Intro to Historical Chinese Geography

[@kevinelruler]

It's so hard to find quality geography content that's not western oriented. Thank you so much for this.

[@gatesofkilikien]

Thanks, glad you liked it!

[@LaggingGames]

This is an invaluable resource to understand historical Chinese geopolitics, great work man

[@gatesofkilikien]

thanks, glad you've found it helpful! I'm working on more videos on Chinese geography too so looking forward to sharing more in the future.

[@imjustsam1745]

I've been binging after work all week. This channel is a gem.

[@ne3579]

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[@shasta_ganti]

Seriously!! The Romance of the Three Kingdoms (bc of a tv serial I saved here bc of interest in the Total War Game five years ago I’m finally clearing out of my watch list) has been my most recent hyperfixation and this has cleared SO MUCH up!

[@TheWhiskyDelta]

Fun notes on the yellow river. It's course originally was mostly more northerly before the more recent millenia (This is why Anyang was the Shang captial for example). It's changing course and intense flooding means that the central plains, despite it's immense farming wealth, has historically lacked major cities actually located within the plains. Instead all the major cities are found around the edge of the plains along mountainsides; Anyang, Luoyang, Kaifend, Xuchang etc. Even Xuzhou of Cao Cao, is located in a small hill region. Indeed if you go through the big cities today in the plains a great many have no significant history marked from before the modern era. And even those that do were usually just regional hubs. Compare that to the Yangtze where most cities have existed as major cities for thousands of years. The second fun thing of note is that the Bay of Bohai used to be far larger. The land Tianjin sits on didn't even exist 1000 years ago. When it was first founded Beijing may have been nearly coastal

[@ChikaiCheng-ts1fi]

在兩千年前，上海還在海底，廣州城建在海岸線旁

[@lexsongtw]

As a Taiwanese, I really wish our teacher had taught us this geography overview before diving into Chinese history. Even for me, this video helps clarify why many events unfolded the way they did. I learned a lot from it.

[@freemanol]

Sad to see young taiwanese losing their heritage. I'm 5th generation overseas chinese yet I still consider myself 100% chinese and learn chinese history

[@Oustein]

Really interesting. The overview i didnt knew i wanted.

[@gatesofkilikien]

Thanks, glad to hear you've enjoyed the video!

[@laturnich9507]

A marked improvement on the original video. Always happy to see the progression of your channel. Keep at it!

[@gatesofkilikien]

Thanks for all your support too! It's been a lot of experimenting this past year, and I've definitely learned a lot.

[@tieck4408]

Informative, pleasant, well-paced. Thank you!

[@gatesofkilikien]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Michael-el]

This is fabulous. I've always struggled to fully understand Chinese geography from a historical perspective, but you've presented this with great clarity. Many thanks!

[@ScottSueker-v1r]

Incredible video. Loved you mixing of American slang and Chinese enunciation/pronunciation. So many Chinese history videos I've watched now make much more sense. Shay a shay.

[@gatesofkilikien]

Appreciate the feedback, and yes one of my goals for this channel is to make Chinese history more accessible in English. Chinese history has a lot of recurrent themes and "rules", so to speak, and they often could be applied to different time periods.

[@sevrent2811]

wow this was good. I've been looking for some more detailed explanations of Chinese history. Especially ones that consider Chinese culture/conciousness around it.

[@gatesofkilikien]

Glad you liked it! This is one of my main goals for the channel - make the stuff that I grew up reading in Chinese more accessible to an English-speaking audience.

[@Tinil0]

Oh man, thank you so much for this. As you know, a geographic understanding of an area is like...50% of the entire understanding of the history of the area, it influences EVERYTHING to the point where you think it's almost destiny how history played out because of the geography involved. I've always really lacked that with China and wanted to know more, so this is great. Understanding the core divides in Chinese history is so very important to understanding how and why stuff happened the way it did.

[@dutrareis]

One of the best videos I've ever seen on this platform. Not only on history and geography, but overall. This was a masterclass.

[@maximuslluis]

This is incredibly easy to understand and seemingly (as an non-educated person in this topic) incredibly usefull to learn about Chinese history, the conditions of local folk and to understand the thought process of the people in power. I have been seeing all your videos and they all awesome, great work and thanks a lot for bringing this knowlege with this quality for free!

[@gatesofkilikien]

Thanks, great to hear they've been helpful! I know Chinese history can be such a hard nut to crack for non-Chinese speakers for a variety of reasons, so hopefully these videos can help make some of that easier.

[@Discotekh_Dynasty]

This is the sort of thing I’ve been looking for for years, thank you my friend!

[@gatesofkilikien]

Glad I could help! I’ve noticed too there’s just not a whole lot of resources on these things in English, so thought I’d do what I can to contribute.

