LEADER 04009nam 2200721 a 450 001 9910810087903321 005 20230725031006.0 010 $a0-674-06055-5 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674060555 035 $a(CKB)2670000000081343 035 $a(OCoLC)733332523 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10456092 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000487672 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11318213 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000487672 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10443059 035 $a(PQKB)11416002 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300924 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300924 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10456092 035 $a(DE-B1597)586093 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674060555 035 $a(OCoLC)1301548679 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000081343 100 $a20100514d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aStrangers on the Western Front $eChinese workers in the Great War /$fXu Guoqi 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (367 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-04999-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aGreat 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. 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xConscript labor$zEurope 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xParticipation, Chinese 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$zGreat Britain 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$zFrance 606 $aForeign workers, Chinese$zEurope$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aWorking class$zChina$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aChina$xRelations$zGreat Britain 607 $aChina$xRelations$zFrance 607 $aGreat Britain$xRelations$zChina 607 $aFrance$xRelations$zChina 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918$xConscript labor 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918$xParticipation, Chinese. 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918 615 0$aForeign workers, Chinese$xHistory 615 0$aWorking class$xHistory 676 $a940.3089/951044 700 $aXu$b Guoqi$0786033 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910810087903321 996 $aStrangers on the Western Front$94003567 997 $aUNINA