This help me understand China better. I’m from Malaysia. China has traded with Malaysia for 2000 years. In those years, they had been the world’s biggest powers many times. Never once they sent troops to take our land. Admiral Zheng He came to Malacca five times, in gigantic fleets, and a flagship eight times the size of Christopher Columbus’ flagship, Santa Maria. He could have seized Malacca easily, but he did not. In 1511, the Portuguese came. In 1642, the Dutch came. In the 18th century the British came. We were colonised by each, one after another. When China wanted spices from India, they traded with the Indians. When they wanted gems, they traded with the Persian. They didn’t take lands. The only time China expanded beyond their current borders was in Yuan Dynasty, when Genghis and his descendants Ogedei Khan, Guyuk Khan & Kublai Khan concurred China, Mid Asia and Eastern Europe. But Yuan Dynasty, although being based in China, was a part of the Mongolian Empire. Then came the Century of Humiliation. Britain smuggled opium into China to dope the population, a strategy to turn the trade deficit around, after the British could not find enough silver to pay the Qing Dynasty in their tea and porcelain trades. After the opium warehouses were burned down and ports were closed by the Chinese in ordered to curb opium, the British started the Opium War I, which China lost. Hong Kong was forced to be surrendered to the British in a peace talk (Nanjing Treaty). The British owned 90% of the opium market in China, during that time, Queen Victoria was the world’s biggest drug baron. The remaining 10% was owned by American merchants from Boston. Many of Boston’s institutions were built with profit from opium. After 12 years of Nanjing Treaty, the West started getting really really greedy. The British wanted the Qing government: 1. To open the borders of China to allow goods coming in and out freely, and tax free. 2. Make opium legal in China. Insane requests, Qing government said no. The British and French, with supports from the US and Russia from behind, started Opium War II with China, which again, China lost. The Anglo-French military raided the Summer Palace, and threatened to burn down the Imperial Palace, the Qing government was forced to pay with ports, free business zones, 300,000 kilograms of silver and Kowloon was taken. Since then, China’s resources flew out freely through these business zones and ports. In the subsequent amendment to the treaties, Chinese people were sold overseas to serve as labor. In 1900, China suffered attacks by the 8-National Alliance(Japan, Russia, Britain, France, USA, Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary). Innocent Chinese civilians in Peking (Beijing now) were murdered, buildings were destroyed & women were raped. The Imperial Palace was raided, and treasures ended up in museums like the British Museum in London and the Louvre in Paris. In late 1930s China was occupied by the Japanese in WWII. Millions of Chinese died during the occupancy. 300,000 Chinese died in Nanjing Massacre alone. Mao brought China together again from the shambles. There were peace and unity for some time. But Mao’s later reign saw sufferings and deaths from famine and power struggles. Then came Deng Xiao Ping and his infamous “black-cat and white-cat” story. His preference in pragmatism than ideologies has transformed China. This thinking allowed China to evolve all the time to adapt to the actual needs in the country, instead of rigidly bounded to ideologies. It also signified the death of Communism in actually practice in China. The current Socialism+Meritocracy+Market Economy model fits the Chinese like gloves, and it propels the uprise of China. Singapore has a similar model, and has been arguably more successful than Hong Kong, because Hong Kong being gateway to China, was riding on the economic boom in China, while Singapore had no one to gain from. In just 30 years, the CPC have moved 800 millions of people out from poverty. The rate of growth is unprecedented in human history. They have built the biggest mobile network, by far the biggest high speed rail network in the world, and they have become a behemoth in infrastructure. They made a fishing village called Shenzhen into the world’s second largest technological centre after the Silicon Valley. They are growing into a technological power house. It has the most elaborate e-commerce and cashless payment system in the world. They have launched exploration to Mars. The Chinese are living a good life and China has become one of the safest countries in the world. The level of patriotism in the country has reached an unprecedented height. For all of the achievements, the West has nothing good to say about it. China suffers from intense anti-China propagandas from the West. Western Media used the keyword “Communist” to instil fear and hatred towards China. Everything China does is negatively reported. They claimed China used slave labor in making iPhones. The truth was, Apple was the most profitable company in the world, it took most of the profit, leave some to Foxconn (a Taiwanese company) and little to the labor. They claimed China was inhuman with one-child policy. At the same time, they accused China of polluting the earth with its huge population. The fact is the Chinese consume just 30% of energy per capita compared to the US. They claimed China underwent ethnic cleansing in Xinjiang. The fact is China has a policy which priorities ethnic minorities. For a long time, the ethnic minorities were allowed to have two children and the majority Han only allowed one. The minorities are allowed a lower score for university intakes. There are 39,000 mosque in China, and 2100 in the US. China has about 3 times more mosque per muslim than the US. When terrorist attacks happened in Xinjiang, China had two choices: 1. Re-educate the Uighur extremists before they turned terrorists. 