Dear all
As part of a series of events to recognise the ways in which Chinese communities contribute to Western festivals and commemorations, on Monday 11th November (Remembrance Day in the UK) we are holding an online event from 4pm-5:30pm (GMT) to consider the contributions of the Chinese Labour Corps and the different generations of Chinese communities participating in the first and second World War. Please join us if you can.
“Souls Left Behind: Remembering Chinese Contributions to UK and US War Efforts”
Monday 11 November 2024, 4pm – 5.30pm
This is a sinoLEEDS event, a partnership between Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing and Sinoist Books, with support from Arts Council England.
We’re delighted to be joined online by three speakers – Fan Wu, John De Lucy and Professor Gregory Lee, to talk about Fan’s novel, Souls Left Behind (translated by Honey Watson and published by Sinoist Books) and how it pays tribute to the 140,000 men recruited from China by Allied forces during the First World War. We will also hear an introduction by John de Lucy to a photographic archive of the Chinese Labour Corps, and finally explore with Prof Lee how ideological perspectives differed between first- and second-generation members of the UK Chinese community and how this played out in their participation in the Second World War.
Please sign up here for access to the event – an online link will be sent shortly beforehand.
Very best
Frances Weightman <f.weightman@leeds.ac.uk>, Sarah Dodd, and Xunnan Li
The Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing
利兹大学当代华语文学研究中心
http://writingchinese.leeds.ac.uk