Zhu Guisheng Explained

Zhu Guisheng
Birth Date:1896
Death Date:March 2002
Death Place:La Rochelle, France
Occupation:Electrician
Awards:French Legion of Honor
Known For:Last surviving member of the Chinese Labour Corps

Zhu Guisheng (1896 – March 2002), was the last surviving member of the Chinese Labour Corps (CLC).

Guisheng was from the Shandong province of China when in 1916 he signed a five-year contract to join the Chinese Labour Corps, through the Huimin Company.[1] [2] He possibly left Qingdao in August 1916, to join the Chinese Labour Corps in France.[1] After the war, he remained in France.[2]

Guisheng worked with the French in the Second World War.[2] He married a French woman and they had two children.[2] He worked as an electrician and had also operated cranes.[2] In 1989, he was one of only two surviving CLC members who were awarded the French Legion of Honor in 1989.[2]

Guisheng died at the age of 106, in La Rochelle in March 2002.[2] Until then he had been the last surviving member of the Chinese Labour Corps.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Rogers . Roy Anthony . Daut . Nur Rafeeda . China in the First World War: A Forgotten Army in Search of International Recognition - ProQuest . Contemporary Chinese Political Economy and Strategic Relations . December 2017 . 3 . 3 . 1237-1269 . en.
  2. Web site: Carter . James . 9 March 2022 . The last of the Chinese Labour Corps, Zhu Guisheng . https://web.archive.org/web/20221015125446/https://thechinaproject.com/2022/03/09/the-last-of-the-chinese-labour-corps-zhu-guisheng/ . 15 October 2022 . 29 June 2022 . SupChina.