Seminar: "Chinese Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War"
Activity Within the framework of the 70th anniversary of the end of the Spanish Civil War, this seminar approaches the unknown participation of Chinese brigadiers in defence of the Second Republic of Spain. The Taiwanese marriage made up of Ni Hwei-ru and Len Y. Tsou will explain what made them investigate the issue and what its results have been.
Organizer Casa Asia and the Institute Cervantes of Beijing.
Starts on 15/12/2009
Ends on 17/12/2009
Venue 15th of December, from 7.30pm to 9pm.
Casa Asia Headquarters
Tagore Auditorium
Av. Diagonal, 373
Barcelona
17th of December 2009, from 6.30pm to 8.30pm.
Biblioteca Marcel·lí Domingo
c/ Mercè, 6
TortosaPrice Free admission with limited capacity.
Speaker Ni Hwei-ru and Len Y. Tsou, authors of the book 橄榄桂冠的召唤?参加西班牙内战的中国人 (The call of Spain: The Chinese volunteers in the Spanish Civil War).
Presentation in Barcelona hosted by Rafael Bueno, Director of Politics and Society of Casa Asia.
Presentation in Tortosa hosted by Joan Caballol, Councillor of Culture of the Tortosa City Council.Additional information Ni Hwei-ru and Len Y. Tsou, Taiwanese marriage resident in the United States were impressed with the idealism that International Brigadiers showed in the documentary The Good Fight: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War (1984). They wanted to know more about those 40.000 international volunteers and they began to research.
A photograph of a Chinese soldier in front of the Hospital of Benicássim was the one that would lead them to discover the unknown participation of Chinese brigadiers in defence of the Second Republic of Spain. They captured the results of their ten years of investigation in the book published in Chinese, The call of Spain: The Chinese volunteers in the Spanish Civil War (2001). A book that will be translated into Spanish and that manages to reconstruct the life of 13 Chinese brigadiers of the more than 100 that were calculated.