ISBN:
0674049993
,
9780674049994
Language:
English
Pages:
VIII, 336, [18] S.
,
Ill.
,
25 cm
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Dornel, Laurent Rezension von Xu Guoqi: Strangers on the Western Front Cambridge. Chinese Workers in the Great War 2014
DDC:
940.3089951044
Keywords:
World War, 1914-1918 Conscript labor
;
World War, 1914-1918
;
World War, 1914-1918
;
World War, 1914-1918
;
Foreign workers, Chinese History 20th century
;
Working class History 20th century
;
China Relations
;
China Relations
;
Great Britain Relations
;
France Relations
;
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
;
Frankreich
;
Chinesen
;
Erster Weltkrieg
;
Westfront
;
Erster Weltkrieg
;
Chinesen
;
Kriegsteilnehmer
;
Frankreich
;
England
;
Geschichte 1914-1918
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Great War and great crisis : China, Britain, France, and the "laborers as soldiers" strategyThe 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.
Description / Table of 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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=34500
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http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=35606
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