History of China from the 17th to the 20th Century

[@MrTVintro]

I can never get over the "local scholar fails exams, proclaims himself Jesus Christs brother and causes civil war that kills millions"

[@therearenoshortcuts9868]

local art student fails to get into art school, proclaims racial superiority and causes world war that kills millions

[@chinguunerdenebadrakh7022]

Local government employee is late to work and decides to rebel instead of accepting punishment for lateness, establishes one of the greatest Chinese dynasties.

[@aaronthewalker]

⁠@@chinguunerdenebadrakh7022 dude! The punishment was freaking dead penalty 😂 if I were him I probably will do the same shit to overthrow the government 😂😂😂

[@louieb8413]

I don’t know🎉 I just

[@richardhighsmith]

Rich aristocratic young man joins military, becomes famous war hero, gets elected President/Prime Minister - Washington, Churchill, JFK, George H W Bush, etc….. or Commoner with extreme wit, charm or intelligence pulls himself up by his own bootstraps and gets elected to the highest offices - Disraeli, Reagan, Lincoln, Obama, etc…. The backstory of Anglo-American leaders is so boring.

[@jaredspencer3304]

Geez, how many times can a country casually lose 100,000 people in skirmishes, marches, purges, or famines? Seems like they have to lose WW1 levels of people before it even gets noticed. What an awful time.

[@Snp2024]

Yeah ming lost 500k troops in one battle and somehow didn't just collapse

[@beepbop6542]

It has always been a very populous region.

[@Kalicious79]

Rulers of China see their people as their subjects. Even modern times.

[@tibchy144]

At the First battle of Kiev, Nazis encircled 450k Soviet troops, estimates are that 15.000 managed to escape.

[@elizabethmender]

That's what I was thinking too! Wow

[@mgill1996]

As a Sikh myself, I am quite impressed you researched this topic deep enough to note the Sino-Sikh War (also known as the 'Dogra-Tibetan War'). It seems it was quite indirectly impactful in the long-term than I had realized. Fascinating video, well-done.

[@thebeanymac]

Yes, lots of interesting information.

[@yousafmehmet]

Do sikhs today view China differently than other Indians?

[@mgill1996]

@@yousafmehmet I don't know about other Sikhs but I do feel differently to China in a positive way because I have researched Sino-Sikh relations. I personally have an interest in Chinese civilization, my ex-partner was a Chinese lady.

[@yousafmehmet]

@@mgill1996 Thank you for the info. I'm a chinese muslim who lives overseas. I've made quite a few Sihk friends and to me they are all upright and honest people. I hope our peoples can understand each other better and develop better relationships.

[@mgill1996]

@@yousafmehmet Thank you for the kind sentiment. Are you a Hui by any chance?

[@zekechap]

Just in time for my sleep. I will remember nothing.

[@JP-ji6of]

Lmaoo so I’m not the only one

[@jk21nola91]

😂

[@Ianoc]

If only I knew how to sleep... it's 5am 😅

[@dodonpa-1]

real

[@johnlacey3857]

He’s got a great voice for that...

[@bhthereaper]

Thank you for the well-researched longform compilation, making such a complex and confusing topic into a digestible format is a great contribution.

[@rabbitsforyang8273]

quite the mix of misinformation, everything from the Battle of Tumu onwards is filled with distortions and bias watching NED propaganda is no substitute for reading actual history books

[@beamazed1162]

1 European No bronze history, only a very small amount of bronze from the water picked up or from the antique market to buy, so don't do carbon-14 determination contrast to China's Sanxingdui see what is carbon-14 determination of bronze and 2 of the European No-no astronomical calendar China has a lot of Observatory sites, no one in Europe there is no such ruins, the need for hundreds of thousands of years of continuous observation, calculation, accumulation can only be a calendar of the 3 European no unified weights and measures, the Chinese unified weights and measures has been more than 2000 years, and many Chinese on the measurement of the appliance unearthed. Europe is not unified weights and measures, where to advanced arithmetic 4 no one in Europe can record the history of the text, each place, each period of the language are not the same, the world's only only China, North Korea, Japan and Vietnam have described the history of the text, i.e., in classical Chinese, for thousands of years without change to recorded history. For the above points, it was able to overthrow it? If not overturned, then the Babylonian some get the cuneiform dictionary book control translation through the mud plate text?, and Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece are fake. Roman is a very small place, not empires, not to mention that the next

[@skellderknowledge3621]

@@rabbitsforyang8273 that's right ! but if only actual history books are not ALL biased lmao

[@rabbitsforyang8273]

@@skellderknowledge3621 official histories are biased towards those that wrote them, so Ming History took the Manchus 120 years to write to best smear their vanquished foes this video took much less effort in trying to smear the entirety of modern Chinese history, like labeling Oirats who fought at Tumu as Mongols, which is like claiming the British won the Spanish American War

[@BiggestCorvid]

​@rabbitsforyang8273 what makes you think it's NED propaganda and not the result of using similar available sources? And I'd appreciate any additional channels and books you'd recommend to get closer to the truth.