[@Discotekh_Dynasty]

@@gatesofkilikien well you’ve earned a subscribe from me 😊

[@HandsomeBoh]

I studied history at one of the best universities in the world, listened to lectures by 易中天 and other famous professors, read most of the historical texts you refer to in your videos, even read countless academic papers, and I can decisively say that your videos are better than literally anything else out there! It’s a truly valuable resource for getting people up to speed rapidly. Chinese academics are often extremely biased towards established narratives; and Western academics are usually either super niche or somewhat clueless. Yours is the only resource I’ve seen which is concise, impartial, and accurate. What’s the best way to support you and help you continue to make new / better content?

[@gatesofkilikien]

Thanks so much for your support, and yeah one of my main goals for these videos is to combine Chinese with western historiography. Like you said Chinese historiography, as rich in information as it is, tends to repeat certain narratives over and over again, whereas Western historiography, as much as the research methodologies are excellent, tends to gloss over a lot of things that I consider quite fundamental, like geography or a basic narrative history. It's one thing if records on all those things are lost, but given how rich the Chinese historic records are, I feel like all the fancy Western analytical techniques still need to be done in the setting of a good grasp of narrative history first, which also requires knowing geography. I appreciate your wanting to help the channel grow too, and I think right now being able to get your feedback on upcoming videos would be extremely helpful, especially since you're knowledgeable with both the Chinese and non-Chinese approaches to Chinese history. I'm experimenting with expanding the scope and improving the production techniques of the upcoming videos, so there will be trial and error involved.

[@micha2909]

Thank you! I learned a lot. It explains well why things happened the way they did.

[@yurigagarin9765]

Instant subscribe, what a little jewel of a channel

[@eingrobernerzustand3741]

Ive Bookmarked a video of this channel half a year ago, and am now regretting not checking it out earlier as im bingewatching your content.

[@Menzobarrenza]

Awesome video, man! This was super helpful, informative, detailed in the best way, and useful.

[@gatesofkilikien]

Thanks, glad you've found it helpful!

[@jpbcollins]

Absolutely brilliant! I’ve searched high and low online for exactly this-a primer on the basic geographic structure of China and East Asia. This answers so many questions. Bravo!

[@Spacemongerr]

This is very good. Straight-forward well-sorted information and no superflous fluff or nonsense. Thank you. Greetings from northern Europe.

[@gatesofkilikien]

Thanks, glad it was helpful! Greetings from California as well.

[@OmegaTaishu]

That map is gorgeous, though. Thank you for the amazing video! 8:26 Now it makes more sense when Cao Cao says "XUZHOU WAS MINE IN THE FIRST PLACE! MINE!!" in Three Kingdoms ep.21

[@EpicTrainsCanada]

Thank you for this! I just started a book on Chinese history and it opened with paragraphs of geographical descriptions, so this is massively helpful!

[@cmaven4762]

This is such an excellent video. Whenever I want to understand an issue about historical China, whether during peace or war, I come back to it.

[@mrtaiwan]

Wonderful and unique perspective on Chinese history. Thank you so much!

[@gatesofkilikien]

Thanks for the support!

[@franciszhou6329]

Splendid. You made the subject must more interesting compare to my MHS geography teacher, I learned something new about my ancestral nation.

[@bobevans9996]