2. Let them be, after they launch attacks and killed innocent people, bomb their homes. China chose 1 to solve problem from the root and not to do killing. How the US solve terrorism? Fire missiles from battleships, drop bombs from the sky. During the pandemic, When China took extreme measures to lockdown the people, they were accused of being inhuman. When China recovered swiftly because of the extreme measures, they were accused of lying about the actual numbers. When China’s cases became so low that they could provide medical support to other countries, they were accused of politically motivated. Western Media always have reasons to bash China. Just like any country, there are irresponsible individuals from China which do bad and dirty things, but the China government overall has done very well. But I hear this comment over and over by people from the West: I like Chinese people, but the CPC is evil. What they really want is the Chinese to change the government, because the current one is too good. Fortunately China is not a multi-party democratic country, otherwise the opposition party in China will be supported by notorious NGOs (Non-Government Organization) of the USA, like the NED (National Endowment for Democracy), to topple the ruling party. The US and the British couldn’t crack Mainland China, so they work on Hong Kong. Of all the ex-British colonial countries, only the Hong Kongers were offered BNOs by the British. Because the UK would like the Hong Kongers to think they are British citizens, not Chinese. A divide-and-conquer strategy, which they often used in Color Revolutions around the world. They resort to low dirty tricks like detaining Huawei’s CFO & banning Huawei. They raised a silly trade war which benefits no one. Trade deficit always exist between a developing and a developed country. USA is like a luxury car seller who ask a farmer: why am I always buying your vegetables and you haven’t bought any of my cars? When the Chinese were making socks for the world 30 years ago, the world let it be. But when Chinese started to make high technology products, like Huawei and DJI, it caused red-alert. Because when Western and Japanese products are equal to Chinese in technologies, they could never match the Chinese in prices. First world countries want China to continue in making socks. Instead of stepping up themselves, they want to pull China down. The recent movement by the US against China has a very important background. When Libya, Iran, and China decided to ditch the US dollar in oil trades, Gaddafi’s was killed by the US, Iran was being sanctioned by the US, and now it’s China’s turn. The US has been printing money out of nothing. The only reason why the US Dollar is still widely accepted, is because it’s the only currency which oil is allowed to be traded with. The US has an agreement with Saudi that oil must be traded in US dollar ONLY. Without the petrol-dollar status, the US dollars will sink, and America will fall. Therefore anyone trying to disobey this order will be eliminated. China will soon use a gold-backed crypto-currency, the alarms in the White House go off like mad. China’s achievement has been by hard work. Not buy looting the world. I have deep sympathy for China for all the suffering, but now I feel happy for them. China is not rising, they are going back to where they belong. Good luck China. -Zeis Siez
@odyssey327 Жыл бұрын
Bravo! Your comments deserve more thumbs up from people. I am a historian, particularly on the history of China and I couldn't agree more with the brief account you wrote on China.
@Lord-ds6mz Жыл бұрын
Wow, historian, which country are you from, bro?@@odyssey327
@wk3960 Жыл бұрын
US greatest export is toilet paper money backed by sanction and bombs. BTW the dollar dont belong to US. It belongs to the FED RESV. THE BANKSTERS OWN AMERICA. The banksters use America to rule the world. All their soldiers who went to war died for the banks not their county. Their lives so cheap.
Thank you Bill, 感谢你作为一位普通的外国友人,真实地描写中国,中国人和其他国际上的大多数国家人民一样,热爱和平,友善,努力,希望这个地球大家庭相互友爱,共同为地球的未来一起努力,而不是互相仇恨,互相竞争。“让”生“爱”, “争”生“恨”。
@love87557388 Жыл бұрын
共产党是要推翻全球的秩序
@hanslee1018 Жыл бұрын
退一步海阔天空
@wiederecovsky Жыл бұрын
Mr. Bill Einreinhofer, thank you very much to share with us the precious images you'd collected.
@Garbeaux.10 ай бұрын
You’re welcome from The Einreinhofer Family.
@ajjpainting Жыл бұрын
Can't help my tears at end of the video! "Their stories live on through me, and now they live on through you as well". ❤
@tomfan4721 Жыл бұрын
great document!I'm from China and it's my first time to see many such photos of China in the 19th and early 20th century.
