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Author Xu, Guoqi.
Title Strangers on the Western Front [electronic resource] : Chinese workers in the Great War / Xu Guoqi.
Publication Info Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.


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Descript viii, 336 p.
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.
ISBN 9780674060555 (electronic bk.)
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Author Xu, Guoqi.
Subject China -- Relations -- Great Britain.
China -- Relations -- France.
Great Britain -- Relations -- China.
France -- Relations -- China.
Alt author ProQuest (Firm)
Descript viii, 336 p.
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.
ISBN 9780674060555 (electronic bk.)
Author Xu, Guoqi.
Subject China -- Relations -- Great Britain.
China -- Relations -- France.
Great Britain -- Relations -- China.
France -- Relations -- China.
Alt author ProQuest (Firm)

Subject China -- Relations -- Great Britain.
China -- Relations -- France.
Great Britain -- Relations -- China.
France -- Relations -- China.
Descript viii, 336 p.
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.
Alt author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780674060555 (electronic bk.)
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