[@outisnemo555]

The Ming was not weak during the 16th century, it was simply docile, because the Emperors at the time (especially Jiajing) were not especially diligent rulers. They still had a very efficient bureaucracy that operated finely without the Emperor’s participation, the largest economy on the planet, and maintained a slight technological edge against other civilizations. The 1550 Mongol invasion, for example, did not “sack Beijing”, but instead sacked the rural outskirts of Beijing (Beijing itself was safely walled up, and the Emperor Jiajing, who knew the Mongols were sacking outside the city wall, did not even care to do anything about it). Later in 1592, Jiajing’s grandson Wanli was able to send large Chinese armies to Korea to assist in defending Korea against a Japanese invasion, and eventually drive the Japanese out of Korea in 1598. So, if the Portuguese or Spanish tried to pull a Cortes or Pizarro in China at the time, I think they would probably loose. I mean even a weak Ming dynasty was far more technologically and militarily capable than the Aztecs and Incas.

[@REDnBLACKnRED]

Not to mention a lot of the technological superiority of the west was based on previous Chinese inventions like gun powder and paper.

[@GeneralLiuofBoston1911]

The Ming had held off several European attempts trying to colonize Taiwan or supporting local pirates using overwhelming firepower

[@BS-cc4ks]

@@GeneralLiuofBoston1911 Overwhelming assets? Sure. Firepower? No. Having a lot of fire ships isn't the same as having a lot of firepower.

[@ADayintheLifeoftheTw]

Just a key note, the Aztecs were overthrown by all the tribes that supported Cortez, turns out constantly sacrificing all your neighbors doesn't endear them to you.

[@shryggur]

No problems with disease immunity, no internal turmoil, no technological lag (more of the other way around situation), no fear of horses or whatnot. Cortes's puny gang of what, 600? would be perished under the walls of the first fortress they'd met. Correct me if I'm wrong, but colonization of India was mostly restricted by the control of ports and playing off of internal conflicts up until late 18th century, and India was no China.

[@LibertyScholar]

Love all the work you put into this. But, would it be possible for you to add chapters to this video? It'd be really helpful when I come back for rewatches to reference specific points. Also helps with the algorithm.

[@ohnoes423]

i second this! :)

[@tomlxyz]

Does the algorithm like people only watching parts?

[@sword_god8438]

Jabzy: "Here is an entire history of China from the 17th to 20th century" KZbin: "This is a video about the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, click this link to get some more context"

[@TheEmiljoergensen]

thank you for yet another amazing piece. just wanted to thank you also for adding more and more pointers to geography, time markers, writings of names etc., makes a massive difference to my being able to follow the condense and fast pace, which enables you to summarize so much in relatively short time, it's very, very impressive I have to say. thank you for continously peaking my interest further. absolutely one of the best history youtubers, and i follow quiiiite a few :)

[@mingbinli]

This is one of the best historical summary of the Qing Dynasty, fresh perspectives and very detailed but concise. Wonderful video but to the uninitiated the story may be difficult to follow.

[@ColdDrone13]

This is amazing, thank you! I'm gonna have to watch it dozens of times for it to all sink in, but i'm totally okay with that! I just subscribed after realizing I restarted this video and hadn't subscribed already.

[@lapis.lazuli.]

Congrats @Jabzy for bringing the quality content

[@facebookmary7502]

Hands down you are the best English language channel that covers Chinese history of this era.

[@Matteus2109]

Seriously, how the f*** did this country ever reach a billion people? It's the Hunger Games over there.

[@Elenrai]

Rice, it uh, yeah! Rice. That is legit it. their core crop was rice instead of various corn sorts as in the western part of the old world, hence why a "small community" in much of that region basically translates into "the greater london area"

[@1993Redemption]

Just shows you the extreme ups and downs of overall Chinese history. Things truly were "splendid" (as Xi Jinping wants his country to be) at times, and then when shit falls apart, it rolls off a cliff.

