Chinese units in World War I
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'Chinese workers helped rebuild war-torn Europe, says Hong Kong University historian Xu Guoqi. About 140,000 worked for American, British and French troops in France, his research shows. Up to half a million Chinese workers laboured on the eastern front for Tsarist Russia, before the empire crumbled in the 1917 Communist revolution, according to the unpublished research of historian Li Zhixue of Jinan University.'[1].
Sources
- South China Morning Posts' The forgotten army of the first world war: How Chinese labourers helped shape Europe
- Chatham House publication First World War: China's forgotten foreign legion by Helen Fitzwilliam in The World Today, June 2014, Volume 70, Number 3
- China on the Western Front, a short film by Helen Fitzwilliam
- Chinese Labour Corps page on Wikipedia contains further published references
