Tag: Spanish flu

China and the Great War

Feb 27, 2016

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lauraspinney

in History of science or medicine, Pale Rider

IMPERIAL War Museum, London, 4 May 2016. China’s participation in the First World War was a defining moment in modern Chinese and world history and the beginning of China’s journey toward internationalisation. The aim of this symposium was to extend the dimensions of our collective memory of the war – and the ensuing ‘flu pandemic…
On shared memories

Jan 22, 2016

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by

lauraspinney

in History, History of science or medicine, Journalism, Neuroscience

WHAT were the greatest human catastrophes of the 20th century? When asked this question, most people answer the Second World War, followed by the First World War. The former killed around 50 million people, the latter 17 million. But there was another catastrophe that dwarfed both of these, that is rarely mentioned. The influenza pandemic…