From the archive: The secret deportations: how Britain betrayed the Chinese men who served the country in the war

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🗓️ 29 May 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2021: During the second world war, Chinese merchant seamen helped keep Britain fed, fuelled and safe – and many gave their lives doing so. But from late 1945, hundreds of them who had settled in Liverpool suddenly disappeared. Now their children are piecing together the truth. By Dan Hancox. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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1:00.0	18-plus UK-only served from 11 a.m. terms apply. Hi my name's Dan Hancock's I'm a freelance writer and the author of the peace The Secret Deportations
1:27.2	How Britain Betray the Chinese Men who Served the Country in the War, which was published by the
1:32.1	Guardian Long Reed section in May 2021.
1:35.6	So I first became aware of this story while exploring the Museum of Liverpool back in October
1:41.8	2018. I was visiting Liverpool for the Labour Party
1:44.7	conference for work and in a little side room I was shocked to discover this small
1:49.5	exhibition called something like memories of my father or in search of my father I think it was
1:54.8	which was about this extraordinary very much concealed bit of British history that
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