[@tomlxyz]

The population was always just so big that in relative terms it wasn't that much

[@213kilacali]

The two largest population in world India and China is located on the two richest soil on planet. Makes sense

[@p00bix]

Step 1: Have a huge amount of land that is perfect for growing rice, which generates more calories-per-acre-of-farmland than any other staple crop grown in pre-modern times. (Population in 1500: ~90,000,000) Step 2: Once Europeans colonize the Americas and start trading with China, begin to grow Corn and Potatoes in the parts of the country that can't grow rice, with the traditional Wheat originally grown throughout the north left to the worst land that can't grow anything else. This means even more calories per acre of farmland, so that the population almost doubles, and even if the country were, say, fall into almost half a century of constant invasion, civil war, famine, and sheer chaos 1636-1683, it would only temporarily set back population growth.. Once that chaos is over, it can continue growing really fast. (Population in 1600: ~160,000,000, Population in 1700: ~150,000,000, Population in 1800: ~300,000,000) Step 3: Now there are so many people that you're running out of farmland to make more, so population growth will be a lot slower. Try to get your hands on guano--it makes for great fertilizer; once you have those you can generate EVEN MORE food per acre of farmland, thus meaning that droughts are less likely to cause famine, but with everyone still working in the fields, they will have as many kids as possible to maximize farm output. (Population in 1900: ~400,000,000) Step 4: Woops! Looks like the Empire has been overthrown and now we're going to experience half a century (1911-1962) of constant invasion, civil war, famine, and sheer chaos. This will delay our plans a bit, but not to worry; advances in agriculture and medicine mean that the population will STILL rise, just at a slower rate. (Population in 1928: 475,000,000, 1950: 552,000,000, 1963: 640,000,000) Step 5: Now the "Green Revolution" has now commenced, massively improved nitrogen fertilizers, insecticides, mechanized farm equipment, antibiotics, have made famine an impossibility and made it so nearly all kids will reach adulthood. And with the Communist government's atrocious mismanagement, progress on infrastructure, urbanization, and industrialization, are all extremely slow, which means the poor are still mainly relegated to the fields. And with so many people in the fields, that means EVEN MORE KIDS to work those fields!! (Population in 1970: 820,000,000, Population in 1980: 980,000,000) Step 6: Mao died and Deng Xiaoping won out in the power struggle to succeed him. He's inspired by Orthodox Marxism and determines that the country must go through a 'state capitalist' phase before it can achieve communism, where the market is mostly free but everything is still under watchful eyes of the communist government. That means decades of explosive economic growth, and with that farmers begin to pour into the cities, wherein children are a pure economic burden rather than a way to make the farm more productive, so families start having fewer kids. But Deng is so worried about "overpopulation" that he actually bans people from having more than one child. BUT because most of the older generation had been killed in that period of chaos, massive improvements in healthcare mean non-elderly people die far less often, and there were three decades of explosive population growth between the end of the Civil War and beginning of the One-child Policy, there are very few old people or young people in extreme poverty, which means very few deaths each year, while babies keep getting born. This means that the population will still grow for a couple more decades, though the rate of growth would slow down, plateau, and ultimately reverse once people born after 1949 had become old enough to succumb to age-related disease. (Population in 1990: 1,135,000,000, Population in 2000: 1,263,000,000, Population in 2010: 1,338,000, Population in 2020: 1,411,000, Population 2024: 1,411,000) Future population estimates based on current trends, according to the World Bank. Note that the further into the future this estimate goes, the further away from the actual future number it will probably be; which is why the World Bank doesn't go beyond 2050. Population 2030: 1,410,000 Population 2040: 1,401,000 Population 2050: 1,291,000

[@brokoblin6284]

Chinese history is ridiculously interesting, not covered enough. Good job!

[@juhajr]

Your videos are amazing and really unique. Thank you!

[@behindbigm]

I fell asleep and woke up halfway through this

[@SirBoggins]

Lol

[@ekothesilent9456]

Your subconscious mind has absorbed more Chinese history than it ever thought it would. 😂

[@antonyloc]

Wakes up speaking Mandarin

[@eugenearokiasamy5662]

You're hilarious. But thank you for sharing your sleeping habits.

[@lupimali9504]

The tributary system of ancient China is very unique. It originally stemmed from the thought of Tianzi (天子; lit. 'Son of Heaven, or the only ruler as a heavenly being). Therefore, it helped each Chinese emperor to save his face as Tianzi. If some neighboring state dared not bring its tributary to the Chinese emperor, then the emperor would have assaulted such "a discourteous state", and overthrown it so as not to loose his dignity as a Tianzi. This was the very reason why Yangdi of Sui dynasty (煬帝) attacked Goguryeo no less than 4 times. Anyway, even though the tributary system itself had been merely ceremonious for each of them, any tributary states were expected to give its loyalty to Tienzi-that-be as its vassal state, or to serve as its subject nation, in case of the suzerain's emergency. In fact, Goryeo joined in the Mongol Invasion of Japan as troops in support. Such was the case with Joseon that could not choose but did battle with Japan at the Imjin War.

