Ep. 207 | The Forgotten Chinese Labour Corps

The China History Podcast

Laszlo Montgomery

History, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In commemoration of the American Labor Day Holiday, Laszlo brings you a rather forgotten tale from the annals of Chinese modern history. As discussed in previous CHP episodes, the Chinese Labour Corps played a thankless but critical role in the allied victory over Germany in WWI. Who could have predicted the series of events that would happen as a result of the story of these men and the subsequent peace treaty that didn't recognize them or their country?

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0:57.0	Hi everyone, welcome back again, Lausle Montgomery here at your service for the
1:01.4	207th time and counting with another gem from Chinese history,
1:06.7	modern Chinese history this time. Here in the Home of the Brave, we celebrate Labor Day every first Monday in September since the 1880s.
1:17.6	It's a holiday to honor the working people of this amazing country. So this episode is dedicated to all those
1:25.0	working men and women who this holiday commemorates. I guess if you go back to the
1:29.8	time of the pyramids or the Dead Sea Scrolls. Workers always get short shrift in the history books.
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