I’m afraid I’ve missed the 7th April launch date for the Chinese Labour Corps Memorial Campaign exhibition but it runs until 24th September 2017. Nearly 100,000 Chinese men served on the European battlefields of World War I doing the dirtiest and most dangerous jobs, clearing mines and dead bodies, and transporting explosives for the allied […]
The Chinese Labour Corps memorial campaign. Anna Chen’s South China Morning Post column on the forgotten men who served in the Europe theatre of was in World War 1 doing most of the dirtiest work. Thousands died.
Chinese Labour Corps, the forgotten army: my column for the South China Morning Post Read More »
The new £2 coin — such an ugly thing in so many ways. This government glorifies something recognised as a catastrophe, an unprecedented horror where millions of men (lions led by donkeys) died at the Front. World War I wasn’t the war to end all wars (otherwise it would just be “the World War”) but
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