correct me don't shut me up usa made n spread covid in china - it’s usa’s ww3 on china that boomerang n usa became epic center 1 usa own 200+ labs worldwide - the only one with pandemic capability 2 italian fauci funded wuhan 3 italian peloci took it to wuhan - her arrival departure - incubation period 4 german trump blame it on china - he hate china n he got confrontational habits - he’ll bring us nukes n empty store shelves 5 fort detrick shut down suddenly - it’s the bio lab that many viruses r born they got japanese vivisection data 6 china let u n inspect usa dare not youtube google wants to force people to - not hate - hatred so inhumane n so no freedom demoncrazy - shut us up n warn us - like kids - all the time now some adult grownup history/truth/facts geert is right usa crazy childish dreamy evil multiculturalism fail - don't make another usa/hell all foreigners in any countries - immigrate back home to origin can't mix races either - especially low iqs n high iqs - bad for both - let the low iqs die away - don't make n keep them in pain obama's kids r all black africans n harry's n suukyi's r all white europeans again already burmese r from north china n thai r from south china japanese r chinese evil twin - chinese emperor sent 500pairs of boys n girls with a eunuch to find the fountain of youth n they landed in japan that's why they look shanghainese n got serious polite eunuch manners usa stole china forest n call it vietnam n use vietnam to steal most islands there usa is trying to steal china island n call it taiwan right now christian philipinos r not asians they r latinos - immigrate back home to origin - spain spanish r the very first colonist criminals muslim indonesians n malaysians r not asians they r mideasterners - to mideast hindu indians r not asians they r dark europeans - to india - out of hongkong singapore myanmar ... rohingas r not myanmar - they r call indian then bangaladeshi then rohinga - to bangaladesh stop occupying/colonizing myanmar - where is myanmar's human rights muslim ulghurs r not chinese they r turks - to turkey all kinds of indians get out of myanmar hongkong singapore ... even british had left - all foreigners out of all countries british rule india n burma as one country from 1886 to 1937 british whitemen want one world one race for simple easy rule - evil stupid whitemen racist hatecrime asians n burn asia since day one they return most countries but still to return continents islands waters … natives in the americas australia newzealand n all islands - indonesia philipine taiwan ... r from china so all these/whole pacific n half atlantic belongs to china so return all to china with reparation n without a shot like british hongkong n portuguese macau - the 2 omens of things to come n all racist sick low common thieves - 600 mil total - immigrate back home to origin - europe india africa spain mideast ... biden to ireland trump germany peloci italy haley india oprah africa cruz spain omar gaza zuckerberg israel ... abraham believers the christians muslims jews r worst colonist criminals ever they wield the cross n spread invade occupy around worldwide these 3 will return all stolen lands ... world will reset to precolonial order china 8000yrs civilization chinese highest iq - google bing search usa 200yrs wild wild west bomb happy barbarian bully usa/cia/pelocissssssssss r fighting 15 wars right now - msn.com they power profit world die debt erase usa before it war earth to extinction usa demoncrazy freedom is old boring silly usa multiculturalism fail - look at it - usa is sinking - in quicksand coward usa never dare declare their bully wars n never dare fight one on one usa did not win ww2 - russia n china did - they were fighting germany n japan for over 10 yrs n only when they start to win then usa came in with dday n nukes unnecessarily n stole russia n china's thunders - usa top coward thief usa n gang lost to lone afghan after 20 long yrs n cry n ran home with tail between legs usa n gang lost korea to lone china usa n gang lost vietnam to lone china russia is first to space not usa russia got most nukes not usa usa faked moon trip n said no water china found water n planted seeds moon is china's usa think it's #1 greatest country on earth - think again usa is on china's soil - u steal from redindians u steal from china - redindians r from china n true countries r by dna blood usa is by paper ink - usa is fake usa is a global village pretending to be a country god made one adam one eve - god made incest - evil god - silly christians muslims jews buddha gave up palace for a tree - don't want to be like him - silly indians suukyi is enemy of military - her father aungsan is soldier/military/general evil cheap traitor suukyi open thigh for a whiteman not aungsan suukyi - it's suukyi aris အောင်ဆန်း စုကြည် မဟုတ်ပါ စုကြည် အဲရစ် ပါ if no burmese military - burma will be weak burmese people will become like suukyi aris kids n grandkids - become all whitepeople - no more burmese no more burma မြန်မာစစ်သားများမရှိလျှင် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအားနည်းလိမ့်မယ် မြန်မာ အားလုံးဟာ လူဖြူတွေ ဖြစ်လာမယ် suukyi aris စုကြည် အဲရစ်သားတွေလိုမြေးတွေလို မြန်မာတွေမရှိတော့ဘူး မျိုးသုင်သွားလိမ့်မယ် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ မရှိတော့ဘူး မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ သေသွားမှာပါ can't let suukyi have any of aungsan property ... it'll go to aris british colonist criminals - not to burmese aungsan oo can adopt a burmese n leave aungsan's everything to him or make some decendants - fertilize some burmese eggs with his sperms n rent burmese womb/oven - so simple those will be his real n aungsan's real burmese decendants n not aris's british decendants suu kyi kids n grandkids r white people not burmese - look at them they r not aungsansssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss they r arissssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss aungsan bro said that khinkyi is half indian half karen n she got many men before n after aungsan - she is the one who coined the term rohinga - before they were called bengali - immigrate back home to bangaladesh/india - stop occupying/colonizing burma - no - not genocide it's justice - rohinga muslims gang raped n killed a burmese buddhist nun that started the "genocide/justice" health care in usa is different than health care in taiwan or other asian countries in usa whether dr or dentist or vet ... they r like taxi drivers - take the long winding route to get most money n for job security n they want to over do tests prescriptions everything n they want u to see them regularly whether sick or not in taiwan health care is as necessary only - they get paid the same so they take the most effective shortest route - usa is really scary - once u check in u r victim/patient - my friend is a chiropractor n his mother is a medical dr n an acupuncturist but got same victim/patient treatment n die horrible everyone has to die - so make it easy govt let u buy guns knives ropes poisons ... all painful deaths make a happy pill for humans n pets (dogs cats turtles birds pigs cows goats frogs ...) so with swallowing a pill all just go to sleep forever killings n dyings n suicides happen all the time - n everyone has to die - so for when comes the time - u should be able to buy n keep such pills handy myanmar can be suicide country where people go to sleep forever should be good karma - u give them good death instead of horrible death - as is - everyone die horrible as for religions - god made one adam one eve god made incest evil god silly muslims jews chrisians/mideasterners whitemen god #1 country usa war nonstop evil god silly americans buddha leave palace for a tree silly indians sweden or switzerland r suicide legal countries - but u have to go inside a machine like a tanning capsule to die - not a fan china being atheist country don't have religious oppression by the clergy class - no mind control n scare tactic ... china should solve horrible death for world မြန်မာတပ်မတော် = မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော်

