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Book Review: Unknown Tale of Chinese in WWI

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Sep 20, 2014
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The role of Chinese laborers employed by Britain and France on the Western Front in the First World War has recently received belated attention. Although they faced tough times, all but about 2,000 of the 140,000 recruited survived and most returned to China with money in their pockets.

Those who did not survive were mostly buried properly, notably in th…

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