EMPEROR QIANLONG DOCUMENTARY PART 2 - QIANLONG BIOGRAPHY

PART 1 : • EMPEROR QIANLONG DOCUM...
Emperor Qianlong was the longest living Emperor of Chinese history. In this History of China video, 7th of the Qing Emperors Series, I expose Qianlong biography, his works such as the Ten Great campaigns and his support of Jesuits in China, as well as the British Macartney Embassy to China.
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♫ MUSIC ♫
Dialogue of the Lumberjack and Fisherman
Qing palace music
Shadows of War - Total War Three Kingdoms
The Will of Tengri - Total War Attila
Fire & Ice - Total War Attila
Saung U ba - Traditional Asian Music
Wu Zetian War Theme - Civlization V
Restless Natives
Lotus Lane - The Loyalist
🎬 VIDEO CREDITS 🎬
Qianlong Dynasty (2001)
The Legend of Jiaqing (2005)
📜 MAIN SOURCES 📜
Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period (1644-1912) , (1943), Arthur W. Hummel, Sr.
Timeline of the Ming & Qing Palace Events (The Palace Museum website)
Qing emperor series

[@ComradeHellas]

Probably the best English speaking channel that specializes on Chinese history

[@watchman835]

Second that.

[@strasbourgeois1]

Third this. 😅

[@mariusmatei2946]

Yep, very likely (at least, in scope)!

[@mint8648]

That burmese king was such a chad

[@jasatotakouzeno4674]

Hearing about the roots of the Opium war from the Chinese side, it actually makes sense that they would refuse British demands and uphold Qing traditions. I’ve mostly watched western perspectives of the Opium war, but the Qing persoective along with the context of the Qianlong emperor’s actions really makes it seem that the British are just petty they are not getting a good deal off the Chinese. Thanks for the video and keep up the good work!

[@History_of_China]

Absolutely! For the Qing government and elites, Westerners were somewhat considered as barbarian merchants. Thank you! Will do :)

[@outisnemo555]

Unhappy over a bad trade deal. Somethings never change.

[@mariusmatei2946]

There, really, isn't "a British side and a Chinese side" to the causes of the Opium Wars: by 1830, the British trade deficit with China had ballooned to gargantuan proportions; the British acknowledged that, as did the Chinese (it, really, is as simple as that)!

[@mariusmatei2946]

​@@History_of_Chinaand the evidence of that "somewhat" barbarism was in the trade deficits the Europeans (the British, especially) had raked with China, as the trade between China, and Europe was (more or less) one-sided: China had a lot of the merchandise the Europeans wanted, while there was hardly anything of interest (to the Chinese) the Europeans had to sell.

[@shenzhenfactory2713]

​@@History_of_China开门，这是来自“文明”人的毒品。你们必须要和我们自由贸易

[@philodendron6]

Made my day, perfect synchronisation between images and narrative. The voice is ideal for such a presentation. Being able to summarise such a complex history indicates a savant knowledge of the subject.

[@trynottolaughguy8022]

I'm glad this video is back up. You create a great source of chinese history had how it has shaped China into what it was today.

[@QalOrt]

Finally able to finish my marathon of your Qing Dynasty Emperors!

[@catmate8358]

Qianlong's and his successors' refusal to trade with the West proved fatal to China. By the end of the 18th century Europe had a lot to offer to China (science and technology) in exchange for silk and porcelain. Missing the train of industrialization and modernization cost China dearly. Getting stuck in the old ways will do that to anyone.

[@outisnemo555]

Qing army: gets destroyed by Burma Qianlong: I guess it’s a win?

[@vonVince]

Thanks for making all these videos: I'm looking forward to seeing more ^_^

[@History_of_China]

Thanks!

[@mjl.9-19]

Excellent! Qianlong's reign is fascinating.

[@yousefshahin2654]

I was waiting for this for a looooooooooong time

[@rutraraptor678]

환상적인 비디오! 매일 중국 역사를 구독하게 해주신 천국에 감사드립니다. 나는 중국을 좋아합니다!

[@deltahat2625]

where is the scene at 14:20 from?

[@minhquangiang620]

when ”土司“ came up I almost choked, it's pronounced and looks like "吐司“ which means "toast"

[@History_of_China]

lol

[@robertschlesinger1342]

Excellent video. Very interesting, informative and worthwhile video.

