Please note performances of Chinese Labour Corps have now ended. Chinese labourers were treated badly during the First World War but it’s difficult to think of any group that wasn’t, including the British Tommy. That is true, but equally true is that some were treated worse than others. On this Ian Henery and the Blue …
Category Archives: CLC related events
New play: Forgotten 遗忘
PLYMOUTH 17 October -20 October LONDON 23 October–17 November 2018 “The foreign devils will be entranced by our performance and line our path back to Shandong with gold and cherry blossoms…” 1917. Shandong Province, Northern China. Times are tough in Horse Shoe Village. Old Six and Second Moon struggle to earn enough to feed their …
Dertien van Busseboom – The Busseboom Thirteen and Belgium’s Memorial to the Chinese Labour Corps.
Exactly one hundred years ago today thirteen members of the Chinese Labour Corps were killed when their camp received a direct hit during an air raid. Quite some gunfire at night. At the Poeper a Chinese camp is hit by shellfire. Several yellow men are killed. From the diary of local priest, Father van Walleghem …
Chinese Labour Corps Remembered at the Cenotaph for the First Time.
FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER wreaths were laid at the Cenotaph in Whitehall in memory of the Chinese labourers who came to support the Allied war effort in the First World War. The act comes amid growing momentum to activities, including the Ensuring We Remember Campaign, organised both inside and outside of the Chinese community …
Screening of the film Forgotten Faces of the Great War: The Chinese Labour Corps.
01 November, 2017 at 2pm (till 4pm). 152/3 Cayley Room, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW As part of a two-year project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund to commemorate the Chinese Labour Corps (CLC), The Meridian Society has made a film of oral histories with descendants of Chinese labourers and their …
Exhibition: A Good Reputation Endures Forever: The Chinese Labour Corps on the Western Front
7 April 2017 – 24 September 2017 Durham University’s Oriental Museum, Elvet Hill, Durham, DH1 3TH We have been working very closely with Durham University’s Oriental Museum since late 2014 to make this exhibition perhaps the most important exhibition there has ever been on the Chinese Labour Corps. We’re currently working on publicity, the information below …
Lunchtime recital: Pagoda Youth Orchestra Perform the Last Post
Southbank Centre, London. Saturday 16th Deember, 2016 at 1:00pm Central Bar Foyer, Level 2, Royal Festival Hall Free of charge Part of China Changing Hear music from the oldest and largest Chinese youth orchestra in Europe who perform innovative music fusions with folk songs, reggae and hip-hop involved. The Pagoda Chinese Youth Orchestra (PCYO) was …
Campaign Chair to speak on ‘Missionaries and the Chinese Labour Corps”.
Steve Lau, Chair of the Ensuring We Rememeber Campaign, will be presenting a short paper at the forthcoming conference, Faith and First World War Conference, on the subject of Missionaries and the Chinese Labour Corps. The Conference is being held in Glasgow over two days, 21-22 July 2016, and is free to attend. (Mr Lau …
Chair of Campaign to speak at Hidden Histories Conference.
Steve Lau, Chair of the Ensuring We Rememeber Campaign, will be speaking at the forthcoming conference, Beyond the Western Front – The Global First World War Conference, on the subject of the link between the First World War and the Founding of the Chinese Communist Party. The Conference is being held in Nottingham over two …
China and the Great War: A symposium.
A must for anyone interested in the birth of modern China, the Chinese Labour Corps and the profound legacy of the Great War. Don’t miss this one if you can possibly help it. CHINA AND THE GREAT WAR: A SYMPOSIUM a panel of leading international scholars, archivists, and community activists will address the ways in which …
SACU 50th Anniversary Celebrations
Practitioners Panel 2 at SACU’s 50th Anniversary Celebrations: Understanding China – the whats, the whys and the hows Speakers (Left to Right): Graham Perry, former SACU vice chair; Steve Lau, Chair, Ensuring We Remember Campaign;Prof. Jude Howell, LSE; Prof. Kerry Brown, University of Sydney; Glyn Ford, former Labour MEP; Dr. Sam Beatson (Chair), Lau China …
Asia House Event: From Peking to Paris: China and the First World War
Tuesday, 3 February 2015 from 18:30 to 20:00 (GMT) Asia House 63 New Cavendish St W1G 7LP London United Kingdom Tickets £10, concessions £8, members £6. During the First World War, 95,000 Chinese farm labourers volunteered to leave their remote villages and work for Britain. They were labelled “the forgotten of the forgotten”, as their …
Memorial Service, Anfield Cemetery
Steve Lau, Chair of the Ensuring We Remember Campaign, will join local Chinese community representatives at a memorial service at Anfield Cemetery next Sunday, where five members of the Chinese Labour Corps are buried. We are grateful to the organisers for the invitation.
Pagoda Arts: Last Post for the Chinese Labour Corps
Try and make this special event. It promises to be both moving and inspirational.
Lecture: World War 1 and China: the Chinese Labour Corps in France
24 September 2014, 1-2pm The Kanaris Theatre Manchester Museum Dr. Jenny Clegg Free to attend and there is no need to book. Dr. Jenny Clegg is a Senior Lecturer at the University for Central Lancashire and her specialist research mainly focuses on China’s development and it’s implications for the world order. 2014 marks the 100th …
Lord and Lady Bates pay respects at the Chinese cemetery in Noyelles
Lord and Lady Bates stopped at the chinese cemetery at Noyelles-sur-mer where 842 Chinese Labour Corps volunteers are buried. The cemetery is adjacent to the site that once had the largest Chinese hospital in the world, and certainly the best treatment available in any Chinese hospital in the world. The great care of the doctors …