China's Forgotten War: The Henan Famine

[@scottbaker5878]

i lived in henan 2004-2009. the people there are honorable, dignified, proud, and still mostly very poor. i was welcomed and treated well as a mandarin speaking American, and adopted a quasi-chinese lifestyle. learning to respect their culture and custom went a long way. they were an easy people to be compassionate towards. i am now, and forever, part henanese.

[@doubledouble4g379]

Good clip as always - I never get tired of learning more about this conflict.

[@怀壁]

Oh trust me, it is not, never forgotten. “一条命，值两块饼干”

[@MM-io2eu]

Love China From Pakistan 🇵🇰

[@blkbelt203]

Watching every program on the history of china ! To get a better understanding on what they have become today. I see why they turned to such a diverse range of animals to eat .

[@jingyid5354]

Yes...I am so glad to see people like you making efforts to understand the reasons behind the phenomenon

[@MargaritaMagdalena]

Are you sure? Food shortages and periodic famines have been reality for people everywhere in the world for thousands of years, before modern farming produced an abundance of food. There's nothing special about China in this respect.

[@MargaritaMagdalena]

​@@jingyid5354 People all around the world eat things that Westerners consider inedible, not just in China. In fact, dog is legal in Switzerland.

[@kumikoOG]

*You hit it on the nail. I always ask that too.*

[@myilham81]

1945: we are free no more starved to death 1959: let me introduce myself

[@Anonymous------]

2022: move over USA.

[@abeu]

Only diff is no one blames KMT for 1942.

[@domshiddenaccount549]

I watch stuff like this because it reminds me how lucky I am to live in this time and in the United States. This man just say up here and said he was eating tree bark. Tree bark. Then we got people in America burning the flag, burning down buildings hating the country. They have no idea how lucky they are to be living in this time and in the country. A country that has provided so much comfort to me in my years on this earth. How can I hate America when it has been so good to me. This is unreal but it reminds me how lucky I am.

[@Anonymous------]

As a part of the USA government's genocide plan to wipe out the native Americans, it killed millions of wild bisons (buffalos) so millions of native Americans would starve to death! You have foods to eat in USA sumply because of the lands and natural resources robbed from the native Americans!

[@moymoy123ish]

Why are many Chinese history videos so tragic?

[@WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1]

.... because modern China has such a turbulent history.... due n no small part to the excesses of Communism.

[@owenstevens5139]

​@@WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1 thank you so much for your pearl of wisdom Mr "both sides are bad"

[@nofucksgiven6804]

Cause their whole history has been tragic

[@TheGreatOldOak]

Lack of individual rights. People are like petrol to be burned up to keep the leader comfortable.

[@freedomordeath89]

@@TheGreatOldOakBecause they never stood up for their rights. 3000 years of being slaves to emperors, kings and dictators. In Europe we had the first democracies 3000 years ago....in China they had emperors 3000 years ago..they had an emperor until the XIX century..and after that only dictators... Rise up China, conquer your freedom. Stop bowing down to lords and kings.

[@luiscondeblazquez8518]

All my respect for this man and all the people who suffered under such a tyranic regime. You are an example!

[@codyshi4743]

I don’t understand why this famine is greatly forgotten. Every time when people think of the great famine in China they think of the 1959 famine under Mao.

[@thespiralgamer5374]

Famine is very scary, hope this will never ever happen again in the future.

[@MargaritaMagdalena]

These poor people ☹️☹️☹️

[@aregup007]

RIP Mrs.Sunshine The King of Hell's Palace" premiered at London's Hampstead Theatre in September.

[@ElevationLowJJ]

What language is he speaking? Does not sound like Mandarin at all.

[@lorrainefarquharson5023]

"Because Mandarin originated in North China and most Mandarin dialects are found in the north, the group is sometimes referred to as the Northern dialects. Many local Mandarin varieties are not mutually intelligible. Nevertheless, Mandarin is often placed first in lists of languages by number of native speakers " - wikipedia

[@Klassenfeind]

Sounds good to me, it's definitely Mandarin with a local flavor.

[@ElevationLowJJ]

I speak Mandarin. That is nothing like Mandarin at all.

[@jianzheng1570]

It’s Kaifeng dialect, belongs to Mandarin. Mandarin is a group of dialects. Normale what we call Mandarin is actually Putonghua...

[@liyawei]

3millions were starved to death

[@Bj-yf3im]

thelifeofasuckywriter That was a different famine. This one occurred in Henan in 1942. The reason for it has been attributed to a combination of natural disasters and the fact that Henan had become a no-man's land that neither Chinese nor Japanese troops would enter.

[@Bj-yf3im]

thelifeofasuckywriter The one you were thinking about is the one that occurred during the Great Leap Forward (1958-1961).

[@MM-io2eu]

In 1957 famine, actually 45 Millions death recorded.

[@brandon_21ea]

First from the dictatorship of Chang Kai Shek then to the Totalitarian rule of Mao Zedong

[@kamalakelly6208]

No doubt the way they eat every insects and any other animals like dog cats !

[@Indboy11]

This makes japan's invasion look like a classroom fight..

[@Microbex]

Indboy11 nope, just nope.

[@MagSnapShots]

The Henan famine happened because of the Japanese invasion.

[@Killuminati1blood]

This video is so shocking 😞 . I guess no social justice warriors are here, nor do they want to learn 👍

[@Clain-Metzger]

I think so

[@chakagenghiskhan4057]

I've never really understood the fascination of Mao and why people still to this day hang a picture of him on their wall. Such a cruel, selfish, and evil man. He allowed the National Party's army at the time, to win the war against the Japanese, then once they were spent, drove them away to claim the CCP/CPC victory, which partook in zero fights. He's an embarrassment to the Chinese people.

[@DylanNyron]

Because the china keeps making propaganda about mao and censors what mao did and it's illegal to know what he actually did in china

[@Mistshock]

This was before Mao you absolute illiterate. This was during the KMT/ROC government, aka modern day Taiwan.

[@abeu]

1942 Chang's KMT was in power. You are a moron mate.

[@ntmj-o7s]

你不了解事情真相，就不要胡说。毛主席带领我们中国人民走向了富强。民国时期，饿死的人很多。河南大饥荒就是一场人祸，停止你的无知

[@ritterwolf9629]

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