imperial five punishments of feudal China, up to Han times: tattooing characters on the forehead 墨[mo4], cutting off the nose 劓[yi4], amputation of one or both feet 刖[yue4], castration 宮|宫[gong1], execution 大辟[da4 pi4] / Han dynasty onwards: whipping 笞[chi1], beating the legs and buttocks with rough thorns 杖[zhang4], forced labor 徒[tu2], exile or banishment 流[liu2], capital punishment 死[si3]
吃哑巴亏
chī yǎ ba kuī
to be forced to suffer in silence / unable to speak of one's bitter suffering
穿凿
chuān záo
to bore a hole / to give a forced interpretation
生拉硬拽
shēng lā yìng zhuài
to drag sb along against his will / to draw a forced analogy
to work in the fields (esp. young school-leavers) / forced agricultural experience for city intellectuals
五口通商
wǔ kǒu tōng shāng
the five treaty ports forced on Qing China by the 1842 treaty of Nanjing 南京條約|南京条约 / that concluded the First Opium War, namely: Guangzhou 廣州|广州, Fuzhou 福州, Ningbo 寧波|宁波, Xiamen or Amoy 廈門|厦门 / and Shanghai 上海
以身抵债
yǐ shēn dǐ zhài
forced labor to repay a debt
刑舂
xíng chōng
to be forced to grind grain as a punishment (old)
哑巴吃黄连，有苦说不出
yǎ ba chī huáng lián , yǒu kǔ shuō bu chū
to be forced to suffer in silence (idiom) / unable to speak of one's bitter suffering / sometimes written 啞子吃黃連，有苦說不出|哑子吃黄连，有苦说不出
强迫劳动
qiǎng pò láo dòng
forced labor (as punishment in criminal case)
敬酒不吃吃罚酒
jìng jiǔ bù chī chī fá jiǔ
lit. to refuse a toast only to be forced to drink a forfeit (idiom) / fig. to turn down a request only to be forced later to comply with it under pressure
瑷珲条约
Aì hún Tiáo yuē
Treaty of Aigun, 1858 unequal treaty forced on Qing China by Tsarist Russia
车奴
chē nú
car slave, sb forced to sacrifice quality of life to buy or maintain a car
通商口岸
tōng shāng kǒu àn
treaty port, forced on Qing China by the 19th century Great Powers
form of torture said to have been used by King Zhou of Shang 商紂王|商纣王[Shang1 Zhou4 Wang2] in which the victim was forced onto a bronze pillar heated by a fire
yì