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092 0  940.3|bengelska 
100 1  Black, Dan,|d1957-|4aut 
245 10 Harry Livingstone's forgotten men :|bCanadians and the 
       Chinese Labour Corps in the First World War /|cDan Black 
264  1 Toronto :|bJames Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers,
       |c[2019] 
264  4 |c©2019 
300    503 pages|billustrations, maps|c23 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 489-493) and 
       index 
520    "During the First World War, more than 80,000 Chinese 
       labourers were secretly transported from China across 
       Canada to the Western Front where they built bridges and 
       roads, repaired tanks, unloaded supplies, and then, after 
       the war, cleaned up the grisly battlefields. Though the 
       use of Chinese labourers for the war has been known, the 
       story of their journey and their work, and the role of 
       Canadians in recruiting and transporting them, has not 
       been fully told--until now. In Canadians and the Chinese 
       Labour Corps in the First World War, Dan Black, co-author 
       of Old Enough to Fight, describes the perilous journey 
       taken by the Chinese labourers from their remote villages 
       in China, across the North Pacific, the vast country of 
       Canada from Vancouver to Halifax, and across the North 
       Atlantic to the battlefields of Europe, and then back 
       again. For political reasons--it was a time of deep 
       discrimination against the Chinese in Canada-- and to 
       prevent them from escaping, the Chinese labourers were 
       locked into cattle cars and forbidden to disembark during 
       the journey. The Canadian public, too, was kept in the 
       dark about the trains. But their experience is indelibly 
       evident--in graves across the country from Vancouver 
       Island to Thunder Bay, and Petawawa to Halifax. One 
       Canadian in particular plays a central role in this story-
       -Captain Harry Livingstone, a small-town doctor from 
       Listowel, Ontario. Livingstone joined the Canadian Army 
       Medical Corps in 1917, at the age of 28. His first 
       assignment was to go to northeast China to a recruitment 
       depot, where he examined poor, young Chinese men to ensure
       they were fit for service. He later joined them on their 
       journey across the North Pacific to a quarantine station 
       on Canada's West Coast. Drawing on the diaries written by 
       Livingstone, and the letters of the Canadian missionaries 
       who served as temporary officers with the corps in Europe,
       Dan Black traces the experience of the Chinese Labour 
       Corps and sheds new light on the mistreatment and racism 
       they faced in Canada and in wartime Europe."--|cProvided 
       by publisher 
530    Issued also in electronic format 
610 27 Chinese Labour Corps.|2fast 
611 27 World War (1914-1918)|2fast 
648  7 1900-talet|2sao 
650  0 Foreign workers, Chinese|zCanada|xHistory|y20th century 
650  0 Foreign workers, Chinese|zFrance|xHistory|y20th century 
650  0 World War, 1914-1918|xParticipation, Chinese 
650  0 World War, 1914-1918|xParticipation, Canadian 
650  7 Utländsk arbetskraft|2sao 
650  7 Första världskriget 1914-1918|2sao 
650  7 Foreign workers, Chinese.|2fast 
650  7 Military participation|xCanadian.|2fast 
651  4 Kanada 
651  4 Kina 
651  7 Canada.|2fast 
651  7 France.|2fast 
655  7 History|2fast