[@History_of_China]

Thank you! Glad you liked it!

[@TheKeithvidz]

So happy I'm first, when your message of YT blocking the vid reached me.

[@gierhardtsloan8502]

After studying centuries of Chinese history, the current Chinese regimes austere posture on "civil liberties" start to... For the lack of a better term, make sense. The "re-education " of the xinjiang ugyhurs, the heavy handidness putting down the Hong Kong protest, strict social surveillance and the credit score system to keep the populous in line. Its a large diverse country whose history is littered with rebellions and strife caused by... well any and everyone at some point. The CCP's current MO is cruel... but as any unbiased patron of history and learning can agree.. There's a method to the madness.

[@naomicrispin697]

I love tour videos about chinese history. I wonder if you could do a documentary about Heshen 😊.

[@HanginInSF]

Such an amazing history

[@markboudreau1410]

Thank you once again!❤️

[@richardyoung377]

Qing Dynasty, large population, UK forced by gunboat to force China into drug addiction, 2 opium wars, so that opium grown in India to be distributed to the large Chinese population, made huge profits to pay for Chinese tea, silks vases etc.

[@tennisguyky]

China’s big mistake was not realizing the trend of modernization and the changing nature of trade, and not reaching some accommodation with the UK in the 1790s as Japan did with the Western powers in the 1870s. In doing so, it may have maintained its territorial sovereignty, and avoided the colonial embarrassments of the 19th century. Now of course, things have come full circle, with China again having risen to preeminence in the world as a major power.

[@ihl0700677525]

I think the Manchu ruling elites (especially the influential Conservative faction) just can not accept that, since that would delegitimize their right to rule over China. They can only adopt Western military (which they did), but *NOT* Western ideology, political system, economic system, legal system, or social structure. Ofc as in many other cases (e.g. Egypt, Ottoman Turkey, Persia, Ethiopia, etc), modernizing your military was not enough. You need to overhaul and adopt modern (Western) system wholesale if you want to remain competitive in late 18th century onward.

[@ffhhv-f2w]

那是怪清朝太白痴了，不发展火器，如果发展的火器，那就有人造他的反，宁愿被殖民，他们都不想被人造反，这是最恶心的，搞得民国时代，中国跟西方国家将近，落后了100年，我们中国也讨厌清朝统治者的无脑，又落后又自大天天把自己比喻成天朝上国，看不起西方国家的工业革命

[@lyhthegreat]

qianlong was losing battles most of his time as emperor wth lol..i thought the 10 great campaign referred to victories...his generals were pretty incompetent too, its like they just threw large numbers of men at their enemies and expect themselves to win...

[@johnvonshepard9373]

Nice it's back.

[@Urlocallordandsavior]

4:45 The Burmese king was Hshinbyushin, Alaungpaya's son.

[@Luboman411]

Nice to know that mighty China, at the peak of her military power in the mid-1700s, also met horrible, humiliating defeats fighting small countries in Southeast Asia. The 70,000 dead Chinese soldiers in Burma is a comparable number to the 50,000 dead American soldiers in Vietnam. Those Southeast Asians can certainly fight! It's not only the United States and France to have been humiliated in this fashion. LOL...

[@lyhthegreat]

the southeast asian countries are not as easy to conquer imo, because it's unnaturally humid and wet, it's easy for the troops to be stricken with diseases before they even get to on the frontlines, kublai khan tried expand southwards too and was met with the same fate...the weather and the forests were their natural deterrence against attackers just like how winter was for the russians.

[@alangioro]

mainly because of the disease

[@micahistory]

amazing video. I love this channel

[@Stalinsorganist]

Attacking on Tet seems to be a Vietnamese pastime

[@hado1916]

Haha. I think intruders liked to celebrate Tet with Vietnamese people.

[@agent45625]

There's also a series of great videos about the Sino-Burmese War, though from the Burmese perspective too.

[@Kevin-cm5kc]

Honestly man most of the 'ten great campaigns' are painful to listen to. We keep saying that Qianlong's enemies 'devised a cunning strategy' to defeat his force that was 4x larger. But surely they didn't all have legendary generals better than hannibal barca. It sounds more like the Chinese troops/ generals were just consistently and shockingly incompetent. How do you 'overstretch your front lines' against a force 4 times smaller?? Several times, no less. Not even a one off goof.

