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….

Category: China, Empire, Essays, Labour, Migration, Military, Russia, Russian Empire, Spaces, War, World Wars

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