[@fellowintrovert664]

I Love China and Chinese history! This is really a very much appreciated and needed help, great Video and thank you ^^

[@gatesofkilikien]

Thanks, glad you found it helpful!

[@Bronze_Age_Sea_Person]

Immediately subscribed. This video format with the physical map of the region giving the geographical context to the history of the land is really great, it makes it easier to comprehend why would a certain city or a certain river be so important. This is like when you study early Roman history, having a map of the Italian Peninsula helps a lot so you can comprehend why Rome fought certain wars like the Samnite Wars.

[@cg9612]

This is so useful. I'm glad to find a discussion of the geography as the main topic. It brings together everything I've learned about China and its history in a coherent and historical whole.

[@RuthlessTragedy]

Im seeing your videos everywhere now! i love this content speaking on the geography of China. What an incredible geography! thanks for sharing this amazing historical info as well!

[@gatesofkilikien]

Glad you enjoy it! And it’s been very cool to see the channel grow over the past year too

[@PizzaEntente]

love it, i was suprised when i looked at the subscriber count, this is like big channel videos, thanks for the great video

[@gatesofkilikien]

Glad you enjoy it! I spent most of this past year working through kinks, looking forward to growing it more over the coming years.

[@EresirThe1st]

What a great video, it really helped get China clear in my mind where previously it had been somewhat murky. Of course all the boundaries you mention at the start of the video no doubt backfired many times - once the outer defences were taken the interior was basically wide open for attack.

[@gutyhuy3817]

I really like this, just wish it had even more in it, such as the Hetao plain, Min River, Pearl River, Liao River ans Liao Dong peninsula. Also some more mentions of Chengdu and Chongqing and historical Ba-Shu. Or how the Guangzhou and the pearl river delta connected China to the Maritime Silk Road. Still really good though.

[@gatesofkilikien]

Thanks for the feedback, and yes these are all topics I want to explore in a lot more detail in future videos. My thought is to have a few videos like this cover broader themes, but then really delve into detailed geography of specific regions after that.

[@TukozAki]

@@gatesofkilikien If feasible these would be super interesting to watch. xie xie hen duo!

[@talamioros]

​​​@@TukozAkiI'm assuming you're learning Chinese and trying to practise it...I'd like to point out that you can't directly translate English "thank you very much" directly into Chinese (hence xie xie hen duo) A correct way to say it would fei chang gan xie 非常感谢!

[@TukozAki]

fei chang gan xie @@talamioros :-) Please is this perfectly fine in a non formal context, or can 'xie xie' induces something like 'a lot' or 'many thanks' depending on the locutor's intonation, or does a slightly shorter common expression than the above exists to show someone 'deeper' gratitude? (ps wo shi fa guo ren)

[@pat8988]

GatesOfKilikien, love the content, but please pause at the end of the sentences. Running the words all together makes comprehension more difficult.

[@thomasfriesejr.9198]

One of the best videos I've seen in a long time. It connected so many dots in my understanding. Great job.

[@gatesofkilikien]

Glad it was helpful!

[@emre.3115]

Would you be interested in making a video about modern chinese geography? That would attract a lot of viewers. I have watched your intro and north-south video 3 times already. Thanks, I appreciate your work

[@edwardwong654]

Wow this explains a lot. I will need to watch it again. Thanks for making it. Great idea.

[@gatesofkilikien]

Thanks for the kind words, glad it was helpful!

[@greenman6141]

Absolutely brilliant. Extremely helpful in trying to grasp so many things about such a large and ancient land.

[@gatesofkilikien]

Thanks, glad you've found it helpful!

[@李景贤-b9t]

Your written English is really beautiful! Cheers!

[@gatesofkilikien]

Thanks, appreciate it!

[@Markus9343]

Wow, YT normally suggests awful videos but this was an incredibly interesting video and really changed my perspective about what china really looks like.