[@CaptainGrimes1]

Will you do one for the Ming Emperors?

[@History_of_China]

I plan to! I will just make a few videos on the Yuan dynasty before :)

[@hiimryan2388]

What show is 14:20 from

[@coQsI9]

Il me semble avoir déjà vu cette vidéo, un peu simple. Serait-ce un coup du tyran Wojcicki ? A bon entendeur !

[@buddhidev7877]

The latter half of Qianlong period was the decline. He's quite incompetent himself. His success was because of his grandfather and his father. He himself was lucky for his longevity but because of that the Qing was downfall. His successors, the 2nd prince and the 5th prince, were passed away before him. If they, especially the 5th prince, didn't die, may be everything would be changed in a good way.

[@DarthZealous]

What’s the painting or print at time index 17.35? It seems to show Koreans before a Manchu Emperor?

[@History_of_China]

It's a Qing dynasty painting representing deposed emperor Lê Chiêu Thống, alongside being received by Chinese officials in his flight to China. The two officials next to him are dressed in confucian robes similar to Korea's or the Ming dynasty's.

[@Shineon83]

Historically, the Chinese have been pretty successful when fighting other Chinese-however, fighting non-Chinese (Mongols, Burmese, Japanese, Kasacks), much less so.

[@hiimryan2388]

Honestly this is mostly because we hear more about the failures rather than anything

[@Shineon83]

@@hiimryan2388 No. It’s historical FACT….Your hearing “about the failures” merely proves my point.… Despite the CCP’s half-century habit of rewriting Chinese history, no amount of creative writing changes facts : China’s martial history has been less than mediocre.

[@hiimryan2388]

@@Shineon83 if possible we can argue somewhere else as it’s less than ideal to argue on KZbin

[@hiimryan2388]

@@Shineon83 I’m just saying this, the fact that China conquered all the way to its size and more or less maintain its land since the Han dynasty shows that it in fact was able to fight foreigners. The fact that the outsiders only conquered China twice (compared to other old civilizations like Egypt and Sumer this is very outstanding) and that the Han people were able to reestablish them after the event shows that this really isn’t the case

[@yux.tn.3641]

these 10 great campaigns sounds more like 10 great disasters...

[@TheKeithvidz]

watching this history tale again, I conclude rejecting the _Macartney Embassy_ increased China's backwardness in many things compared to the West, made bare in the coming Opium Wars. 23:37

[@pmhernane3903]

Wow, the Yanxi Palace series that I watch is quite accurate.

[@Mrs.miriam]

Even that character "fu Heng" is in the series But he was not the emperor's brother in law there.he was just a very loyal military man of the emperor

[@sofiad.698]

@@Mrs.miriam he was the brother of the empress fuca though

[@MarksmanSpecialist]

wow cant believe all these event taking place and america finally got their declaration of independence

[@lucasd2897]

Shout out to my boy Vincent

[@ctwasua5252]

He Shen was Qianlong's gay lover. That's how he became the most powerful and corrupt official.

[@hiimryan2388]

We have no proof of this. The closest thing to this are old Beijing folk tales that qianlong may have believed he shen was a reincarnated version of his father’s former concubine.

[@yux.tn.3641]

22:04 sort of sounds like modern nowadays...

[@buddhidev7877]

The Burmese one shouldn't be counted to be honest

[@ldl1477]

It seems to be the "century of humiliation" was a lot longer. The ethnic Han people were conquered and ruled by the Manchu for a couple centuries before the West showed up. So its more like three centuries of humiliation...

[@butbunwin3107]

This is false information. Manchu and han are one. They look the same unlike europe which lose different.

[@gvairsoft5994]

@@butbunwin3107 not true and a somewhat racist / ignorant idea. The Manchu and their Jurchen ancestors are quite genetically and culturally different. They spoke entirely different languages coming from unrelated language families.

[@flowermagnolia4551]

why do they keep committing suicide

[@DevjKaiser]

Better than the alternative 😂

[@hiimryan2388]

If you kill yourself you don’t drag the rest of your family down with you. And also suicide from your own hands is often better than punishment

[@josedln3040]

Nice 1 year later

[@NikoChristianWallenberg]

....the original video was removed by KZbin - this is a reupload.

[@helengao6093]

@@NikoChristianWallenbergwhy

[@Brandonhayhew]

Myanmar is similar to its modern day problems

[@anzm89]

Win is a win, no matter if china is prepared or not! They had an army twice larger than Vietnam has for crying out loud.

