Strangers on the Western Front [electronic resource] : Chinese workers in the Great War / Xu Guoqi.

By: Xu, GuoqiContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011Description: viii, 336 pISBN: 9780674060555 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): World War, 1914-1918 -- Conscript labor -- Europe | World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Chinese | World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain | World War, 1914-1918 -- France | Foreign workers, Chinese -- Europe -- History -- 20th century | Working class -- China -- History -- 20th century | China -- Relations -- Great Britain | China -- Relations -- France | Great Britain -- Relations -- China | France -- Relations -- ChinaGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 940.3089/951044 LOC classification: D639.L2 | X8 2011Online resources: Click to View
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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