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Strangers on the Western Front: Chinese Workers in the Great War

Categorie	WO I
Boeknummer	#428907-XA52
Titel	Strangers on the Western Front: Chinese Workers in the Great War
Auteur	Xu, Guoqi
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press
Jaar van uitgave	2011
ISBN10	0674049993
ISBN13	9780674049994
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original grey cloth, silver lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated with photographs in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	These laborers, mostly illiterate peasants from north China, came voluntarily and worked in Europe longer than any other group. Xu explores China's reasons for sending its citizens to help the British and French (and, later, the Americans), the backgrounds of the workers, their difficult transit to Europe---across the Pacific, through Canada, and over the Atlantic---and their experiences with the Allied armies. It was the first encounter with Westerners for most of these Chinese peasants, and Xu also considers the story from their perspective: how they understood this distant war, the racism and suspicion they faced, and their attempts to hold on to their culture so far from home. --
Pagina's	336
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 25,00

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