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During World War I, about 140,000 Chinese men were conscripted to serve as frontline laborers in the United Kingdom and France. This was the "Chinese Labor Brigade" in history. They were responsible for carrying goods, digging trenches, and repairing machines on the battlefield. They did the most painful and tiring jobs. Some of them were attacked by enemy troops and died in foreign lands. The Chinese Labor Brigade provided a buffer and assistance to the British and French troops in their frontline operations. However, after the war, due to various reasons, they became silent and forgotten by history. Nearly a hundred years later, in 2014, British musician Clive Harvey heard the story of the Chinese Labor Brigades. He noticed that there were nearly 60,000 monuments to the First World War across Europe at that time, but none of them mentioned the Chinese. Harvey's "Yang's War" takes "Yang", a man from Shandong, China, as the main story line and tells the story of the joys and sorrows of ordinary people in a foreign land who have been manipulated by history and fate...