Free Public Talk on China: World War 1 and China
| Dates: | 24 September 2014 |
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| Times: | All day |
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| What is it: | Lecture |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Adults, Alumni, Current University students, General public |
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| Speaker: | Jenny Clegg |
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2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War One, a war which significantly reshaped the world in the 20th century. This talk aims to explore this wartime encounter between China and the West, focusing on the much neglected part played by Chinese Labour Corps at the Western front. What were the circumstances which 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 they were repatriated? What influences did these have in the shaping of China’s emerging national consciousness, and its search for a distinctive modernity?
Speaker
Jenny Clegg
Organisation: University of Central Lancashire
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