China and the Chinese, 1920s

[@Citizen_X.]

Though this video is relatively new in the history of humanity, it's so fascinating to see how people in the old days overcame unimaginable difficulties in life and yet built and created such great things that we can still admire. I am talking about all humans and cultures, not only Chinese.

[@0o151]

China better than japan

[@maxmuller8633]

@@XSCAPE-eg2dl Racists 🤦‍♂️

[@elena16350]

Xiao Hei. we are all equal , unless we are Americans, where all we can destroy is the best WE can do.

[@demonhunter635]

Lawrence Orr Tibet, Xinjiang, Taiwan, and Hong Kong are under threat of Chinese imperialism.

[@demonhunter635]

M9 Are you kiddingv

[@sunilshrestha4063]

I am from Nepal. I love china so much. Chinese are very hard working and intellectual. They devloped their country in very short term because of their hard working.China is our best neighbouring country.I've a great salute to china & Chinese people.

[@Supernaltooth]

sunil shrestha Nepal China friendship

[@haoruchen4216]

no your frigid anglo island will be a wasteland of shxthole sooner

[@Number1PC]

Old Windsor. I don’t know who you are and I don’t care. I want you to remember there is a lot of Chinese in the world. Be careful of what you are saying.

[@9grand]

@Old Windsor .Not sure China is going to collapse to a shithole. But with your hateful comment , no doubt you are a shit!

[@xwah5016]

U guys from Nepal are also very hard working!

[@bethroesch2156]

I love these old films. It's one thing to read about the past, it's incredible to SEE it.

[@NightcorEDM]

China was at a heavy loss with war and century of humiliation but Chinese people are strong! And as a result of this they can build a strong nation. Learn from China!

[@chandangupta1186]

Thank you I'm from India

[@sup3rkangkong]

@ as opposed to an identity espousing 'freedom and democracy and human rights' while bombing poor third world nations. why is the us still in afghanistan, iraq, and syria what did you and your nato buddies do to libya are they currently free and democratic?

[@naren-ig5mj]

@ Oblivion is bliss.

[@taiwanguomindang]

Yes, we established the Republic of China, and he is us.

[@sunilkumarshrestha6550]

China nd Chinese people are great.......u are awesome........We are so proud to u........greeting nd great love from Nepal🇳🇵🤝🇨🇳

[@carterzhang2977]

Chinese people love Nepal! 🇨🇳 ❤️🇳🇵

[@TheYyblessing]

🤗

[@Neyobe]

❤️

[@taiwanguomindang]

No, no, no flag.

[@BrianHailey]

Fascinating. After living in present-day China, it is fascinating to see pre-modern glimpses.

[@ailinyu6617]

My grandparents were born during that era😉it's almost a hundred years by now, grandma is turning 98this year.

[@kennyz5726]

who came here on 2020?

[@wisdomwr6509]

I am. 😃

[@seanr1899]

Ya, ive been hooked on these old videos for a few days now. Makes me wonder about how many great videos are lost to time

[@gabrielpianolad2462]

@@seanr1899 Yeah for sure!

[@gavinoctavien1400]

ken chao imagine coming here in 2120?

[@rainoa5558]

@@gavinoctavien1400 sad no chance

[@currenteventsandhistory1364]

Great, I love this channel so much. 👍👍👍

[@ricadrew]

Amazing, absolutely amazing!!! Thank you so much for posting this!!

[@shawaizhassan6253]

wow china made a lot of progress just in 50 to 60 years and amazed the world.....chinese are very hard working and passionate.....they are true patriots and always try to rely on their own resources such a hard working nation really deserve next super power status....long live china..... Love from Pakistan....

[@martin840909]

Actually China now is worse than China 100 years ago.

[@supermum3060]

Thank you very much for this great video, it makes me know how was China in 1920 because my father was just born in that era.

[@guinnessharvey4476]

This is truly remarkable footage from a remarkable country and its people. Much love to China from Ireland

[@arynnehempstock1108]

Awesome footage; thank you so much!!

