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SUMMARY:World War 1 and China: the Chinese Labour Corps in France 
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DESCRIPTION:1-2pm. \n2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the beginning of
  World War One\, a war which significantly reshaped the world in the 20t
 h century.  China’s involvement\, and the profound impact this was to ha
 ve in the subsequent unfolding of its history of revolution and war\, is
  one\, however\, that receives little attention in the West. This lectur
 e aims to explore this wartime encounter between China and the West\, fo
 cusing on the much neglected part played by Chinese Labour Corps at the 
 Western front. Recruited by the British and French Armies to help allevi
 ate acute shortages in manpower\, this workforce numbered some 140\,000 
 men by the time of the Armistice of 1918. What were the circumstances wh
 ich brought these workers to France? And what of their experiences in a 
 foreign land and the knowledge of the West that they brought back when t
 hey were repatriated? What influences did these have in the shaping of C
 hina’s emerging national consciousness\, and its search for a distinctiv
 e modernity?\n\nDr. Jenny Clegg is a Senior Lecturer at the University f
 or Central Lancashire and her specialist research mainly focuses on Chin
 a's development and its implications for the world order.  \n
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LOCATION:Manchester Museum\, Oxford Road\, Manchester\, Phone: 0161-27526
 48\, Email: museum@manchester.ac.uk
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