[@astrowarp]

very well made video, keep up the great work!

[@gatesofkilikien]

Thanks, will do!

[@lowersaxon]

Great, this is really core information and although packed densely you learn and understand a lot in a comfortably short time. Compliments sent out!

[@jimmylam1486]

hank you! As a Chinese and have spent some time in studying Chinese History and Geography, I still find this video very useful, clear, concise and to the point. Great Work!

[@richardengelhardt582]

Very well done. I will use it in my intro course to Chinese historical archaeology.

[@jsbae2]

This what is have always wanted to know. Thanks for your great work.

[@joelsherpa2187]

I've been looking for a video on this topic for some time now. Great video! Can't wait for more!

[@gatesofkilikien]

Awesome! Thank you! There's a lot of intricacies to Chinese historical geography, and this video is just meant as an overview. Looking forward to posting more as well.

[@luminyam6145]

That was great, thank you. This was my first video of yours that I have watched, I am going to keep watching, this is fascinating.

[@RadicalCaveman]

I really learned a lot from this dense-packed video. It makes sense out of a lot of what I've read about Chinese history.

[@pieterpuk7684]

Great video. Relevant information, densely packed. I love it! Looking forward to watching more.

[@gatesofkilikien]

Awesome, thank you! I have a lot more planned as well, and looking forward to sharing them soon.

[@Ufthak]

Fantastic introductory video. Subscribed immediately. Would love to see more videos on how millennia of intensive agriculture and river flow manipulation made it progressively more difficult to manage the rivers in North China Plain and Yangtze.

[@gordonwang6248]

Same here. Would be really interesting to know more on how river course changes, (especially the Yellow River) played a role in geopolitics at that time as well.

[@gatesofkilikien]

Yes definitely, I plan to delve into these topics a lot more in the upcoming videos, and depending on the time period the position of the lower course of the Yellow River definitely did alter the balance of power between the different regions.

[@TomMorrison-cc6xw]

Excellent! I've become quite enamored of Chinese history & this video explains so much that I had been confused about. Definitely subscribed & looking forward to binging on all your posts. Keep up the great work!

[@Mixcoatl]

Great video. Your explanation as to why the cycle of collapse and reunification has repeated so many times was particularly enlightening.

[@gatesofkilikien]

thanks, great to hear you've found it helpful!

[@raiyaanda1st]

An excellent video. I have always been curious about China's geography but never got around to further reading. This was very informative and well structured. Looking forward to more of your content!

[@MenwithHill]

That's such a great idea ! This kind of information is extremely useful to process historical events and im very glad you made it. It truly helps.

[@Kasquede]

Excellent video, a perfect intro for new learners and a great refresher for others orienting themselves in Chinese history

[@gatesofkilikien]

Thanks, glad you've found it helpful!

[@liuxaun8385]

Hoping for an in-depth video on the Sichuan basin some time!

[@gatesofkilikien]

Yes, one of these days I'll get to making one on the region, although I have to get through other places like Xi'an, Luoyang, Nanjing, etc. first.

[@tomstieve]

Honestly, that was amazing. I'm a geographer, and I really appreciate you teaching me this!

[@gatesofkilikien]

Thanks, I'm glad to hear you found it helpful!

[@hanssolos3699]

0:08 i love rurrnning about chinese history as u mentioned ❤

[@mynameisforrest]

Thanks for combining history and geography in such a coherrent way. Learned so much about how China became what it is today. Going to check out more of your videos. Peace from Sweden!

[@gatesofkilikien]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!

[@robertodagostini4946]

Enjoying your vids as a entertainment pastime because I’m super excited to learn! China is so bloody interesting! Geography especially and how it’s shaped the history!

[@gatesofkilikien]

Thanks, glad you've enjoyed the videos! And yes like you said geography has definitely played a huge role in history.

[@bunmeng007]

This is a brilliant overview of Chinese geography. Made me understand the geography in the romance of the 3 kingdoms much much better.

[@syjiang]

Outstanding presentation

[@gatesofkilikien]

Thank you!

[@brianomahonyy]

I've been waiting for this video for over a decade :). Great Job!

[@gatesofkilikien]

Appreciate the comment and glad you've found it helpful. I'm planning to work on a lot more videos focusing on the different regions/cities of China, so stay tuned.

[@Ethan-cz8xq]

I've picked up a lot of this from my own reading of Chinese history, but it is still so helpful to have it all just clarified and put in one place. Like + subscribed

[@gatesofkilikien]

thanks, glad you've found it helpful!

[@pierremayer94]

Amazing piece of work! A lot of information in a short time yet everything is clear.