[@rsb2699]

"Foreign influence has yet reached this far inland" followed by a young man smoking opium.

[@MrBlaxjax]

That's a ridiculous statement. Or do you actually believe that Chinese people are weak enough to smoke opium at a foreigner's suggestion? Opium has been grown by Chinese people in China and smoked by Chinese people in China for centuries. Anyway, blaming foreigners for the Chinese opium habit is a bit like Americans blaming the Mexicans for the American Cocaine habit. Silly. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_opium_in_China

[@constantinechou]

wow, start a socalled opium war against China to export opium to China and now you are saying it was Chinese habits. Well, stupid or shameless?

[@MrBlaxjax]

The habit of taking opium wasn't restricted to China. It wasn't a Chinese habit, it was a worldwide thing. Opium was exported throughout the British Empire, including to the UK. Opium wasn't invented by the British in 1839 to be suddenly foisted upon the hapless Chinese. That's ridiculous. It has been imported and also grown in China for centuries, and for most of that time perfectly legally. It is not shameless to say this, and it's not stupid either. Because of the historical use of opium in China, it just isn't historically correct to say that this guy in the video is smoking opium because of foreign influence. Any more than a photo of a modern man in Shanghai smoking tobacco might be evidence of nefarious foreign influence.

[@Epck]

@待化的冰 he never said anything about that...he said chinese grown opium was used before the opium war...and yes I think the british took advantage of China and it was right to ban it

[@constantinechou]

@What' Ev Ok, let's put it this way. Now, China all in a sudden decides to export Cocaine to the UK which the UK gov will definitely refuse. And then China decided to send troops to force the trade. How does it sound? That's exactly what imperial britain did. Being not that advanced is not an excuse for your country to start a disgusting Opium War against an Asian country. Your mindset is sick and disgusting.

[@NickBoots4]

this channel is awesome-its like VICE a hundred years ago

[@001mhu]

vice is heavily biased against china - at least from the content they're putting out in recent years. everything else were decent though.

[@vnchome3523]

Wow..i am watching all these after 100 years....amazing...

[@daniellee6859]

It's very treasurable video ! Great!

[@edamame9198]

Thank you for the great videos! It's amazing to see these old days(around a hundred years ago) in the videos.

[@athensmajnoo3661]

Looks like all the characters of Pearl Buck's novel 'The Good Earth ' have come to life!! Anyways the novel gives such a vivid picture of China of those times, that I had seen all these scenes in my mind while reading it!!

[@goognamgoognw6637]

thanks for the book suggestion.

[@gheffz]

Amazing! What got me was the cars clearly in use, as well.

[@goognamgoognw6637]

Amazing video. A world treasure. I stood in front of the Chien Men gate just a couple years ago, almost at the same vantage point. Comparing the 1920 portique in the video to my picture taken almost a century later, I can confirm that except for having been repainted and refinished, the parts are exactly identical which made me feel good. And there are four stone sculpted lions at the base of the poles. Amazingly I can see them in the video. although you would have to know what to look for. Try to look for whitish forms at the base of the poles. But i see some differences in the shape of the lions. Maybe the originals did not survive.

[@iratepirate3896]

They were probably destroyed in the Cultural Revolution.

[@goognamgoognw6637]

@@iratepirate3896 I doubt that they were intentionally broken although it's possible. Maybe a truck or some vehicle damaged one of them and they replaced the lot. Over a century a lot of things can happen.

[@History_of_China]

Fascinating contrast between the Chinese society and Western influences in Tientsin (Tianjin) and Hong kong

[@囧囧囧-w6t]

0:40 The original coffin dance

[@xiaoheli-n1j]

这应该是慈禧太后出殡？

[@tdzheng]

@Microglia1 well bear in mind that this is 1920, 9 years after the fall of qing dynasty. there is a saying goes in china's history, "the grandfather builds the empire, the father squanders the empire, the son loses the empire." photography became prevalent in china near it's end of the dynasty, and most shows it's poverty due to opium, and civil wars, do remember that qing dynasty is already on it's deathbed after 1870+ christian influenced taiping rebellion with a 70million death toll.

