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Discovering clues from the diary of Chinese interpreter Gu Xingqing, Zhang Yan travels across three continents to uncover Gu's journey with the British controlled Chinese labourers. Entering a world and history cloaked in politics, confusion and misinformation about the Chinese experience in WWI.
85,000 of this newly formed ‘Chinese Labour Corps’ were secretly transported across Canada in locked CPR trains during the racist Chinese Head Tax period. They were then shipped to Europe where thousands died clearing munitions and the dead on the Western Front.
4 de oct. de 2015 · It tells a story excluded from history books of Chinese men sent to Europe as indentured laborers to dig trenches and bury the dead for the Allied troops during WWI. The shock of the story is in the vast numbers of men it involved, 140,000, and the obscurity that remains around it.
28 de nov. de 2018 · An Epic Film about Chinese Laborers Shipped Across Canada to WW I in Europe. Showtime: November 28, 2018 – 7:00PM. 100 min. Directed by: Jordan Paterson. Starring: Bradley Duffy, Mackenzie Gray, Steve James, Zhang Yan. Screenwriter Jordan Paterson, Natasha Damiano. Cinematography Jordan Paterson, Norm Li, CSC. Not Rated.
Discovering clues from the diary of Chinese interpreter Gu Xingqing, Zhang Yan travels across three continents to uncover Gu's journey with the British controlled Chinese labourers.
What is the English language plot outline for Tricks on the Dead: The Story of the Chinese Labour Corps in WWI (2014)?
Discovering clues from the diary of Chinese interpreter Gu Xingqing, Zhang Yan travels across three continents to uncover Gu's journey with the British controlled Chinese labourers. Entering a world and history cloaked in politics, confusion and misinformation about the Chinese experience in WWI.