@marklee8512 Жыл бұрын
High respect to Bill, what an honest and open journalist!
@wintkyaw7576 Жыл бұрын
Great respect to the maker of this documentry and leaders and people of China.
@MatCendana Жыл бұрын
Thoughtful, high quality documentary. I've gotten new insights about a few things here. Not just about China but "Life". --Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
@Albion80s Жыл бұрын
A big Thank You for producing this fantastic documentary.
@geekgeek3353 Жыл бұрын
Great documentary. I am Chinese and have been living in the US for more than 25 years. It is the first that I see many photos and video clips in this documentary.
@Jayatfishing Жыл бұрын
Me too
@hlin3 Жыл бұрын
Tears in my eyes when watching Mr. Einreinhofer's documentary, from a Chinese child born in 1989
@wheniamfree Жыл бұрын
You are the one to be thanked for making such a wonderful documentary on an important part of Chinese history. Thanks Bill.
@yeongwengtuck2253 Жыл бұрын
The Chinese had survived many difficulties of bitterness throughout. They will now excel and shine.
@summer12151 Жыл бұрын
Like what they did with Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism ? 😮
@johnli6430 Жыл бұрын
@summer12151 yes ! Like what they did in Tibet ..now Tibet is more developed and prosperous under PRC.. unlike under the Dalai lama before who had serfdom and slavery .😅
@songhanshan9843 Жыл бұрын
Yep, Dalai Lama was the biggest slave owner in 20th century since the majority of Tibetan are serfs. CCP saved them, transformed Tibet into a liberal world from a theocracy.
@tanjongmalim6869 Жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
@trapper1511 Жыл бұрын
@@johnli6430its not the money and cell phones I am talking about. Its how Tibetan religion and culture were systematically destroyed under the communists 😮
@TedR26 Жыл бұрын
Great documentary. Thanks
@chinophat Жыл бұрын
Thank you Bill for a awesome doumentary and thanks to those who share theirs story.
@muralidharankv169 Жыл бұрын
Pearl S Buck and her famous book the Good Earth deserved mention in this video. She was an American novelist who lived in China .
@Zero-hl2zy Жыл бұрын
Best U Tupe history channel I learned a lot ❤👍
@vincentzhang1808 Жыл бұрын
As a Chinese, I thank you so much for the precious video documentary of our history!
@hide_on_peanut Жыл бұрын
this perspective is so special
@HongFu-gc2ob Жыл бұрын
What a touching documentary, I can’t help tearing watching this
This was an amazing documentary! Great work, learned a lot
@juliaxu4198 Жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@TonyBrown12138 Жыл бұрын
已经是一个拍摄很详细的纪录片了,记录了从清朝灭亡到当今的中国!很厉害的纪录片导演!
@Fj8282haha8 ай бұрын
世界人民团结进步很重要啊…I don’t normally drop tears, but once at the end of the documentary. Suddenly I realized Bill summarized the four generations of my family in one video and reminded me how we ppl should work together for a better future for humanity TOGETHER, no more “stars” counts on our fighter jets …
@dingli2934 Жыл бұрын
I literally teared in the last bit. Thanks so much for documentary the brief China history. Being many years' oversea student and returned to China for years, I resonate with many images and memory. We will stay strong and carry on with the kindness in our heart no matter what.
@alanmeng3013 Жыл бұрын
Taking an objective view of history, extracting its essence, and discarding its shortcomings, let us continue to progress! I am an English learner,it’s nice to you at the channel.😢
@justbe1451 Жыл бұрын
Awesome documentary, great history lesson! ❤
@sebspataro3331 Жыл бұрын
At 23.22min the narrator describes the Japanese atrocities as similar to German atrocities. I always thought that the Japanese made the Germans look like angels
@Laobiao666 Жыл бұрын
The massacre caused by the Germans was a systematic top-down genocide. The massacre caused by the Japanese was a widespread madness that permeates the entire Japanese society.
@sidneysoon27454 ай бұрын
Great serie, gave me a profound insight at the epoch and about a Chinese immigrant's background and seeing the world: my Dad, a product from that epoch.
