华工赴欧是中国在一战期间所作的主要贡献之一，也是西方士兵接触华人的重要契机。通过分析一战西线士兵出版物中涉及华工的200篇文章，可知西线士兵笔下的华工形象经历了一个建构、解构、再建构的过程。在华工赴欧前，士兵将华工视为“他者”，习惯对华工进行丑化与极端化处理；在华工赴欧后，由于双方在大战期间积累了共同的战争体验，士兵逐渐将华工视为“男孩”，华工形象变得真实且生动，华工的贡献得到了士兵的认可，华工背后的中华文化也得到了一定程度的包容。但这种短暂的身份认同是建立在战争这一特殊的条件基础上的，一旦战争结束，华工又迅速地变回了“他者”，再次受到西方排斥。只有东西方文化处于平等地位时，华工形象才可能真正得到重塑。

The participation of Chinese labors is both China’s great contributions during WWI and occidental soldiers’ opportunity to get in touch with Chinese. According to the analysis of 200 articles in the western front trench press during WWI which is related to Chinese labors, it is found that Chinese labor’s image in soldiers’ eyes has experienced construction, deconstruction and reconstruction. Before Chinese labors’ arriving, soldiers regarded Chinese labors as “the Other,” whose image was generally uglified, extremalized and stereotyped in trench press; afterwards, due to mutual wartime experience, soldiers gradually regarded Chinese labors as “boys,” whose image become authentic and vivid while the contribution and cultural background of whom had been recognized as well. However, the temporary mutual identity is merely based on a specific condition-that is, the Great War- after which, Chinese labor become “the Other” and got rejected by the occidentals again. Only when occidental and oriental culture share the same status can the image of Chinese labor get authentically remodeled.