915年才被制止
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