[@bongbong4588]

Great 1920's Chinese footage. Notice how the Chinese men were not wearing PIG TAILS anymore. That was in the Qing Dynasty era-1600's-1912. Plus You see still many rickshaw carts. Most Chinese still did not have cars. Thanks for the upload.

[@zhaomengyu028]

but men still wearing ma gua， cheongsam，manchurian cloth identity.

[@sgcl10658]

@@zhaomengyu028 Ppl still wore those in the Republican era minus the pig tail.

[@martin840909]

Pig tails is shame of China history, it is Chinese colony history by Manchurian.

[@bielcarey1053]

By 2100 people will also look at us and be like "Oh they're all dead or old" Time flies

[@Leo-rl7qi]

I was burn in 2010 in 2100 I Will have 100 Years in 2120 i Will be dead...

[@princessdewi4626]

@@Leo-rl7qi if you are born in 2010, your age in the year 2120 should be 110 years old!

[@Leo-rl7qi]

@@princessdewi4626 why did You respond a 4 months comment

[@Leo-rl7qi]

@@princessdewi4626 why

[@Leo-rl7qi]

@@princessdewi4626 why You did that.

[@xinzang]

great vintage footage

[@firstmainmail1]

Thanks so much for sharing.

[@stevenkok1926]

Beautiful Recollection.

[@corvuscrow5485]

Fascinating. Well done.

[@barrycohen311]

Thank you for no fake sounds!!!

[@Seanoakwolf]

Priceless thx for sharing

[@oscarmartinsafonsodepaiva3320]

A great video, a true document of an era. I want to give a soundtrack suggestion: "Ryuichi Sakamoto Music from The Last Emperor".

[@rafaelpetinesii7123]

Wow....amazingly mgnificient great filmed

[@stevenbaer5999]

China became one of the last ancient civilization to rule. They actually lost a great battle during the Boxer's Rebellion. Empress Dowager Cixi died in 1908 and a new emperor who actually the last emperor of China name is Henry Pu yi. The glory of old China actually died out and a pro Western way and communist party came into being. China struggle so much, starvation, chaos, free thinking, etc. When people actually think about China they always seem to think about the old ways of China?

[@enthalpiaentropia7804]

A true and fascinating civilization.....

[@jorryzhu4615]

new video of this civilisation: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q3fGYmt9rLyarpI Now 1080P is available.

[@enthalpiaentropia7804]

@@jorryzhu4615 Thanks for your kind information... Dan from Paris-France

[@Augydoggie]

Love historical videos.. just makes it more clear that the past really happened, you know?

[@Kianglekable]

These are quite eerie scenes, most of them devoid of people in and bustling marketplaces, with the exception of Shanghai, Canton and Hong Kong

[@kesharkhadkapunwar2029]

Miracle of science!! I am watching 1920's events in 2020. What a miracle!! 👏🌹🙏 🇳🇵Love from Nepal !!!

[@aswartboom]

A glimpse of Hong Kong, peak tram and the then flower street, Wynham Street in Central 4.58 to 5.30

[@katyperrytoursavrillavigne8281]

i'm from japan and i'm still in japan not in da usa but china looks better then were we live in japan

[@xichen7077]

emmm

[@lookingfortruth1930]

KatyPerryTours AvrilLavigneTours fuck ur sushi moshi murderers

[@soleaguirre100]

Very interesting!

[@光世-t3u]

保存的真好

[@412StepUp]

History is not boring. It’s just boring in the public education classrooms.

[@ulpain]

Thanks for sharing! I am from Taiwan and ethnic Chinese(most of Taiwanese are). While many of Taiwanese don't think nowaday Taiwan is part of China, most can agree we share the same culture with mainland Chinese(a few radical don't agree),

[@xser4321]

there is no sound

[@ModernChineseCulturalStudies]

Compare with the domestically produced representations of China ca 1920s-1940s on the Chinese Film Classics playlist of the Modern Chinese Cultural Studies channel. Since the film industry was then based in Shanghai, that's the city you'll see most.

