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

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"During World War I, Britain and France imported workers from their colonies to labor behind the front lines. The single largest group of support labor came not from imperial colonies, however, but from China. Xu Guoqi tells the remarkable story of the 140,000 Chinese men recruited for the Alli...

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Main Author: Xu, Guoqi, 1962-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
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 > China.
Foreign workers, Chinese
International relations
Working class
China
Europe
France
Great Britain
1900-1999
History

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Call Number: D639.L2 X8 2011eb
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