[@宋志鹏-z6e]

Emperor Yang of Sui did not attack Goguryeo for that reason. All the major decisions he made in his life had a profound impact on the future of China. He was like a time traveler who saw far into the future, but he was too eager to succeed, wanting to accomplish everything in his lifetime, which led to the exhaustion of the Sui Dynasty's national strength. Goguryeo originated in Fushun City, Liaoning Province, China, and gradually expanded into the Korean Peninsula. By the time of the Sui Dynasty, Goguryeo had annexed the western part of Liaoning in Northeast China and the northern part of the Korean Peninsula. The Northeast region of China and the Far East of today's Russia have always been rich in fishing and hunting ethnic groups. Once these fishing and hunting ethnic groups start farming, they gradually evolve into countries with strong aggression and war capabilities. Goguryeo was such a country. The Shang Dynasty of China (approximately 1600 BC - 1046 BC), the dynasty established by my ancestors, migrated from the Northeast region before ruling China. The Tang Dynasty inherited the strategy of Emperor Yang of Sui and, after three generations of emperors, annihilated Goguryeo. This was not about trivial matters such as not paying tribute. The subsequent history of China also proved his wisdom. The fishing and hunting ethnic groups that grew up in the same place invaded China from this direction multiple times, establishing the Liao(Khitan ), Jin(Jurchen), and Qing dynasty (the last dynasty of China).

[@lyndonwilbert9244]

Great video! The compilations are my favorite, always excited when one is posted.

[@jamesprice5800]

Went to bed watching youtube and woke up in the morning to this playng. Love your channel! Another good one is Epic History

[@JPJ432]

Jabzy Please do a whole video on Sun Yat Sen! His history is amazing and not to many people know just the extend of what that man did for China. He was a huge Supporter and learner of Abraham Lincoln and the American Founding Fathers and also wanted good ties and alliances with America and Russia mostly for the benefit of his country to grow and be remain sovereign and a shield against London. The relationship between China, Russia, and America during that time was truly amazing and had much potential. Unfortunately his fears became true.

[@FernandoManero-jj9ol]

He was also a friend of lenin

[@TheArmouredOne]

He is in no way a Mary Sue. Revisionists view him in a good light because people want to demonize everything about the CPC. But they forget that the CPC today is far more similar to SunYatSen’s vision of China than it is of Mao’s. But then again who are we to speak of his intentions if the outcome of the war was different

[@moustachio05]

Fun fact: He married a 13 year old girl

[@Cyberpunk_2023]

what were his fears?

[@SirBoggins]

​@@sparklesparklesparkle6318😐😐😐

[@parthicle]

this is amazing and deserves way more than 6k likes. thanks for such in-depth content, PLEASE keep it up

[@sterd1149]

Somehow I keep getting shifted into your vids while playing EU4. Your voice is so soothing, I forget time and become entranced in my game even more. Jabzy > ASMR any day

[@maksim05makarov]

Спасибо Яндекс переводчику за то, что я могу посмотреть это 3-х часовое видео и не расплавить мозги мысленно переводя.

[@jaythefox]

Благодаря Google Translate я могу прочитать ваш комментарий

[@playlist4637]

The music of these videos gives me a weird soothing nostalgia that weighs heavy on me for some unknown reason...

[@tylernaturalist6437]

This video got me through half my work day ❤️

[@isbestlizard]

An antique opium chest would make a cool coffee table - if they were importing tens of thousands a year some must have survived?

[@lincolnhaldorsen5649]

I love morphine and other opiods. Opium is a plant that contains high levels of morphine fun fact!

[@YoniBaruch-y3m]

Are you prepared for the consequences if Customs and Border Patrol checks for narcotics residue?

[@isbestlizard]

@@YoniBaruch-y3m What consequences? The customs dude going 'on careful visual and xray inspection there are no drugs.. i guess that positive opium swab was because it's a 19th century opium chest... at least the equipment works!' and passing it onwards?

[@adAbsentia618]

​​​​@@lincolnhaldorsen5649fun fact? You love them? Actual facts: the opiates and opioids used across the world are derivatives of the paste/"Milk" of the Poppy plant (Papaver somniferum) not the opium plant. These processes often replace one or both of the phenol OH groups for better stereochemistry regarding the interactions with the kappa and/or mu opioid receptors (among others). Example being the relatively simple acetylation of opium to create heroin. Also, from a previous user, not fun to love them. Don't spread bad advice.

[@tcxnt5442]

You should note that the massacre of Foreign merchants in the 9th century(late Tang dynasty) in Guangzhou was led by a rebel leader Huangchao who captured the city. He also massacred most of China's elite families after he captured Changan. This event didn't Changed China's attitude toward foreign merchants and trade. Foreign communities contiued to exist in large numbers in the Song dynasty and they were welcomed by the Emperor.

