Xu Guoqi is Professor of History at the University of Hong Kong.
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.
發表於2024-11-04
Strangers on the Western Front 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
小人物與大曆史:第一次世界大戰期間的華工 文/馬建標 (此文發錶於《中華讀書報》2011年8月10日,第10版) 一戰期間,英法兩國曾從中國招募14萬華工,馳援歐洲戰場。這些華工大部分是目不識丁的農民,他們去往歐洲的路上曆盡韆辛萬苦。先渡太平...
評分小人物與大曆史:第一次世界大戰期間的華工 文/馬建標 (此文發錶於《中華讀書報》2011年8月10日,第10版) 一戰期間,英法兩國曾從中國招募14萬華工,馳援歐洲戰場。這些華工大部分是目不識丁的農民,他們去往歐洲的路上曆盡韆辛萬苦。先渡太平...
評分小人物與大曆史:第一次世界大戰期間的華工 文/馬建標 (此文發錶於《中華讀書報》2011年8月10日,第10版) 一戰期間,英法兩國曾從中國招募14萬華工,馳援歐洲戰場。這些華工大部分是目不識丁的農民,他們去往歐洲的路上曆盡韆辛萬苦。先渡太平...
評分小人物與大曆史:第一次世界大戰期間的華工 文/馬建標 (此文發錶於《中華讀書報》2011年8月10日,第10版) 一戰期間,英法兩國曾從中國招募14萬華工,馳援歐洲戰場。這些華工大部分是目不識丁的農民,他們去往歐洲的路上曆盡韆辛萬苦。先渡太平...
評分小人物與大曆史:第一次世界大戰期間的華工 文/馬建標 (此文發錶於《中華讀書報》2011年8月10日,第10版) 一戰期間,英法兩國曾從中國招募14萬華工,馳援歐洲戰場。這些華工大部分是目不識丁的農民,他們去往歐洲的路上曆盡韆辛萬苦。先渡太平...
圖書標籤: 徐國琦 民國 曆史 一戰 近代史 海外中國研究 曆史學 華工
well-researched and well-written; very touching details but not overly sentimental; a tour de force of global history that uses archives from multiple countries in a productive way. I esp. like the chapter on how the Chinese laborers crossed the Canadian continent by railroad. Highly recommend.
評分能看得人黯然神傷...
評分曆史敘事一般,但是題目本身就值得一星
評分well-researched and well-written; very touching details but not overly sentimental; a tour de force of global history that uses archives from multiple countries in a productive way. I esp. like the chapter on how the Chinese laborers crossed the Canadian continent by railroad. Highly recommend.
評分能看得人黯然神傷...
Strangers on the Western Front 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載