SACU Executive Committee Meeting
St Columba's Church of Scotland Pont Street, London, United KingdomSACU Executive Committee and the George Hogg Co-operative Education Fund have meetings at St Columba's on Saturday 17th November. The archives Group will meet at a later date.
The Chinese Labour Corps: World War One’s Hidden History
Knowledge Centre, The British Library 96 Euston Road, London, United KingdomThis commemoration of the Chinese Labour Corps is organised by our partner organisation The Meridian Society and co-hosted by The British Library. On 11 November 1918 streets throughout Western Europe were filled with jubilant crowds. Armistice had been declared and weary soldiers were at last able to go home. Yet some had to stay behind at the Front - amongst them the Chinese Labour Corps who were needed to clear the land of ordnance and dig up and bury the dead. Almost 140,000 Chinese labourers had been recruited by the British and French armies to fill the void resulting from […]
SACU’s Silk Road Tour: Talk by Walter Fung
Friends Meeting House 6 Mount Street, Manchester, United KingdomWalter Fung, editor of China Eye will talk about his recent visit to China's Western provinces on the SACU Silk Road tour (with slides). The tour included the ancient cities of Guyuan, Yinchuan and Dan Junggar, as well as Xining, Tupan and Urumchi in Xinjiang.
SACU Archives Group Meeting
British Library First Floor Cafe 96 Euston Road, London, United KingdomSACU Archives Group will meet on Sunday 16th December to plan the comprehensive project which will organise, digitise and make SACU's archives more easily available to everyone. There are 4 components: (1) catalogue, preserve and digitise our extensive photograph collection; (2) catalogue, preserve and digitise SACU's organisational documents; (3) catalogue, preserve and digitise the historic material contained in our old website; (4) collect oral histories from SACU members and others who can help us construct a full history of SACU. We are particularly keen to hear from older SACU members about their memories so please get in contact!
SACU Archives Committee Meeting
British Library First Floor Cafe 96 Euston Road, London, United KingdomThe next SACU Archives Committee Meeting will meet to discuss the funding bid for the SACU Archives Project.
Meet the Chilli Bean Paste Clan: An Evening with Yan Ge and Nicky Harman
Guanghwa Bookshop 112 Shaftsbury Avenue, London, United KingdomSet in a fictional town in West China, the novel, The Chilli Bean Paste Clan, is the story of the Duan-Xue family, owners of the lucrative chilli bean paste factory, and their formidable matriarch. As Gran’s 80th birthday approaches, her middle-aged children get together to make preparations. Family secrets are revealed and long-time sibling rivalries flare up with renewed vigour. As Shengqiang struggles unsuccessfully to juggle the demands of his mistress and his wife, the biggest surprises of all come from Gran herself… Join the author Yan Ge and the translator Nicky Harman on the evening, and catch a […]
SACU Council and Programme Group Meetings
St Columba's Church of Scotland Pont Street, London, United KingdomSACU's quarterly Council meeting will be held in the Library of St Columba's Church, 11.30am-3.30pm. The Programme Group will meet immediately afterwards, 3.30pm-5.00pm. Agendas will be sent out in due course.
China and the Korean Nuclear Crisis
Hulme Hall University of Manchester Hall of Residence Oxford Place, Manchester, United KingdomChina and the Korean Nuclear Crisis by SACU Manchester and University of Manchester Politics Society China and North Korea have been described in the past as being as close as ‘lips and teeth’ but in recent decades relations have come under strain over North Korea’s nuclearisation. What role has China played with regard to the Korean nuclear crisis? And what does this tell us about the kind of new superpower China is becoming? Glyn Ford, author of Talking to North Korea (Pluto, 2018) and North Korea on the Brink (Pluto, 2007) will be in conversation with Dr Jenny Clegg, Vice-President […]
Chinese Labour Corps: Exhibition at Chinese Community Centre-Birmingham, 1 February 2019
CCC-B 99 Bradford Street, Birmingham, United KingdomChinese Labour Corps: The Forgotten Men of World War I: Exhibition at the Chinese Community Centre-Birmingham Friday 1 Feb to Friday 8 Feb (not Sunday 3 Feb) The Chinese Community Centre – Birmingham is going to stage the first exhibition in the West Midlands about the Chinese Labour Corps in February 2019, coinciding with Chinese New Year. In November 2018, Britain commemorated the end of World War I with events across the country. One group that has been consistently overlooked is the Chinese Labour Corps (CLC) – volunteers from mainland China who were sent by the Chinese government to support […]
Chinese Labour Corps: Exhibition at Chinese Community Centre-Birmingham, 2 Feb 2019
Chinese Labour Corps: The Forgotten Men of World War I: Exhibition at the Chinese Community Centre-Birmingham Friday 1 Feb to Friday 8 Feb (not Sunday 3 Feb) The Chinese Community Centre – Birmingham is going to stage the first exhibition in the West Midlands about the Chinese Labour Corps in February 2019, coinciding with Chinese New Year. In November 2018, Britain commemorated the end of World War I with events across the country. One group that has been consistently overlooked is the Chinese Labour Corps (CLC) – volunteers from mainland China who were sent by the Chinese government to support […]