Tag Archives: First World War

First world war’s forgotten Chinese Labour Corps to get recognition at last

Campaign launched to create memorial in London to workers literally painted out of a canvas recording nations who joined war effort

Maev Kennedy
The Guardian, Thursday 14 August 2014 13.02 EDT

Chinese Labour Corps recruits exercising in Weihaiwei prior to departure to Europe
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Getting stuck in for Shanghai

Professor Robert Bickers of the University of Bristol explores the contradictions, patriotic fervour and battlefield experiences of the largest contingent of Shanghai British to fight the Kaiser’s forces in Europe, and the story of the city they left behind. Continue reading

Book Review: “The Chinese Labour Corps”

4 June 2014

In Western spheres of influence, WWI is also known as The Great War for Civilization, but it’s unlikely that the Chinese men recruited to supplement the French, British and American war efforts would have viewed it as such. Continue reading

The Chinese Labour Corps: The Forgotten Chinese Labourers of the First World War by Mark O’Neill

reviewed by Juan José Morales

15 June 2014 — The 100th anniversary of the First World War has prompted the publication of books that continue to shed light on the conflict, Continue reading