President Woodrow Wilson describes “profound sympathy for China”.
May 4, 2017You have heard a great deal- something that was true and a great deal that was false-about that provision of the treaty which hands over to Japan the rights which Germany enjoyed in the Province of Shantung in China. In…
Commenting on the Betrayal in Paris
May 4, 2017So much for self-determination! I think it is really shameless! Mao Zedong The taste of colonialism in its full bitterness had never come home to the Chinese until then, even though we had already had the experience of several…
Lecture: ‘An Army of Workers’: The story of Chinese Labour in World War One France
April 28, 2017Wednesday, 10 May 2017 , 19:30 to 21:30 Durham University LECTURE ROOM EH103 Lecture by Professor Paul Bailey of Durham University. This lecture is hosted by the Friends of the Oriental Museum, as part of the 2016/17 series. The recruitment…
Centenary of the United States joining the war.
April 6, 2017On 6th April, 1917, the United States declared war on Germany [sentence edited in response to comment below]. This turn of events will lead to China’s eventual declaration of war. How so? China had attempted to formally join the allies…
Liverpool’s Chinese community support Everton FC and Liverpool FC Academies to Remember
March 28, 2017The Ensuring We Remember Campaign are proud to have supported a day of events in Liverpool on Tuesday 21 March. 15 young people from Everton FC Academy and 15 from Liverpool FC Academy were brought together by the project The…
Exhibition: A Good Reputation Endures Forever: The Chinese Labour Corps on the Western Front
March 16, 20177th April 2017, 10:00 to 24th September 2017, 17:00, Oriental Museum, Elvet Hill, Durham, DH1 3TH We have been privileged to have been working with Durham University’s Oriental Museum on this historic exhibition exploring the role of the thousands of…
Report on members of the Chinese Labourer Corps hospitalised in Liverpool.
March 8, 2017“The fact that none of them could speak English rendered the work somewhat difficult, an interpreter in the person of a Chinese corporal having to remain in the hospital during the whole of the time that any of the Chinese…
Meridian Society Chinese Labour Corps Project Launch Event – 19th April 2017
March 7, 2017Date: Wednesday, 19th April Time: 2.00-6.00pm Venue: Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT) SOAS University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG Entry: Free, but places must be booked in advance On 19th April, 1917, after a three-month journey over…
Out of China by Professor Robert Bickers
March 6, 2017Robert Bickers, who many will know from his excellent contribution to the Penguin (China) World War One Special Editions with Getting Stuck in For Shanghai: Putting the Kibosh on the Kaiser from the Bund: The British at Shanghai and the…
Corfflu Llafur Tsieineaidd | Two Videos in Welsh
March 2, 2017Erbyn hanner ffordd trwy 1916, roedd y rhagolwg o’r cyngrheiriaid colli’r rhyfel yn dod yn bosibilrwydd wirioneddol. Roedd prinder gweithlu beirniadol wedi’I rhagfynegi wrth dilyn y colliad enfawr a ddaeth o’r Brwydr y Somme. Cafodd yr argyfwng hyn ei ddatrys…
Corfflu Llafur Tsieineaidd
February 25, 2017Lansio ar Ddydd Gŵyl Dewi: Hanes anghofiedig y llafurwyr Tsieineaidd yn ystod y rhyfel byd cyntaf i gael ei adrodd yn gyfrwng y gymreag.
Reflections on SS Mendi Centenary Commemorations: A Chinese Perspective
February 21, 2017Steve Lau, Chair of the Ensuring We Remember Campaign, offers personal reflections on an SS Mendi commemoration event. The SS Mendi was en route from South Africa to France. On board were over 800 member of the South African Native…