[@gatesofkilikien]

Thanks, appreciate the kind words!

[@Jhossack]

About to watch. It will be interesting to see the tone regarding past and present ideas of territorial sovereignty

[@Realist968]

Astounding. I can't wait to watch all your videos!

[@gatesofkilikien]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed this video, and hope you find the other ones helpful too!

[@Realist968]

@@gatesofkilikien I sent these tow about 20 people i know.

[@malkomalkavian]

Thank you, nice and clear :)

[@gatesofkilikien]

Glad you liked it!

[@sksim6154]

Fantastic. Very helpful in helping me appreciate Chinese history. 多谢地理老师 。

[@gatesofkilikien]

Thanks, appreciate the kind words too, and glad you found the video helpful!

[@andynz7]

Ok I'm going to be binge-watching all the rest of your China videos now!

[@gatesofkilikien]

Thanks, glad you've enjoyed this video!

[@Lunariant]

Extremely insightful and beautifully presented. Thank you!

[@gatesofkilikien]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@oldtechie6834]

I have some knowledge of Chinese history. This is a very good and pretty accurate presentation.

[@gatesofkilikien]

Thanks, glad to hear that!

[@tfsweet]

Such a great video. Very informative! Keep up the great work!!!

[@gatesofkilikien]

Thank you! Will do!

[@lukapichler3666]

I could watch hours of this content. Fantastic video, I hope to see more!

[@saltpony]

Thank you for a great video. I work with many 1st Gen Chinese and I am eager to know about their homeland. ❤

[@xindu1151]

Thank you so much for this amazingly informational and entertaining video!

[@gatesofkilikien]

Thanks, glad you've liked it!

[@Thatonepersonyouheard]

This is a great video because people in the west don't talk about Chinese history in any more depth than a news paper. Great vid!

[@MrPathorock]

Great work, subbed

[@gatesofkilikien]

Thanks for the sub!

[@surajrshetty]

Excellent video! Watching this from India and was searching for China overview before I deep dive into different regions.

[@gatesofkilikien]

Thanks for your support. I’m working on more specific videos about the different regions of China too, this one is just meant to be an overview.

[@spacelemur7955]

Very nice video. I have been following the horrible floods of Aug 2023, and just the topographic map clarified the issue. The entire Yellow River plain seems to be the flat outwash through the gorge. You inspired me to look up more detailed geologic and geomorphic maps. Thanks! Also "loess" is a one-syllable word from German "löss" (or "löß"). I am looking forward to checking out other videos from you, as you give concise, clear presentations.

[@tylergermanowicz5756]

I greatly enjoyed and appreciated this video. Thank you.

[@gatesofkilikien]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!

[@rpgcinema7916]

Thanks for this video. As a student of classical Chinese, there is a lot of contextual knowledge we need in addition to learning characters.

[@gatesofkilikien]

Thanks, glad you've found it helpful! Yes there's definitely a ton of contextual knowledge like you said, and ancient writers typically assume the readers know them already.

[@greatsarmatae]

Splendid lecture, highly informative channel, appreciate it, keep it up.

[@gatesofkilikien]

Thanks, will do!

[@nancytestani1470]

This is great, fascinating

[@gatesofkilikien]

Thanks!

[@wiegraf-FNC]

Amazing video. Now I can understand much more the culture focus and history of China in a realistic sense of things. Superb work my friend.

[@importedriceco]

哇噢！这个讲得真不错 :) 深入浅出得覆盖了很多话题 油管上的观众真幸运，能看到你总结的这些内容

[@gatesofkilikien]

谢谢，我也多年来觉得英文网络上关于中国叙事史和地理的资料奇缺，所以希望能通过油管给世界各地的观众介绍一些这方面的内容。

[@paulrichter3645]

I love this content, I really hope you keep it going. Would you consider doing a video on how geography affected the Taiping Rebellion? I read a book on it last year called God's Chinese Son and was blown away by the strangeness and complexity of that story.

[@gatesofkilikien]

Yes, and especially since the Taiping Rebellion affected such a large area, I'm thinking I'll start by covering the geography of individual regions, focusing more on the earlier time periods and then slowly working my way towards more modern periods. Southern China has a lot of micro-regions, although the general principles still tend to apply across time periods.

[@IHMnotuseless2204]

This was positively amazing though, thank you!

[@gatesofkilikien]

Thanks, glad you've liked it!

[@RobertRodgers-r5h]

Outstanding! I really enjoyed your video and subscribed to your channel because of it. I fell in love with studying Chinese history when I was in Middle School thanks to a great teacher. That was 1981. I am retired now, but enjoyed traveling throughout China and teaching English as an adult, in addition to traveling all over the world. The information that you provided was excellent.