[@jeffreylai6796]

I dunno if it’s deliberate missed out but the tributary system is actually mutual beneficial, while the tributary states send their tributes to china, ambassadors of these nations were given generous gifts of quality imperial-made silk and porcelain from the emperor in return to be brought back to their country (hence the exchange of goods/gifts), along with whatever titular recognition such as the King of Melaka etc and also diplomatic protection to militarily weaker states such the Sultanate of Melaka against the militarily stronger and more aggressive Siamese neighbour. Its not just simply collecting tribute and doing nothing, for the Chinese emperor its a grave disgrace to not return gifts, and a greater loss of face if the gifts given in return were not of higher value than the tributes received, because the emperor doesn’t want his empire to be shown as petty or being outdo by its own tributaries in terms of gifts (demonstration of wealth)

[@英文菜-u1r]

朝贡体系说白就是中央王朝花钱买面子，不仅需要加倍返还金钱物资，还要保护这些朝贡国

[@schroecat1]

What was given back was only the barest portion of what was given in tribute. Tributary systems make the worst of capitalism look downright beneficent.

[@Skyoats]

@@schroecat1 yea this guys bizarre chinese nationalism fueled defense of imperial exploitation is, considering the context, embarrassingly hypocritical

[@rabbitsforyang8273]

the biased representation is quite deliberate to promote NED talking points interesting how the Japanese daimyos fought among each other for the right to participate in "imperial exploitation" and "worst of capitalism"

[@potatosalad9085]

​@schroecat1 it was actually exploited by many of china's neighbors, a Japanese shogun would constantly send tributes since the return gift would be of greater value, this is because the tributary rulers were the "little brothers" of the "older brother" emperor

[@e09271]

Just discovered this channel, excited about binge watching everything STAT😊❤subscribed

[@johnronald9767]

Nice work, always great! I don’t know if it was just me but I swear I heard an echo a few times. It doesn’t matter though, editing such large videos, there’s bound to be an error. What matters is the quality of content and the quality was perfect!

[@beepbop6542]

@@justinrosenthal4000 lol

[@Sandi_shores_lands_fish]

This was a fascinating and comprehensive history lesson well done

[@spy_balloon]

Very good music choice, and prop for all your research

[@jamestonbellajo]

I can’t get enough of this China series, Jabzy. Thanks for this compilations Could someone please add up the number of estimate deaths from all major Chinese events starting with the First Opium War and ending with the Cultural Rebellion? I’m thinking it’s close to 400 million, which is incomprehensible.

[@20chocsaday]

Stalin would say it is a Statistic.

[@عليياسر-ذ5ب]

​@@20chocsadayWhen Bush talks about gangs killing Americans: These are just numbers

[@kdnladner93]

China having a population of 300 million since the 1800s is crazy to say. Only 2 countries have made it to that mark India and United States something it crossed in the 2000s. With the exception of global spanning empires no continental nation has achieved that number. The British and Japanese Empires had those numbers but it was only for a moment. Even if the Soviet Union/Russian Empire reunited they still wouldn’t have over 300 million.

[@maksim05makarov]

Советский Союз мог бы перегнать, но демократия пришедшая в 91 году устроила нас всем демографическую дыру сравнимую с второй мировой.

[@عليياسر-ذ5ب]

It seems that these are Gog and Magog

[@alexzhao377]

China has been finished one thing which I think European should learn…that is Unified.

[@polar3553]

实际没有达到 3 亿，或许最多只有1亿，当然也是但时人口最多的国家，毕竟汉族作为古代东亚文明的创造者，拥有这么多人口不奇怪，同时也有一些外族被赐予他们汉族人身份，东亚大部分国家的国名由中国天子赐予

[@polar3553]

包括 17 世纪中国依然是全球强国，但最终灭亡于制度的缺陷以及内乱，之后由清朝统治，清朝为外族！在西方人进入中国时，中国人实际上已经是清朝的奴隶，在清朝灭亡后，内战结束后，汉族再次建立了现代中国，汉族再次建立了自己的国家

[@abhyudayasinhchauhan6499]

Amazingly detailed and informative💯💯. Best

[@Kalicious79]

Wow. Very well researched and well done.

[@안예지]

Man, i still can’t believe this is all free. Thanks

[@EsseQuamViderity]

These are the coolest videos

[@rudolphbennett3988]

🎉🎉 excellent presentation, thank you 🎉

[@Uzair_Of_Babylon465]

Fantastic video keep it up you're doing amazing things 😁👍...

[@rexisnox577]

I really appreciate these documentary style videos.

[@Mike-ys4sr2023]

Thanks again for your video of Timeline on history of China

[@Nickster292]

These vids are great! Thank you!

