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The Chinese Labour Corps
Manage episode 358756702 series 3403039
Though largely forgotten in the West, during the First World War, some 140,000 Chinese went to the Western Front to support Britain, France, and the United States. They were not meant to play a combat role but instead to help with logistics and support so that the Allies could free up more soldiers for fighting. Nonetheless, some 2,000 of them ended up buried in northern France and Belgium.
This is the story of how they went and why, and how their story and its aftermath indirectly but crucially shaped the course of modern Chinese history.
160 episoder
Manage episode 358756702 series 3403039
Though largely forgotten in the West, during the First World War, some 140,000 Chinese went to the Western Front to support Britain, France, and the United States. They were not meant to play a combat role but instead to help with logistics and support so that the Allies could free up more soldiers for fighting. Nonetheless, some 2,000 of them ended up buried in northern France and Belgium.
This is the story of how they went and why, and how their story and its aftermath indirectly but crucially shaped the course of modern Chinese history.
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