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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.
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- 2014-08-12
- Documentary
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.
Tricks on the Dead: The Story of the Chinese Labour Corps in WWI has its world premiere at the Vancouver International Film Festival this week. (A shorter version airs on...
18 apr 2024 · Zhang Yan, a young Chinese history student who is from the same Shandong villages as the Chinese labourers in 1916, sets out to answer this question and find out what really happened to the...
28 nov 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. Entering a world and history cloaked in politics, confusion and misinformation about the Chinese experience in WWI.
7 ott 2015 · Tricks on the Dead contributes to a more holistic and inclusive historical point of view as well as a more globally collaborative film effort. Tricks on the Dead: The Story of the Chinese Labour Corps in WWI won the Must-see BC Audience Award at VIFF 2015 and will air on OMNI Television in Vancouver and CCTV-10 in China in the near ...
