The Untethered Ashes
Extended Research
Weihai Port
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Mining Industries and Recruitments
1904
Before the official recruitment of Chinese labours, the British has established a coolie camp, or a barrack at the shore of Weihai Port. The camp, formerly set up by Johannesburg Mining Association in 1904, was used to recruit Chinese Miners abroad to work at South African mining sites due to local labour shortage after the Anglo-Boer War during 1899-1902.