[@davidxuling]

wonderfull ty for sharing learn alot from it

[@jebsievers]

Wow. Thanks for sharing.

[@brothermalcolm]

How many of these sites can we still visit today?

[@Hostile2430]

India and China looked so identical. 100 years later China has developed so much and is so much advanced than India

[@jake9854]

it's funny india do exactly what china do, when china make a aircraft carrier, india also tried to make one XD

[@周骏-d2n]

china develop in the last 30 years in fact,in 1980s ,the life is not much different from that of the year 1920

[@XXsardarXX]

The caption at 7.59 says...'Foreign influence has not yet reached this land'...definitely not he case today, with Starbucks. KFC and McDonalds on every street corner.

[@TheEmagicmtman]

Though like looking like the proverbial needle in a haystack, I was looking for my old friend James Dolsen (1883-1987) who was living in Beijing and Shanghai during the 1920’s. (I probably wouldn’t recognizing him if he passed before the camera, since he was in his late 30’s when he lived in China, and was in his 80’s and 90’s when I knew him!) Incidentally, he met Mao at that time, and I believed him, since he never lied or exaggerated (although he did not put this meeting in his autobiography).

[@slavish_superiority]

don't believe him...a foreigner met Mao？It's impossible. in 1920s，Mao was secret underground CCP member，and only twice short term trips to Shanghai temporarily，most of time stay at Guangzhou，Hunan，and Jiangxi

[@TheEmagicmtman]

@@slavish_superiority James Dolsen died in 1986 (at age 103). In the 1920’s he attended the “Higher Party School” in Moscow and then was sent by the International to China. He wrote an autobiography, “Bucking the Ruling Class,” in the late 1970’s or early 1980’s. Much earlier, in the early 1930’s, he wrote a modest book on China. Earlier, he was present as a delegate from California at the founding of the U.S. Communist Party in Chicago in 1919. (Even earlier, in the first decade of the 20th Century, he was a member of the I.W.W. out West!) He dedicated his whole life to the working class as a member of the U.S. Communist Party and was imprisoned during the McCarthy Period of the late 1940’s and 1950’s. He did not write anything about his meeting with Mao in his autobiography (but could have feared, even in his 80’s, that this could lead to legal problems. He did specifically describe his meeting with Mao to us (a group of his students who he taught the fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism to during 1965 and 1966). He never married and was known as “The Red Monk!” Late one night, in 1966, I was taking a subway home in Philadelphia when I happened to meet him. He had a bag of leaflets and was just returning from distributing them after a concert. This was in a crime-infested area, and he was in his 80’s. I feared he might be mugged, so accompanied him the rest of the way home!) Finally, independently, by reading a (non-political) memoir, written in the 1930’s or 1940’s, of someone who lived in Shanghai in the 1920’s and early 1930’s, she mentioned that he was part of the w patriot community there at that time (and had a rather sour impression of him)! Somehow, I believe (want to believe?) “Jimmy” Dolsen’s account of his meeting with Mao. Dolsen was a remarkable man. Of course without Mao and his correct assessment of the situation, the Revolution’s success in China would have been more difficult. Dolsen labored in the “Vineyards of Obscurity,” but his life and work was also remarkable. Thanks for your comments and feedback.

[@slavish_superiority]

@@TheEmagicmtman I'm sorry, he is like Norman Bethune, Edgar Snow and other Western CP members ，only harms the Chinese people, but does not help. Communism is a cancer of human civilization. It destroys Chinese culture and helps a large number of CCP tyrants and butchers like Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai.... Chinese people have nothing but disgust for such people. Thanks McCarthyism for saving a lot of people devastated by communism.

[@shibilv]

Nice video.... thank you .

[@vincentpoisson7427]

那时候没办法收录声音吗？

[@haoruchen4216]

fantanstic record of an true civilization

[@whatsup7184]

LOLOLOL...Glad Kodak got this precious doc film. I can tell the municipal of Peking city established by Qing Dynasty were very orderly planed. And both Tientsin and Peking city were so clean without any rubbish, unlike HK. I saw the precious document of a wealthy funeral, the Japanese woman in HK, the beggars and the citizen. Honestly, it would be much fun if we could go back to 1920 peaceful time without WWII and revolution wreckage. Impressive enough. And thanks for uploading this precious historical film.