@kornelokachorino4169 Жыл бұрын
Wow, great video😊
@xiaolong1100 Жыл бұрын
I have met the only elder who understands history from many angles. I admire you from the bottom of my heart❤❤❤ from China🤝 So I believe here will be able to meet rational foreign friends, I am always waiting for your number🤝🤝🤝
@tapak8330 Жыл бұрын
Kita anak cucu lahir di indonesia tapi bagi kami negara kakek moyang tetap bagian budaya kami tetap menjunjungi tinggi budayanya tanpa mereka tdk mungkin ada kita turun temurun.❤❤ Di sana kami di situlah tanah kelahiran kita❤❤
@Andy-kf8bh Жыл бұрын
Agree 👍👍
@GHAWBBA Жыл бұрын
THANKS FOR THIS BEAUITFUL DOCUMENTARY
@vida9960 Жыл бұрын
Chi Che and gratulations for this well made documentary Sir 🙏
@kacloenemeleneo9352 Жыл бұрын
great people in China
@Garbeaux.10 ай бұрын
Chinese*
@ltbriar17 ай бұрын
I like “great people in China” because the term includes not only ethnic Chinese but people who lived or live there, especially those that spent their childhood during the wars and difficult times. Their words prove that part of history really existed regardless how the Japanese govt and politicians try to wash it away. I can forgive Japanese for their greedy invasion but I will not forgive them for their coward denial and distortion of what their ancestors’ crime.
@Fj8282haha8 ай бұрын
Thank u so much . Learn a lot from different perspectives. 非常感谢🙏
@epicbluerat9999 Жыл бұрын
Great respect to the chinese people, strong, wise, enduring.
@cjnguyen5812 Жыл бұрын
and now broke 😂
@bakecook8121 Жыл бұрын
Your mother is broken
@epicbluerat9999 Жыл бұрын
@bakecook8121 shhhhh, I still feel bad about that, I promised I'd go easy on her but when I got a feel for that kitty I beat it up.
@shashajoe10 Жыл бұрын
@@cjnguyen5812 You vietnam sgould be broken into two south and north
@cjnguyen5812 Жыл бұрын
@@bakecook8121 she broken the Chinese flu curse
@台独的老父亲 Жыл бұрын
我来自中国,好作品!所述基本属实!感动,谢谢作者
@长潭东昌轩 Жыл бұрын
从一些个人经历的角度讲历史,谢谢比尔。Bill, thank you very much for the history from personal perspective!
@Oztralian Жыл бұрын
An exceptional documentary documenting an exceptional country, like Phoenix, rising from its ashes
Algorithms recommend what we like to watch, and if we're not actively looking for different points of views, most likely we'll be exposed to views we agree with most of the time. I’ve been trying to watch various channels to try to make comprehensive understanding of the world. I’ve made many videos teaching Chinese language in a vivid and humorous way. I hope somebody can recommend my videos to those who want to learn Chinese. For beginners, Chinese characters may look complicated. But once you learn about 100 basic radicals, most characters become easy. I hope more people can learn Chinese to get comprehensive firsthand information about China and most likely seek more job opportunities. Know ourselves as well as our partners, competitors, adversaries….. Learning a completely different foreign language is fun. Seeing problems from different perspectives enriches our thinking.
@8964美籍回族人谈耶稣 Жыл бұрын
A documentary to make me a cry.
@willzhong2229 Жыл бұрын
Great job. Thanks for your video.
@veronicalogotheti1162 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing
@carlosalbertoguzman Жыл бұрын
A China le perjudicó muchísimo abandonar su tradicional "Patrón de la Plata", una moneda muy estable que le permitía comerciar con todo el Mundo. Creo que eso sucedió a principios del Siglo 20, así fue como comenzó un período de decadencia económica para China, la Plata aseguraba una moneda estable, algo que no deseaban Japón e Inglaterra. Después de su cruenta guerra civil, China abrazó el Comunismo, un Sistema político que modificó sustancialmente después de la muerte de Mao Zedong. Hoy China es una Potencia económica, atrás quedaron los tiempos oscuros, al que no quieren volver jamás 🇨🇳
@saurabhkm Жыл бұрын
Very tastefully done!
@seanlcs6 ай бұрын
A simplified, very engaging and unbiased documentary to describe how China progress after the fall of the last dynasty. They learnt the hard way that military might is a MUST to have peace
@longyh6686 Жыл бұрын
Thank you Bill for your sincere record. It is an excellent documentary. Its account of China's modern times can be called a romantic epic. It is in line with my understanding of our country's history and is impartial.
@MuqiSu Жыл бұрын
Thanks Bill! I was very touched by this documentary.
@guytruth5598 Жыл бұрын
I not yet go through this video yet but will give you a like first for doing this video of the Chinese.👍👍👍👏👏👏🙏🙏🙏
China’s 75th birthday coming up in a few days! Long live China, a country I love and feel very privileged to be living in❤
@188schatz Жыл бұрын
Very great dpcumentary I have ever met.
