It was unimaginable to publish a labor magazine in France for the World War I Chinese laborers, not least of the difficulties being that most of these laborers were just in process of learning to read Chinese. Yet Yan Yangchu achieved this mission impossible with his Chinese Laborers' Weekly, which became a milestone as a Chinese publication and in Chinese labor history and the history of World War I. It is a known fact that the Chinese Laborers' Weekly played a significant role in the life of Chinese laborers in Europe. Yet few historians have offered a comprehensive study of the Chinese Laborers' Weekly. Therefore quite a few important questions are left unanswered to modern scholars. For example, how did Yan Yangchu began to design a weekly to attract, entertain, and educate the Chinese laborers in Europe? What was his editorial policy? What kind of readings did he think that the Chinese laborers should have? How did he use this weekly to cultivate a modern worker who was loyal to his country, civil in spirit, and balanced in life? How did he use this Weekly as a forum to interact with his readers, and other contributors? It is the purpose of this study to begin to address these questions by exploring the concept, contents and significance of the Chinese Laborers' Weekly.