With The Chinks In The Chinese Labour Corps During The Great War
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With The Chinks In The Chinese Labour Corps During The Great War
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Author : Daryl Klein
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
With The Chinks In The Chinese Labour Corps During The Great War written by Daryl Klein and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
The Chinese Labour Corps were the "coolies" recruited for menial tasks supporting the BEF in the Great War. 96,000 went to France - 2,000 died. This is a fascinating - if deeply patronising - portrait of them by one of their British officers.
With The Chinese Labour Corps During The Great War
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Author : Daryl Klein
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-07-17
With The Chinese Labour Corps During The Great War written by Daryl Klein and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-17 with categories.
The Chinese Labour Corps were the 'coolies' recruited for menial tasks supporting the BEF in the Great War. 96,000 went to France - 2,000 died. This is a fascinating - if deeply patronising - portrait of them by one of their British officers.
The Chinese Labour Corps
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Author : Mark O'Neill
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
Release Date : 2014
The Chinese Labour Corps written by Mark O'Neill and has been published by Penguin Random House Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Foreign workers, Chinese categories.
As the young men of Europe were fighting in the trenches, a little known contingent of Chinese labourers crossed the world to provide support vital to the Allied war effort. Largely illiterate farmers from northern China, these men were simply attempting to make a better life for themselves, ignorant of the war and its causes. Under brutal conditions, many died for their efforts, and their involvement wasn't recognised for decades it is still not widely known. In this fascinating First World War China Special, journalist Mark O'Neill brings their story to light, describing in detail the labourers' recruitment, their daily experiences in a foreign land and the horrific work they carrier out including the clearing of remains from battlefields.
The Forgotten
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Author : Will Davies
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-03
The Forgotten written by Will Davies and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03 with History categories.
The Forgotten explores an often-overlooked part of Australia's rich and diverse history - the service and sacrifice of the Chinese Labour Corps who worked under the British and French on the Western Front during the First World War. It puts the story of the Chinese Labour Corps into the broader history of China's encounters with western European nations since the 1700s. A part of that story includes the large numbers of Chinese people who immigrated to Australia during this period. It was the sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons of these Chinese settlers who volunteered to fight for Australia during the First World War. Those men are the Chinese Anzacs. The Forgotten celebrates the shared history between China and Australia and the combined efforts to promote peace.
The Chinese Labour Corps 1916 1920
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Author : Gregory James
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
The Chinese Labour Corps 1916 1920 written by Gregory James and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Foreign workers, Chinese categories.
Informative account of the creation, management and operation of the 95,000-strong auxiliary unit recruited in China for service in Europe during the First World War. Financed and administered by the British War Office, it was raised at a time when Allied casualties, on the Western Front and elsewhere, had seriously reduced the availability of the manpower necessary to ensure the maintenance of a combat-fit military force. He shows that the Chinese Labour Corps derived its organisational structure from earlier Chinese units in foreign service, for example the Canton Coolie Corps recruited by the British and French during the second Opium War in the mid-nineteenth century, or the contingents of labourers contracted to the mines of the Transvaal at the turn of the twentieth. In this important and wide-ranging contribution to military history, the author draws on an extensive array of public and unofficial sources to chronicle the saga of a wartime cross-cultural encounter whose legacy remains in the narrative of contemporary Sino-Western relations--From publisher's Website.
Gender And Short Fiction
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Author : Jorge Sacido-Romero
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-05-30
Gender And Short Fiction written by Jorge Sacido-Romero and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
In their new monograph, Gender and Short Fiction: Women's Tales in Contemporary Britain, Jorge Sacido-Romero and Laura M Lojo-Rodriguez explain why artistically ambitious women writers continue turning to the short story, a genre that has not yet attained the degree of literary prestige and social recognition the novel has had in the modern period. In this timely volume, the editors endorse the view that the genre still retains its potential as a vehicle for the expression of female experience alternative to and/or critical with dominant patriarchal ideology present at the very onset of the development of the modern British short story at the turn of the nineteenth century.
Landscapes Of The Western Front
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Author : Ross Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-06-17
Landscapes Of The Western Front written by Ross Wilson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-17 with History categories.
This book examines the British soldiers on the Western Front and how they responded to the war landscape they encountered behind the lines and at the front. Using a multidisciplinary perspective, this study investigates the relationship between soldiers and the spaces and materials of the warzone, analyzing how soldiers constructed a ‘sense of place’ in the hostile, unpredictable environment. Drawing upon recent developments within First World War Studies and the anthropological examination of the fields of conflict, an ethnohistorical perspective of the soldiers is built which details the various ways soldiers responded to the physical and material world of the Western Front. This study is also grounded in the wider debates on how the First World War is remembered within Britain and offers an alternative perspective on the individuals who fought in the world’s first global conflagration nearly a century ago.
1914 Goodbye To All That
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Author : Ali Smith
language : en
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Release Date : 2014-07-31
1914 Goodbye To All That written by Ali Smith and has been published by Pushkin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-31 with Literary Collections categories.
A wide-ranging collection of reflective essays, to mark the centenary of the conflict that changed the world.In this collection of essays, ten leading writers from different countries consider the conflicts that have informed their own literary lives. 1914-Goodbye to All That borrows its title from Robert Graves's "bitter leave-taking of England" in which he writes not only of the First World War but the questions it raised: how to live, how to live with each other, and how to write.Interpreting this title as broadly and ambiguously as Graves intended, these essays mark the War's centenary by reinvigorating these questions. The book includes Elif Shafak on an inheritance of silence in Turkey, Ali Smith on lost voices in Scotland, Xiaolu Guo on the 100,000 Chinese sent to the Front, Daniel Kehlmann on hypnotism in Berlin, Colm Toibin on Lady Gregory losing her son fighting for Britain as she fought for an independent Ireland, Kamila Shamsie on reimagining Karachi, Erwin Mortier on occupied Belgium's legacy of shame, NoViolet Bulawayo on Zimbabwe and clarity, Ales Steger on resisting history in Slovenia, and Jeanette Winterson on what art is for.Contributors include: ;Ali Smith - Scotland ;Ales Steger - Slovenia ;Jeanette Winterson - England ;Elif Shafak - Turkey ;NoViolet Bulawayo - Zimbabwe ;Colm Toibin - Ireland ;Xiaolu Guo - China ;Erwin Mortier - BelgiumKamila Shamsie - Pakistan ;Daniel Kehlmann - Germany
Strangers On The Western Front
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Author : Guoqi Xu
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2011-02-28
Strangers On The Western Front written by Guoqi Xu and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-28 with History categories.
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 Allied war effort. 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. In recovering this fascinating lost story, Xu highlights the Chinese contribution to World War I and illuminates the essential role these unsung laborers played in modern China’s search for a new national identity on the global stage.
Strangers On The Western Front
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Author : Guoqi Xu
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2011-02-18
Strangers On The Western Front written by Guoqi Xu and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-18 with History categories.
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. --