@bunkerhillct Жыл бұрын
Great effort, thank you
@florinezunker9095 Жыл бұрын
Bill,thank you very much!
@JoshuaNguyen-b6y Жыл бұрын
Very nice documentary
@四季思怀 Жыл бұрын
❤The Chinese thank you for your efforts, the film you made is very wonderful, thank you!
@outisnemo555 Жыл бұрын
Americans living in 1930s China: we saw children being bayoneted. Japanese today: What war?
@Fj8282haha8 ай бұрын
太对了Right on! Almost no my japs frd know ab dat.. they just know there was once war vs. china know too much about the china - Japan war more than historian. These division is causing more problems… forgive but not forget for better future
@channnwarren3244 Жыл бұрын
Appreciation to the career- long devotion to the film!
@islander868 Жыл бұрын
great documentary and great people
@奇缘村长 Жыл бұрын
感谢你用心记录着我们国家的发展历史!
@leon-iw7jq Жыл бұрын
Thanks.谢谢纪录,让我从另一面了解历史
@mariotagliaferro3260 Жыл бұрын
Bel documentario e istruttivo. Viva la Cina, antica e moderna.
@davidgamer321 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for making this documentary with a western eye.
@cC-dw8yw Жыл бұрын
感谢你制作这样的视频对于中国人来说他十分珍贵
@kathri1006 Жыл бұрын
It will bode well for the future, to teach about the hardships of the past and the principles of living frugally to the young to continue the strength of the future people.
@羽少-w4q Жыл бұрын
很棒的关于中国的纪录片,谢谢中文字幕
@dl-417.sohka.madika Жыл бұрын
Can I ask you a question, what does your logo the hand with the 3 fingers mean?
@杨宝华-v4g Жыл бұрын
Thank you very much bill
@tissifield25 Жыл бұрын
Thank you Bill! 谢谢🙏🏿比尔
@Nextivor Жыл бұрын
respect to Bill
@chenmichael22897 ай бұрын
GOOD VIDEO THANK YOU!
@martinchang3093 Жыл бұрын
thank you bill
@yeuemxuatdoi Жыл бұрын
On behalf of the world, I congratulate China on its phenomenal achievements in the history of mankind!
I love the way you present the show, hope there is no war on USA and China for Chine don’t want to be the Master of the world, It’s too big for the two countries to be together.
@@User948Z7Z-w7n this language is Tigrinya from Eritrea. Thanks .
@User948Z7Z-w7n Жыл бұрын
@@Kemalemeye i google searched it first by your username but thanks for reply! Tiringya scripts has very unique feel to it like a cuneiform
@tyronevaldez-kruger5313 Жыл бұрын
@@Kemalemeye I can't read Tigrinya (alphabet is hard) but I speak it fluently. Eritrea is special with a potential to accomplish great things.
@NABIL-FLAK88 Жыл бұрын
وشكرا جزيلا دائما على التوالي 😮
@jackhenry4737 Жыл бұрын
thanks a lot to have given me a chance to know my own country.
@毛毛-s9t Жыл бұрын
我1990年出生。见证了中国从无到有。从有到强。
@jhonlie5460 Жыл бұрын
You guys has to remember not only of humiliation in that's centuries there's an eight countries that destroyed the yuanmingyuan summer palace the famous palece and those eight countries possessing a lot of priceless think like a 12 Zodiac heads and etc
@雅君墨客-i9z Жыл бұрын
不只是八个国家,十几个不止都侵略参与了
@onerainhsia6659 Жыл бұрын
平和、友善地叙述
@zipengzhou9455 Жыл бұрын
Very good job!
@williamlee7672 Жыл бұрын
Considering the destruction and mass killings over the past 100 years. China has done ok for itself.
As a Chinese, I appreciate that you made a documentary about Chinese history but I also doubt that why you skipped Chinese history from 1949 to 1989. This period is considered to be the most chaotic and traumatizing in Chinese history, and many important events occurred during this time, such as the famine that caused more than 30 million deaths and the Cultural Revolution etc.
@mikexie4849 Жыл бұрын
Cause that was a ashamed blocking period , no one foreigner was permitted to get in though the poky window
the Chinese government and the people have become the most evil power in the world if you take a deep look into them. they take the side with Russia(Putin), Kim jeong-eun and Hamas. the chinese people are uncivilized, greedy, nazi and don't care about right and wrong.