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Chinese Labour Corps workers in France during the First World War

The Chinese Labour Corps: The 140,000 Men Who Went to the Western Front and Left No House Behind

The Chinese Labour Corps: The 140,000 Men Who Went to the Western Front and Left No House Behind The Chinese Labour Corps: a branch of the diaspora the story skips The overseas-Chinese story most readers carry is southern, mercantile and remittance-shaped: a letter with money folded in it, a tower house, a grave beside the…

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World map of nineteenth-century Chinese emigration routes from Asia to the Americas and the Caribbean

The Hakka Diaspora Beyond Guangdong: Meizhou’s Guest People and Their Global Routes

Two exits from one province Guangdong's emigration ran at least two different machines, and only one left from a coast. The lane the world knows sailed from the delta edge — Taishan, Kaiping, Xinhui, Enping, Heshan, the counties grouped as the Wuyi — on credit-ticket passages: the Wuyi, Fujian and Chaozhou diaspora routes. The second…

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