Matyas Mervay- European Refugees in Twentieth-Century China

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Matyas Mervay is a Ph.D. candidate at New York University. He specializes in the history of modern China. Mervay discusses the influx of refugees into China from Central Europe during World War I, and the means by which these refugees travelled across the Eurasian continent. He also addresses the ways in which the Chinese government reacted to and handled the inflow of these migrants.