Strangers on the Western Front : Chinese Workers in the Great War / Guoqi Xu.
Xu, Guoqi, author.
2011
D639.L2 X8 2011
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Title Strangers on the Western Front : Chinese Workers in the Great War / Guoqi Xu.
Author Xu, Guoqi, author.
ISBN 9780674060555
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674060555
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2011]
Copyright ©2011
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (366 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/9780674060555 doi
Call Number D639.L2 X8 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification 940.3089/951044
Summary This is a fresh work of history that crosses thematic boundaries: Chinese history, WWI history, world history, migration and labor history. It recovers the lost story of 140,000 Chinese workers, men mostly from the Northern Chinese province of Shandong, who were recruited by the British and French governments to support their fight against the Germans during WWI. These workers later were also "imported" to the US and Canada as those countries joined the war and felt the need for additional labor. The work is based on a decade of archival research in China, Taiwan, France, Germany, the US, Canada, and Britain. It sheds light on these long-forgotten workers, who were instrumental in the Allied efforts that resulted in a defeat of Germany. Yet the persistent racism they encountered in the West, and ultimately the erasure of their contribution both by the countries they served and the Chinese elites who recruited them for the purpose, raises the question of how power determines who is included and excluded from the historical record.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Note on Romanization
Introduction
1. Great War and Great Crisis: China, Britain, France, and the "Laborers as Soldiers" Strategy
2. The Recruitment and European Odyssey of the Men for Britain and France
3. The Hidden History of the Secret Canadian Pathway
4. Work
5. Treatment and Perceptions
6. Strangers in a Strange World: Chinese Lives in Eu rope
7. American Soldiers and Chinese Laborers
8. The Association Men and Chinese Laborers
9. The Fusion of Teaching and Learning: Students as Teachers and Vice Versa
10. A Fusion of Civilizations
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Huimin Contract with the French Government
Appendix 2: British Contract
Notes
Selected Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index

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