{"id":2777,"date":"2017-10-10T20:51:13","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T19:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/?p=2777"},"modified":"2017-10-10T20:51:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T19:51:30","slug":"talk-and-oral-history-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/?p=2777","title":{"rendered":"Talk and Oral History Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"summary\">Parliament and World War One: The forgotten Chinese Labourers of World War One<br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/o\/uk-parliament-outreach-and-engagement-service-5411590811\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UK Parliament Outreach and Engagement Service<br \/>\n<\/a>Tuesday, 7 November 2017 from 19:00 to 20:30 (GMT), Portcullis House, Parliament, London.<\/p>\n<p>In an entertaining and informative talk Frances Wood, author of <em>Betrayed Ally: China and the Great War<\/em> and former curator of Chinese Collections at the British Library, will outline the historical background to the CLC story, with insights into the political manoeuvres and debates in Parliament. Her talk will be followed by an oral history film <em>Forgotten Faces of the Great War: The Chinese Labour Corps,<\/em>\u00a0presented by Peng Wenlan, documentary filmmaker and director of The Meridian Society&#8217;s two-year project commemorating the CLC and funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.<\/p>\n<p>The event will be hosted by Lord Wallace of Saltaire a member of the government\u2019s Advisory Board for the Commemoration of World War One . There will be a Q&amp;A after the screening.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/parliament-and-world-war-one-the-forgotten-chinese-labourers-of-world-war-one-tickets-38037874306\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ticket reservation.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parliament and World War One: The forgotten Chinese Labourers of World War One UK Parliament Outreach and Engagement Service Tuesday, 7 November 2017 from 19:00 to 20:30 (GMT), Portcullis House, Parliament, London. In an entertaining and informative talk Frances Wood, author of Betrayed Ally: China and the Great War and former curator of Chinese Collections &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"moree\"><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/?p=2777\">Read more <i class=\"fa fa-arrow-circle-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clc-related-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2778,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777\/revisions\/2778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}