[@ShiiiJie13]

If only QianLong didn't close China's door, probably the dynasty will do better & not end so soon.

[@Shineon83]

….For sheer arrogance, it’s hard to beat Qianlong’s letter to King George III….I’m rather surprised you didn’t read the letter in its entirety, as it perfectly illustrates how insular the Emperor/Chinese had become, and how their lack of curiosity & arrogance led to an over-inflated sense of their own power, thereby jeopardizing the security of their own people…. The letter from King George, btw, was incredibly measured and diplomatic….As the greatest naval power in the world, they certainly didn’t have to be (and the King could have chosen to take great offense of Qianlong’s very insulting language, but didn’t (which shows that, like the Chinese today, diplomacy & tact isn’t exactly a strength of theirs)….

[@hiimryan2388]

Were you dropped as a child

[@Shineon83]

….In other words : “I have no facts with which to argue your points-so instead, I’ll insult you”…. I’m not Chinese, so I’m not into creative writing……No “face” to save, or nationalistic pride to spread, results in historical fact.

[@hiimryan2388]

@@Shineon83 do you wanna debate? I’m down for that

[@History_of_China]

A few corrections : at 04:48 the Burmese king was in fact Hsinbyushin, not his father Alaungpaya who had already died. at 15:22 Fukkang'an's father, Fuheng, was not the general who committed suicide in Burma (that was Mingrui, his nephew). Fuheng died of malaria contracted in Burma in 1770. Also this video is a reupload, as the original was blocked by youtube...

[@QuizmasterLaw]

My biggest obstacle isn't understanding the Chinese language, or culture; it's taking in it's massive history, because there is so much of it. IF you have a synopsis of Chinese history video, say 15-30 minutes, please link. If you don't... i bet it would get lots of views.

[@AGS363]

"blocked yesterday" Was a reason given?

[@userlks]

Thank you so much! I was quite disappointed when I tried to watch part 2 and realised it was blocked. I seldom subscribe but this is such a great channel so I just had to subscribe. Good job!

[@yousefshahin2654]

KZbin is as incompetent as Emperor Guangxu

[@mint8648]

great video

[@HistoryOfRevolutions]

"When government is carried out properly, people feel close to the leadership and think little of dying for it" -Du Mu (杜牧)

[@QuizmasterLaw]

you seem like a thumb on the back of the blade and strike upward kind fellow

[@hancehanson4000]

I know you're extremely busy creating the videos of this series, and scholarly-studies as well; ...but i was wondering if you might be able to, at some point, make a short/'quickie' video about the history of the Chinese-queue. (e.g.: was it a Manchu/Qing [or Jurchen] invention/tradition, or does it go way-further-back in chinese history?... what was it's purpose/what did it represent?... what did either cutting-one's/or keeping-one's signify?... were there any strange or harsh laws regarding the maintenance, keeping, or grooming of the queue?... any drastic-penalties for not keeping it? [execution/banishment]... when did the tradition/law officially end?... do queues still persist anywhere presently? [Re-enactors/high-fashion/super-traditionalists/unbroken-wearing-since-ancient-times]?... is the Chinese-queue related-to at all/or, did it influence the wearing of queues in the American-revolutionary-times/or, the tradition of British sailors wearing [& *tarring] queues) Essentially; the [most]-complete-history of the Chinese-queue, from creation, ...to extinction; and everything in-between. (I realise this might be too off-topic; but the more i watch your videos--- the more i become intrigued about this little piece of Chinese history/fashion?/tradition--- and it's meaning and place amidst Chinese history as a whole... [or, at least Especially during the Qing].) Anyhow... whether you're able to address this in a video sometime or not--- I am a HUGE-fan of your channel and content; [& because of it, Chinese-history!]... and if you've read this far---- even That would be satisfying!... Keep Up the Great-Work & Wonderful-Channel; Best Regards, -Hance

[@mefitzgerald]

I would enjoy a video like that as well 😊

[@VoDucQuang]

Thank you for reuploading this video! I've really enjoyed the Qing dynasty series. I wonder if you will continue onwards with the Republican era and the Warlord period. Best wishes to you.

[@ElBandito]

Manchu invasion of Burma seemed to be as disastrous as the Mongol invasion of Vietnam, 500 years earlier.

