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Strangers on the Western Front : Chinese workers in the Great War / Xu Guoqi.
LIBRA D639.L2 X8 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Xu, Guoqi, 1962-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1914-1918--Conscript labor--Europe.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- World War, 1914-1918--Participation, Chinese.
- World War, 1914-1918--Great Britain.
- World War, 1914-1918--France.
- Foreign workers, Chinese--Europe--History--20th century.
- Foreign workers, Chinese.
- Working class--China--History--20th century.
- Working class.
- Relations.
- History.
- China--Relations--Great Britain.
- China.
- China--Relations--France.
- Great Britain--Relations--China.
- Great Britain.
- France--Relations--China.
- France.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 336 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.
- Contents:
- Great War and great crisis : China, Britain, France, and the "laborers as soldiers" strategy
- The recruitment and European odyssey of the men for Britain and France
- The hidden history of the secret Canadian pathway
- Work
- Treatment and perceptions
- Strangers in a strange world : Chinese lives in Europe
- American soldiers and Chinese laborers
- The association men and Chinese laborers
- The fusion of teaching and learning : students as teachers and vice versa
- A fusion of civilizations
- Appendix 1: Huimin contract with the French government
- Appendix 2: British contract
- Selected glossary.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674049994
- 0674049993
- OCLC:
- 555658505
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