[@ZapataOil]

One of the best videos in the history of KZbin.

[@lniswan9219]

Excellent video, I’ll be subscribing and going through your other content now. Keep it up!

[@gatesofkilikien]

Thanks, appreciate the support!

[@alexfang6784]

Wow! I just discovered your channel! Thank you for your great video on the geography and history of China, a topic that is strangely lacking in substantive content on KZbin. Please keep it up.

[@gatesofkilikien]

Welcome aboard, and glad you've found it helpful!

[@kyudanpi4436]

As a Chinese born in China, I was surprised how well-made this video is. I have no complaints except that maybe you can mention why and how the deforestation took place (like due to climate change and population overgrowth, etc.). You are on the way to explain how the geography, economy, and social structures made China what it was in the past and what it is today. Keep up the great work!

[@bobevans9996]

correct me don't shut me up usa made n spread covid in china - it’s usa’s ww3 on china that boomerang n usa became epic center 1 usa own 200+ labs worldwide - the only one with pandemic capability 2 italian fauci funded wuhan 3 italian peloci took it to wuhan - her arrival departure - incubation period 4 german trump blame it on china - he hate china n he got confrontational habits - he’ll bring us nukes n empty store shelves 5 fort detrick shut down suddenly - it’s the bio lab that many viruses r born they got japanese vivisection data 6 china let u n inspect usa dare not youtube google wants to force people to - not hate - hatred so inhumane n so no freedom demoncrazy - shut us up n warn us - like kids - all the time now some adult grownup history/truth/facts geert is right usa crazy childish dreamy evil multiculturalism fail - don't make another usa/hell all foreigners in any countries - immigrate back home to origin can't mix races either - especially low iqs n high iqs - bad for both - let the low iqs die away - don't make n keep them in pain obama's kids r all black africans n harry's n suukyi's r all white europeans again already burmese r from north china n thai r from south china japanese r chinese evil twin - chinese emperor sent 500pairs of boys n girls with a eunuch to find the fountain of youth n they landed in japan that's why they look shanghainese n got serious polite eunuch manners usa stole china forest n call it vietnam n use vietnam to steal most islands there usa is trying to steal china island n call it taiwan right now christian philipinos r not asians they r latinos - immigrate back home to origin - spain spanish r the very first colonist criminals muslim indonesians n malaysians r not asians they r mideasterners - to mideast hindu indians r not asians they r dark europeans - to india - out of hongkong singapore myanmar ... rohingas r not myanmar - they r call indian then bangaladeshi then rohinga - to bangaladesh stop occupying/colonizing myanmar - where is myanmar's human rights muslim ulghurs r not chinese they r turks - to turkey all kinds of indians get out of myanmar hongkong singapore ... even british had left - all foreigners out of all countries british rule india n burma as one country from 1886 to 1937 british whitemen want one world one race for simple easy rule - evil stupid whitemen racist hatecrime asians n burn asia since day one they return most countries but still to return continents islands waters … natives in the americas australia newzealand n all islands - indonesia philipine taiwan ... r from china so all these/whole pacific n half atlantic belongs to china so return all to china with reparation n without a shot like british hongkong n portuguese macau - the 2 omens of things to come n all racist sick low common thieves - 600 mil total - immigrate back home to origin - europe india africa spain mideast ... biden to ireland trump germany peloci italy haley india oprah africa cruz spain omar gaza zuckerberg israel ... abraham believers the christians muslims jews r worst colonist criminals ever they wield the cross n spread invade occupy around worldwide these 3 will return all stolen lands ... world will reset to precolonial order china 8000yrs civilization chinese highest iq - google bing search usa 200yrs wild wild west bomb happy barbarian bully usa/cia/pelocissssssssss r fighting 15 wars right now - msn.com they power profit world die debt erase usa before it war earth to extinction usa demoncrazy freedom is old boring silly usa multiculturalism fail - look at it - usa is sinking - in quicksand coward usa never dare declare their bully wars n never dare fight one on one usa did not win ww2 - russia n china did - they were fighting germany n japan for over 10 yrs n only when they start to win then usa came in with dday n nukes unnecessarily n stole russia n china's thunders - usa top coward thief usa n gang lost to lone afghan after 20 long yrs n cry n ran home with tail between legs usa n gang lost korea to lone china usa n gang lost vietnam to lone china russia is first to space not usa russia got most nukes not usa usa faked moon trip n said no water china found water n planted seeds moon is china's usa think it's #1 greatest country on earth - think again usa is on china's soil - u steal from redindians u steal from china - redindians r from china n true countries r by dna blood usa is by paper ink - usa is fake usa is a global village pretending to be a country god made one adam one eve - god made incest - evil god - silly christians muslims jews buddha gave up palace for a tree - don't want to be like him - silly indians suukyi is enemy of military - her father aungsan is soldier/military/general evil cheap traitor suukyi open thigh for a whiteman not aungsan suukyi - it's suukyi aris အောင်ဆန်း စုကြည် မဟုတ်ပါ စုကြည် အဲရစ် ပါ if no burmese military - burma will be weak burmese people will become like suukyi aris kids n grandkids - become all whitepeople - no more burmese no more burma မြန်မာစစ်သားများမရှိလျှင် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအားနည်းလိမ့်မယ် မြန်မာ အားလုံးဟာ လူဖြူတွေ ဖြစ်လာမယ် suukyi aris စုကြည် အဲရစ်သားတွေလိုမြေးတွေလို မြန်မာတွေမရှိတော့ဘူး မျိုးသုင်သွားလိမ့်မယ် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ မရှိတော့ဘူး မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ သေသွားမှာပါ can't let suukyi have any of aungsan property ... it'll go to aris british colonist criminals - not to burmese aungsan oo can adopt a burmese n leave aungsan's everything to him or make some decendants - fertilize some burmese eggs with his sperms n rent burmese womb/oven - so simple those will be his real n aungsan's real burmese decendants n not aris's british decendants suu kyi kids n grandkids r white people not burmese - look at them they r not aungsansssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss they r arissssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss aungsan bro said that khinkyi is half indian half karen n she got many men before n after aungsan - she is the one who coined the term rohinga - before they were called bengali - immigrate back home to bangaladesh/india - stop occupying/colonizing burma - no - not genocide it's justice - rohinga muslims gang raped n killed a burmese buddhist nun that started the "genocide/justice" health care in usa is different than health care in taiwan or other asian countries in usa whether dr or dentist or vet ... they r like taxi drivers - take the long winding route to get most money n for job security n they want to over do tests prescriptions everything n they want u to see them regularly whether sick or not in taiwan health care is as necessary only - they get paid the same so they take the most effective shortest route - usa is really scary - once u check in u r victim/patient - my friend is a chiropractor n his mother is a medical dr n an acupuncturist but got same victim/patient treatment n die horrible everyone has to die - so make it easy govt let u buy guns knives ropes poisons ... all painful deaths make a happy pill for humans n pets (dogs cats turtles birds pigs cows goats frogs ...) so with swallowing a pill all just go to sleep forever killings n dyings n suicides happen all the time - n everyone has to die - so for when comes the time - u should be able to buy n keep such pills handy myanmar can be suicide country where people go to sleep forever should be good karma - u give them good death instead of horrible death - as is - everyone die horrible as for religions - god made one adam one eve god made incest evil god silly muslims jews chrisians/mideasterners whitemen god #1 country usa war nonstop evil god silly americans buddha leave palace for a tree silly indians sweden or switzerland r suicide legal countries - but u have to go inside a machine like a tanning capsule to die - not a fan china being atheist country don't have religious oppression by the clergy class - no mind control n scare tactic ... china should solve horrible death for world မြန်မာတပ်မတော် = မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော်

