Category: Migration

The British Army’s Chinese Auxiliaries in Arctic Russia

Posted on March 20, 2020 by

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Yuexin Rachel Lin While conducting research in the Academia Sinica digital archives in 2017, I stumbled across a remarkable document: A list of Chinese workers, part of a labour company recruited by the Slavo-British Legion in the northern Russian cities of Murmansk and Archangel.… Continue Reading “The British Army’s Chinese Auxiliaries in Arctic Russia”

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