Chinese Overseas Labour and Globalisation in the Early Twentieth Century : Migrant Workers, Globalisation and the Sino-French Connection (Hardcover)

Introduction  1. Bartered ‘Swine’: Chinese Indentured Labour Before World War One  2. The Origins of the Chinese Francophile ‘Lobby’ and the Chinese Worker Presence in France  3. ‘An Army of Labour’: The French and British Recruitment of Chinese Workers in World War One  4. Protest and Self-Help: The Lives of Chinese Workers in World War One France  5. Reconstruction in Northern France and Repatriation (1918-1922)  Conclusion: The ‘Afterlife’ of World War One Chinese Workers and Contemporary Discourses of Chinese Overseas Labour