[@isaiah8867]

this needs a bit more of the epic history flair to it. troop movements etc

[@Zickenlotto]

Good video, but I would love it if you added a timeline. By constantly having the current date you are talking about visible would help a lot.

[@quentonmillstid850]

Perfect to fall asleep to # monotone # dry # highschoolhistoryclassvibes

[@rickshawwheelchair]

"That nurachi is a really small guy" -Willi from Temple of Doom

[@emperorshowa8842]

Historical evaluation After the democratization of Taiwan, many surveys believe that Chiang Kai-shek's image in people's hearts has always been more negative than positive. However, nearly a third of Taiwanese had not experienced Chiang Kai-shek's rule. Their knowledge of Chiang Kai-shek comes from books and word of mouth from their elders. Perhaps because of the background of time and space at the time, everything Chiang Kai-shek did in Taiwan was what the Kuomintang once called a "necessary evil." Even Chiang Kai-shek, who passed away a long time ago, must face historical criticism and pay the price for everything that happened at the time. Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, located in the administrative center of Taipei City, has become the target of attacks by anti-KMT forces in every election. Now that the Democratic Progressive Party is in power again and is vigorously promoting transitional justice, Chiang Kai-shek's historical status has also been challenged again. The demolition of bronze statues and the removal of "Kong Jiang" is not uncommon. Perhaps Chiang Kai-shek never imagined that one day he would fall from a "great man" and become an unprecedented burden to the Kuomintang who had worked so hard during his life. The remaining memory of Taiwan is many scars that cannot be healed.

[@Lordlur]

Software you using for your videos? After effects?

[@maddiesmith7893]

Amazing Video! It would be really nice though if you would provide your sources. Not discounting the work you put in to the video at all, but as a historian I like to go and look at the sources myself for further reading.

[@Dataism]

mmmm, hour long video/podcast, My favourite!

[@k.k.c8670]

Hakkas and Cantonese are also Han people although some Cantonese might be more mixed

[@scott2452]

Elgin didn’t decide to burn the Summer Palace on a whim, it is worth mentioning the atrocities committed that it was in retaliation for. (And that it was a way to punish the aristocracy responsible for them in a way that couldn’t be just be passed on to the common people).

[@alexanderchenf1]

The Chinese who sought freedom joined the Manchu Banners. The Manchus who sought comfort joined the Chinese culture.

[@val1500]

do you post a list of the sources you use for your videos? thanks!

[@Derna1804]

The letter C in Pinyin is pronounced like "ts." So Cao Cao for example was Ts'ao Ts'ao in Wade-Giles, and is pronounced "ts-ow ts-ow" rather than "cow cow"

[@beepbop6542]

English people have a lot of trouble with that sound, because it does not exist in English. I know because I am bilingual Hungarian and the ts sound is very common in our language.

[@Derna1804]

@@beepbop6542 Phonetically it's not much of a challenge because while we don't use it as a letter, we have words like "it's" and "its." The continental 'E' sound, the "Lj" or P combos like "Pt" and "Ps" combinations tend to be more difficult for English speakers.

[@DianaTeo-s5f]

Who watched this for 3 hours and did not get tired?That’s my only question.

[@thecafcl8409]

Holy Kino. Can we get this for Europe and USA? Thanks

[@michaelstern5616]

Me who comes from a Russian Chinese Jewish family that was in China up until the 1940s.. harbin and Shanghai look into it…

[@ashtongaspar1541]

How do I keep waking up to these videos?

[@OrbitalAstronaut]

Ah, only the finest possible history content will do. 🎉

[@claudeyaz]

Chinese merchants acted similar to the European ones. But it wasn't regards to when they traded with places like Vietnam Korea, Japan, and even I think the Philippines. So we need to remember that no nation is solely a victim every history is complex

[@claudeyaz]

I am looking forward to watching this video thanks for the upload!

[@jry3270]

You have a good point and I try to make that point all the time to my woke acquaintance... Muslims, Chinese, East Indians, and yes...even black Africans ...conquered less advanced tribes around them and wiped out whole civilizations and cultures (Khoisan people for instance). Also to this day black Africans in the Congo enslave pygmies and treat them as second class citizens or an 'inferior' race. Every group on earth has a history of being victimized and being the aggressor, its just the way humanity works.

[@kahldiss2689]

Imperial china thought they are having a rip off in the tributary system, but they are actually giving more valuable items in return for the "tributes" they take.

[@عليياسر-ذ5ب]

​@@jry3270History: Britain and France are still ahead

[@jolojrdook1419]

@@jry3270lol no europe is very resource poor and They always had to invent radical racial theories to justify colonialism and genocide chinese simply had war with tribes that fought them They are nothing in comparison

[@op7519]

I want to add the subtitles, at least a part of them all. Can you make that pubblic to do so. (Maybe it's better if I translate that in Italian directly)

[@oddiethefox5832]

Chinese history is so interesting. Great documentary! And it's free!

