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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
• VerfasserIn: Xu, Guoqi,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (366 p.)

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 g...

Table of Contents

• 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