[@周骏-d2n]

beijing was a capital of Yuan(mongarian dynasty),than destroyed and rebuilt by Ming dynasty ,then Qing

[@avagrego3195]

Thank you

[@kettlycharles4312]

am from the Caribbean & I truly agreed with you. China is doing what the Neanderthals should have done 80 + years ago in many poor country. That will strike a war, because who ever controls Afrika controls rule the world. China is doing a great job in Afrika as well as in the Caribbean.

[@Mahasattva27]

China is making africa her bitch, dummy.

[@brothermalcolm]

How there’s not a single shred of these historical monuments and customs left in Peking today completely baffles and saddens me.

[@ciel222]

DAMN these were really very very bad , dark,and harsh times. CHINA CAME A VERY LONG WAY.

[@janineskywalker527]

Was Pu yi entombed there? J.

[@wackywong]

4:58 Hong Kong "skyline". A lot has changed!

[@seanwang261]

Mark，very interest video

[@Cpt.Zenobia]

The manual Rickshaw is too dehumanizing to watch. also it must have been backbreaking. The horrors of feudalism are forgotten today.

[@johnnyhuang3973]

It was one of the world's top economic regions and today is as well!

[@tqri9795]

China has witnessed a dramatic change in the past 100 years. I believe this country and their people will be better and better in the future.

[@alect5953]

Uhhhhh....

[@jorryzhu4615]

new video of this civilisation: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q3fGYmt9rLyarpI Now 1080P is available.

[@senmafugu]

i hope this documentary last for another century...

[@christopher3386]

Why no sound! Why no sound!

[@KRISHNA-YuKhan]

it’s 1909

[@arjanterveen9534]

Amazing picture; as alway's you see the hard labour conditions of the chinee's,and civalisation; architect ,art etc many novals come to live..beathiful colerfull people

[@DavidisDawei]

7:10 How this has changed. China's infrastructure is better than the USA's now

[@goognamgoognw6637]

That's not difficult. All western countries have better infrastructure than the USA. The USA made the wrong decision in the 1920 that automobiles were going to be the only transportation. They also don't know how to build houses today. They use wood sticks, a stapler gun, plastic film and plaster boards to build $0.5M houses (worth $20k true value) with the same internal structure as a barn for animal livestock.

[@marcduchamp5512]

Now work on the social programs

[@nv_chino]

goognam goognws the government is fucked up wow

[@Mahasattva27]

@@goognamgoognw6637 wow, you sound childish.

[@Mahasattva27]

When a country first becomes developed it's infrastructure is new, so naturally better. Nothing unusual in that. You don't go tearing down functional infrastructure just to keep up with the Jones's. That would be wasteful. When the time comes to renew it, America's will be new and better. Your's is a stupid observation.

[@HannahBelleHealing]

my grandad was there some where.. police inspector

[@tseringphuntsog6647]

Nice video.

[@heckmacbuff]

Chairman Mao's lot demolished the city wall (30 miles long) to build the subway underneath it. Nice one! Chinese people will eventually wake up to what they are doing to their own heritage.

[@goosecouple]

heckmacbuff Most real Chinese people have been killed. The remaining people are Communists.

[@lookingfortruth1930]

goosecouple and most of them ugly

[@goognamgoognw6637]

Parts of the city walls still stand, notably the Chien men gate. I know because i stood there.

[@ycformosa]

Wrong! Japan did not renounced all teritorial rights to Taiwan. Check the facts would you? Treaty San francisco

[@7.62fullmetal9]

2:02 WHAT ??? no traffic management in place, no hazard signs, no fluro vests?? how the hell did they end up populating to 1.3 billion then ?

[@terrywu2292]

7.62 full metal they master the Art of Baby Making!!!!