[@SaltyChip]

I always s chuckle hearing the word “warlord.” Like, imagine someone that’s from another place. “Excuse me! can you help me find your local warlord in town? I’m new here and would love to pay my respects and check in. I also have a brother in law that I’d love to take his land off his hands!😊”

[@Henry-teach-Chinese-in-jokes]

Hope somebody recommend my videos to those who are interested in Chinese. I’m conscientious in creating funny way of teaching Chinese. I believe it can help those who want to learn Chinese. Chinese characters still retain their pictographic origins. Knowing what the characters look like originally can help understand the meanings and remember them. I’ve spent about 100,000 hours studying English humor and Western culture, and many years studying Chinese culture and jokes. My native language is Chinese.

[@Kalicious79]

Curious. Which of the Chinese languages, out of many, are you referring to?

[@Henry-teach-Chinese-in-jokes]

@@Kalicious79 simplified Chinese character

[@paxtoncargill4661]

From what i'm seeing here, the colonization of China started with the Qing dynasty. it seems like the Qing was just trying to focus on holding power and benefiting from their own control of China. This is why the Qing dynasty was making so many mistakes, it wasn't out of stupidity, it was out of shortsightedness and insecure control. This probably wouldn't have happened if the Ming dynasty continued to hold power.

[@nouhowlmao2809]

The ming were literally starving themself from progress in fear of literally every outsider literally anyone could have conquered them

[@gagamba9198]

You completely forgot about the importance of imported silver to the Ming dynasty. It first came from Japan and then from New Spain via the Galleon Trade. Due to excessive printing of paper currency by the Yuan and inherited by the early Ming, the economy had been destabilised. Ming introduced copper coins for domestic commerce and silver bullion for tax. But, China mined very little silver, and it really needed a lot of it. Running a dynasty is expensive. The shortfall of silver and the requirement tax be paid with it placed an enormous burden on the people. Japan proved to be an important stopgap, but relations between the two deteriorated due to piracy as Japan fell into the Sengoku Jidai (Warring States) era. The result was an over valuation of silver (relative to world price) in Ming. Domestically, Ming products where inexpensive (relative to world price). This was buy low, sell high on steroids. Traders with cheap overseas silver bought inexpensive Ming products that were sold overseas at great profit. New Spain's silver flowed into the state treasury and out of it into the corrupt palace eunuchs' purses, most notably Wei Zhongxian. Enormous sums. The first Ming emperor fretted that his descendants would misrule. To thwart this he established the Grand Secretariat, ministerial advisors who presented the emperor options to choose. They were to manage the emperor to prevent reckless misrule. This limited the emperor's power until the Wan-li emperor who in 1582 was able to force the Grand Secretariat to bend to his will after the senior grand secretary died. The result? The Wan-li emperor rapidly degenerated into a self indulgent and irresponsible despot. The remaining 38 years of his reign witnessed the full exhibition of his unbridled character: aloofness from government affairs, volatile temper, and extravagance. His aloofness allowed eunuch and military general corruption to reach new heights - remember all that silver? Their desire ran rampant at the cost of his people's flesh and blood, leaving them impoverished and putting the state in great peril. The consequence? Uprisings within the realm and external threats from the Mongols and Hideyoshi's two invasion of Korea with the intent to topple Ming (which required an expensive military operation to aid Korea). Soon after dealing with the samurai... the concurrence of the domestic uprising led by Li Zicheng and the Manchu invasion. From @5:09 to @11:47 you covered about 100 years of history of the Manchu conquest. Fewer than seven minutes is woefully inadequate. I get the feeling you wanted to rush off to the 19th century and the 17th century was getting in your way. I commend you for mentioning the Great Clearance, which is often ignored in other presentations. Still, the disruption to masses of people by this event warrants more than a sentence or two. This was amongst China's most productive land cleared of people. And they can no longer fish. Principal source of protein lost. Imagine if all the Americans living along the west coast were ordered to uproot their lives, to move 25km inland, and rebuild their lives (in an area already densely populated). This would be catastrophic. And the Dzungar genocide 'which often goes unmentioned'. It's a genocide and you devoted about 3 sentences to it. I think a problem arises when one decides to start a presentation with a tidy date such as 17th century, 1900, or the '90s. Events are not so tidily constrained by the calendar. History of China from Late Ming to the Fall of Qing is better suited.

[@darthcheney7447]

"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, It Will Be Brought To You Live" -Gil Scott Heron

[@francisnavarette1583]

Thank you so much for this. It would be awesome if you placed some time stamps.

