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Strangers on the Western Front : Chinese workers in the Great War / Xu Guoqi.

LIBRA D639.L2 X8 2011
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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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