[@maggiebugden9463]

Interesting.thank s

[@pramodkumar-yy1sv]

Anyway its the visual of longyears back its also amazing to see that China was so developed even then

[@toshinokyokosenpai9239]

Say what you like about China's goverment but people and culture are awsome (and chinese grills beautiful ♥️)

[@ruxer9189]

I wish I can go to China but it’s corona I love China 🇨🇳 From dubai

[@jorryzhu4615]

new video of this civilisation: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q3fGYmt9rLyarpI Now 1080P is available.

[@Mayangone]

Those must have been some of the years in the century of humiliation. Some were able to struggle out of the country then slaved themselves in new lands, where now their grandchildren were able to enjoy the fruits of their labor. Both my grandfathers toiled in foreign lands giving us the head-starts.

[@lipkeng]

@tdzheng you may do a quick google. Qing lost Taiwan to Japanese in the First Sino Japanese War in 1895 and it was only in 1952 that the Japanese officially renounced all teritorial rights to Taiwan.

[@sgcl10658]

Wrong, do the research again. ROK took the control of Taiwain right after WW2 on the behalf of WW2 Allied. Japan gave all its territories to the Allied and it was up to the Allied decided what to do what these territories, not up to Japan's decision. The Allied mostly agreed to give back those territories to their previous owners before Japan invaded: Tawain back to China, Hong Kong back to Britain, Vietnam back to France, Korea as independent which later caused the Korean war. Google San Francisco Treaty.

[@Linkage1992]

2:12 No Western influences? lol

[@_Forsaker]

this is1909's China,not 1920

[@jaivekkanabar6865]

How you can say that

[@Владислав-д9с4к]

Это фейк или реальное видео? тогда камеры уже были чтоль?

[@shmo-mj4bn]

现在100年后了 有没有人在去视频里的拍摄地点重新拍一次

[@wanlispace]

好多人都不知道这个视频

[@Hmyt-yucca]

sincerely hope that the Chinese people have comprehensive understanding of their history and work to prevent its recurrent

[@李兴-v1m]

It was the time when my grandparents left China to Cambodia.

[@gisymtroysh8436]

So where are you now? Still in Cambodia?

[@gisymtroysh8436]

Your ID is a Chinese name, you can speak Chinese, aren't you?

[@guinnessharvey4476]

The Chinese were about to go through a pretty unsettling period after this. Good to see them back on top:) giving the Americans and Europeans a run for their ill gotten money:)

[@tdzheng]

@lipkeng no, taiwan was under china for a long time. was first an autonomous region inhabited by both chinese and the local aboriginals, later occupied by the dutch, and got kicked out by the fallen ming dynasty loyalists pirates, and later occupied by the qing dynasty. the rest is what is now recorded western history of the world. taiwan was known by china since han dynasty and three kingdoms, but provided no economic significance until 14-16th century.

[@iratepirate3896]

This period was a time of absolute chaos. No wonder they prefer an authoritarian communist dictatorship to the warlords.

[@Yorosero]

This was China in decline.

[@TheGuywithnolife]

and this is just 100 years ago?

[@imissyou0423]

The more Population a country have, The more poverty will a country be, for the resources are scares and limited. Labors are also a kind of resources, it becoming cheaper and cheaper while the supply of labor in the market is increasing.

[@imissyou0423]

Poverty comes from Population, wealth comes from resources and technology.

[@理想永不褪色]

2:55 is UFO in the sky?

[@youreshouldoflearntgrammer8277]

Yes!

[@omuffin1854]

It's most likely kite or just old film stain

[@unboxingaddict]

thats nice, very rare video...

[@disone8713]

youtube一个神奇的国度，我活一辈子国内从来没看过

[@jaylove9208]

中国人的可悲，上海不是中国的领土

[@papercrease7308]

@@jaylove9208 智障

[@katherinechiu3683]

back in the time that, hong kong is really beautiful

[@misssincere5762]

Kodak been around for that long

[@fischman26-China]

Well, at least I have traveled to Hong Kong and Canton. Not much is left of old China.