[@Kgoki890]

I wish I can hear the vision events from the Chinese now. Thanks this gives a person an idea now I want the vision of events from the Chinese perspective of events. Western narrative and written information is usually from the Western vision of events.

[@user-yf9ku1tl6b]

what is the background music?

[@largeman9189]

what long form project are you thinking you might work on now that you have finished up Africa and China?

[@Seven_Leaf]

China's trade system = "Want's yours is mine, what's mine is mine."

[@christophe7070]

Now let's start from the spring and autumn. In all seriousness though, thank you so much for this video

[@EricEchelberger-t7b]

Try highlighting and labeling at least the areas of focus. Also fell asleep several times. Great video though.

[@MrMeatman11]

Very interesting. Great video I hope one day someone will do the history of the hun yung guy..

[@LargeGanny]

Sorry I didn't catch that. Could you say that again?

[@taylorshipman1045]

Britain really took the condescending tone personally

[@iamsheel]

This wasn't the best thing to sleep with. I had strange dreams

[@Cyberpunk_2023]

aw bruh i just found this for sleep thinking hell yehaw dude it's 3hrs long. what dreams did you have?

[@iamsheel]

@@Cyberpunk_2023 don't remember

[@scott2452]

20:47 Just because a leader says that they are self-sufficient and would not benefit from foreign trade does not make it so…we wouldn’t trust North Korea making the same statement.

[@Alcatraz194]

I put a hello neighbor critic video at night to sleep and woke up to this

[@StarecrownSummer]

I don't know why but in europe china history is just so underrated

[@Jonobumb]

The Chinese put in quite a fair amount of military power and almost emptied their treasury to intervene in the Imjin war, most of the land battles were faught by the Chinese/Korean coalition, this is especially true at the early phase of the war when the Korean army collapsed, and the Korean king has to escape to the Korean/Chinese border to call for help.

[@sarah07290]

Re: communist revolution in Mongolia. What is meant when you say that it was aligned with the Russian Bolsheviks as opposed to the Chinese communists? Were the Chinese communists significant/relevant enough of a force to even be considered for alignment? I know you probably won't reply considering how many comments there are but thought I'd try to voice my confusion.

[@orktv4673]

1:47:50 This is getting out of hand, now there are two of them.

[@danielioja8904]

Amazing video , in depth explanation and I’m sure you worked for a long time on this video , only thing i may ask is that you put names on the map , as it’s really hard to keep track of everything, but that might be just my problem , thank you for the great content

[@kyzou3717]

I get this is a summary. But the amount and degree of inaccuracies in this is shocking barely 10 minutes in.

[@We_are_Koreans]

5:25 14:48 The map you made was completely wrong. Explain why you keep bringing the wrong map. 1.The Qing Dynasty did not intend to occupy Joseon. 2. The Qing Dynasty called Joseon the Joseon Dynasty(朝鮮國). Just like Japan, Vietnam, and Ryukyu.(日本國, 越南國, and 琉球國) 國 is a Chinese character that means country. 3. Joseon and Qing had a border dispute in the 1700s.(백두산정계비) 4. Even after Joseon lost its war with the Qing Dynasty, Korean did not have a Qing hairstyle. 5. Even official maps of Korea and China do not indicate Joseon as part of the Qing Dynasty looks like Tibet.

[@huli7963]

我们汉人永远不会忘记满清强加给我们的屈辱。

[@Motofanable]

😂you literarly root out manchus, why spite

[@WildsDreams45]

I've studied European history, African history, Asian history and North American history and the thing I learned from all that is that when something is wrong with the economy people are quick to blame whoever the minorities are. 🤷

[@عليياسر-ذ5ب]

Britain: My brother, drugs are a good thing, believe me

[@surprise-xg8pk]

英国入侵清朝的时候,百姓只是在观战,甚至和英国人做生意.因为本质上汉族和满族是对立的,满族人生活在满族城池.你咕噜

[@mojewjewjew4420]

Because its true

[@BrainrotOf87]

Why do so many of the lines in the later half of the video keep repeating? It makes me feel like I have schizophrenia!

[@gamerforever4837]

How much more advanced, could humanity be, if people didn't come up with fake religions and fake gods.

[@carsonpurtell4771]

What is the background music throughout the video?

[@JabzyJoe]

Nevada city

[@NapoleonBonaparte05]

What culture has survived for 4000 years. its unbelievable how far the chinese culture has come.

[@عليياسر-ذ5ب]

Pharaohs and Babylonians and Persians Aryans laugh 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Light_Yagami66]

What is tge background music?

[@j_hillingsworth_v895]

Good to know that China also has a version of "the south with rise again". 1:18:30

[@alexhubble]

I can only say this is a whole bunch of history which I had only the sketchiest knowledge. 👍

[@jawvees2585]

Perspective changer