[@alabastertheunicorn3204]

Jungles are notoriously difficult terrain to invade

[@nathanpas6743]

Il video è finalmente tornato! Che grande notizia! Lunga vita al mio amico (non a Susan Wojcicki). Ci vediamo questo fine settimana nella capitale!

[@thewisetzar5363]

About time we got some East Asian history videos on youtube.

[@kryts27]

Ghurkas are legendary tough fighters and soldiers

[@helengao6093]

During the 18th century, the western world were mostly armed with flintlock muskets and stuff. But the Qing were still using bows, swords, spears, crossbows, and matchlocks that time. However, some Qing soliders were armed with modern weaponry but the numbers were about 1 or 2 percent of the whole Qing army.

[@starkillerdude1914]

KZbin Destroys Awesome Chinese History Video Europe, Japan and Chinese Communist : Finally a worthy opponent our battle will be legendary

[@cristhoperdelvalle9781]

😧😯😲😨😱 El emperador Qianlong (1711 - 1799) (1er m. 1727 - 1748) (2nd m. 1734 - 1766) (3er m. 1745 - 1775) (em. 1735 - 1796) (hon. 1796 - 1799), tuvo el reinado más largo de toda la historia de China, 60 años, además de varios meses de jure (en la ley) y 63 años, aparte de varios meses de facto (en la práctica), además de ser tener la vida más larga de cualquier emperador chino con 87 años.

[@iwatchDVDsonXbox360]

24:43 But what about guns? I don't remember who, but someone wrote back to UK that Qing weapons were outdated, but if that so then why they won't sell them new ones? Up until that point (and after that) europeans were selling guns to everybody and their mother, why they decided to not do it here?

[@oddda5956]

So the Qing got the OG Têt Offensive

[@vitorpereira9515]

It takes one barbarian to known one Qianlong!

[@ComradeHellas]

Where did you get the 300/450 million number, I searched into population censuses and China didn't reach 300 million until the 1800s and 450 million until the 1850/1900ss

[@auudreyw]

love your videos

[@History_of_China]

Thanks!

[@sangyinmedia]

I watched this channel the whole week nonstop and I can say , this is my favorite channel. Wish you could also do other Ming emperors line Zhi Di .

[@History_of_China]

Thank you so much! I'm nearly done with Hongwu's reign, and will cover Zhu Yunwen (Jianwen) and then Zhu Di (Yongle). Stay tuned!

[@anguscovoflyer95]

you should talk about the history of the communist period of china

[@kryts27]

The Qing Burma canpaigns demonstrates China's land expansionism over 2000 years. It's rather like the classical Roman Empire this way (without quite the same degree of the military professionalism; a lot of militia and conscripts in the army of China). The Qing Burma campaign also demonstated the poor performance of the Qing army against organised kingdoms like Burma and Vietnam at the periphery of China

[@isaacasunciongallardo9781]

Next documentary about life of bo Xilai

[@DevjKaiser]

15:20 Wait a minute, you said that Fuheng committed suicide in the Burma campaign when discussing his son Fuk’anggan, but Fuheng died from malaria in Beijing. It was Mingrui, Fuheng’s nephew/Fuk’anggan’s cousin, that committed suicide. 😅

[@History_of_China]

You're right, I got mixed up, so I made a correction post. Fukkang'an's father, Fuheng, was not the general who committed suicide in Burma (that was Mingrui, his nephew). Fuheng died of malaria contracted in Burma in 1770. Hope that clears things :)

[@boanzhou-tj8tm]

明瑞也不是自杀，受伤后原地去世的

[@bernardfinucane2061]

Very interesting, thanks

[@History_of_China]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@narbttseren9778]

It sounds like about history of Manchus rather than history of China. Those Manchu emperors had great will and power to conquer other nations, but they are shortsighted about their own survival. Nowadays, Manchus are disappeared from the face of the earth.

[@alexsun2604]

you must be kidding! today especially in the northeast part of China, over 10million Manchus live there. even in the Qing dynasty, most of the officers are Han and the country is governed by Han culture that's also why the Yuan dynasty is considered a Chinese dynasty. By the way, China has never been a single nation country. nowadays, there are 56 nations in china, including Zhuang 1617.88M Manchu 1068.23M Hui 981.68M Miao 894.01M Uighurs 839.94M etc.