http://www.froginawell.net/china/2008/11/chinese-in-the-great-war/ The China History Group Blog Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:40:25 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.froginawell.net/china/2008/11/chinese-in-the-great-war/comment-page-1/#comment-133499 China Journal : Best of the China Blogs: November 13 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:03:41 +0000 http://www.froginawell.net/china/?p=827#comment-133499 [...] observing Veteran’s Day, a call to remember the Chinese laborers of the Great War (h/t Frog in a Well) [Blood & [...] [...] observing Veteran’s Day, a call to remember the Chinese laborers of the Great War (h/t Frog in a Well) [Blood & [...]

]]> http://www.froginawell.net/china/2008/11/chinese-in-the-great-war/comment-page-1/#comment-133373 C. W. Hayford Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:28:54 +0000 http://www.froginawell.net/china/?p=827#comment-133373 I wrote about the Chinese Labor Corps in my James Yen book, TO THE PEOPLE, for it was working with the CLC that Yen found his life work. This has been (to my unbiased mind) the best brief summary, but the CLC now is being given full treatment by Xu Guoqi, whose book OLYMPIC DREAMS (Harvard 2008) we noted here at Frog and whose book CHINA AND THE GREAT WAR (Cambridge University Press, 2005)opened up new ways of looking at China's relations with the world. I wrote about the Chinese Labor Corps in my James Yen book, TO THE PEOPLE, for it was working with the CLC that Yen found his life work. This has been (to my unbiased mind) the best brief summary, but the CLC now is being given full treatment by Xu Guoqi, whose book OLYMPIC DREAMS (Harvard 2008) we noted here at Frog and whose book CHINA AND THE GREAT WAR (Cambridge University Press, 2005)opened up new ways of looking at China’s relations with the world.

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