[@pteranodon6612]

Very interesting and informative.

[@gatesofkilikien]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@andreaskallstrom9031]

Super good video! Thank you so much!!

[@gatesofkilikien]

Thanks, glad you liked it!

[@Wheedlinglemur]

Nice video. The Algorithm brought me here and it looks like it's done a good job. You've earned my sub and I look forward to watching your other content on Chinese Geography.

[@gatesofkilikien]

Thanks and welcome aboard! The algorithm gods really smiled on my channel this week, although I'm also quite glad I got to slowly work through a lot of kinks over the past 1.5 years while the channel was still much smaller.

[@wheezysqueezebox7651]

That was very succinct and informative! I think I'll need to watch it a few times to absorb all this knowledge! Thanks!

[@joeblack5393]

What an amazing video. Thank you!

[@gatesofkilikien]

Thanks, appreciate it!

[@AbuSous2000PR]

many thanks... that was very helpful. i have to watch it again to fully absorb its details Much love and respect from Palestine

[@gatesofkilikien]

Thanks, glad it was helpful! Yes I try to be very focused and efficient in my videos, especially since I hate to unnecessarily take up peoples' time

[@Matteverest29]

Easy subscribe. What a great and informative video!

[@gatesofkilikien]

Thanks, glad you've enjoyed it!

[@tylerb4235]

Good video my friend. Keep it up

[@gatesofkilikien]

Thank you, I will, appreciate the support!

[@pigboykool]

It is on of few video explained the Importance of Geography related to Chinese history. Looking forward for more topics such as the development of Chinese culture & how the different ethnic Chinese groups forming in China.