Peking - Ghosts of Empire 1931

[@wiskasIO]

Seeing that cigarette recycling boy broke my heart, I did the same trade growing dirt poor in Mexico City. I hope that like me his life improved over time. I want to leave it like that because we all know what happens later in China, sad.

Poor you! I felt sorry for you.

[@mitchjay4940]

Would love to hear your story

[@mitchjay4940]

Very inspiring

[@magdalenevillarliberg6104]

I would love to hear your story.

[@davidhull1481]

What happened later?

[@perseuswong6864]

This needs to be viewed by 21st century Chinese teenagers. If you think your life is hard now, be grateful you weren't a teenager in 1930s China. Your future prospect was to die from war, famine or poverty.

[@dfghj241]

lol i don't think they consider their life very hard in comparison to the past. considering that whole business of china being the second super power in the world and whatnot.

[@lzl4226]

That's not how humans work..... their life sucked, but it's accepted reality to them. If it were the other way around... if you plucked one of them from the video and dropped them in the center of Beijing today, their reality will be shattered and they will not be as grateful as you think.

[@hduc2000]

Fascinating video with significantly historical values, thanks for posting it. Vignettes of lifes of ordinary people in Peking 1930s. BTW, the title showed that the film maker was Deane Dickason, who was he ?.

[@wellsmemphis8170]

pro tip : watch series on Flixzone. I've been using them for watching loads of movies these days.

[@nikocallan6470]

@Wells Memphis yup, been watching on flixzone for months myself =)

[@davidcummings5984]

Wow..........Peking the Buildings are so beautiful ...So sad

[@Nine-Signs]

The ghosts of empire we see in the video are unbeknownst to the narrator at the time. The Ghosts of western empires in China.

[@nadasou]

The year after, Japanese started to invade China in the north east.... and then to the south! The undeclared invasion was ended in 1945, when the second atomic bomb served Japan!

[@techovore]

The title says 1931. But the timeline should be early, should be around 1910s, the pigtails means before collapse of the Qing dynastg.

[@Potjenjks2988]

Even though Queue was enforced by the Qing Dynasty, you can see that the soldiers on 6:03 are flying a variation of the Kuomintang flag, with what seems to be civilians walking inside of the forbidden city (a no-go if it were before 1912).

[@claudedupont8233]

Most of the budhist temple were destroy in Pekin during Mao ?

[@taniasouth]

Beautiful footage. Love from *New Zealand* 🇳🇿

[@nomadnametab]

one of the production crew was named Crapp. i think i would have changed that.

[@cosmoray9750]

1:17 Notice the swastika on the buildings wall..above the peoples head. The German use the symbol and bastardized it.

[@elijahbenjamin8057]

The swatika is an ancient Indo Aryan symbol, which was brought to India by the fore fathers of the northern Indian conquerors. It was later assimilated with the Buddhist religion and thus, centuries later when China accepted Buddhism as a mainstream religion during the Tang dynasty, the symbol came with it. So yes, the connection is there and the Nazis, however distant, had the same source as what we see in China.

[@bay2055]

3.45. He inherited the profession from his father and the STROP from his grandfather. The narrator is humorous.

[@Spoonrrr]

Foot binding was the worst thing a young child had to go through. Glad they band it

[@smradlaveponozky1627]

i am sure there are and were worst things in life than that

[@Spoonrrr]

@@smradlaveponozky1627 im pretty sure there is and is still happening now, but for them to think that is attractive is just stupid

[@davidhull1481]

Yeah, damn those bands. I wonder if they used rubber banneds?

[@HuiQiu-n1h]

@@davidhull1481 no, just cloth that are wrapped TIGHT!

[@davidhull1481]

@@HuiQiu-n1h Mr or Miss Tang- I was making a pun, based on a misspelling in the answer. This is probably something that you wouldn’t pick up on if your English language comprehension is not fully developed.

[@lichadec6654]

La Chine, c'est une grande civilation de 5000 ans, une culture d’une grande finesse. J’adore cette civilisation très cultivée et qui n’a pas attaqué ni bombardé ni détruit d’autre pays, ni détruit d’autre culture. Merci pour ce film reportage très instructif.

[@stephanieprice224]

This in Illinois

[@benwong007]

Ghosts of Empire ??

[@yutaoli9484]

Peking/Beijing was not the capital of China from 1928 to 1949

[@huanewcentry1683]

FirstName LastName you are absolutely right .this reporter didn't understand Chinese culture at all.

[@MrJm323]

@@huanewcentry1683 ....What didn't he understand?

[@lequanghieu5133]

I think he's meant the Qing Dynasty?

[@ngoclongvu3944]

When I click on the thumb up, the number of likes is 888.

[@arjanterveen9534]

I love the china's culture....in every part of daylive....!

[@周骏-d2n]

how could it be possibel that ppl still had pigtails after 1930

[@JKMT]

6:11 lol Taiwan flag.

[@davidhull1481]

Taiwan was part of Japan then

[@jockey-shifter]

its republic of china flag (after lose the civil war this china only have taiwan now)

[@descendant0fdragons]

It's not Taiwan, it the nationalist party Kwo min tang flag, that later fled to taiwan. And never did the KMT sided or ''part'' of Empire of Japan. Only the island taiwan was from japan, but later KMT fled there and control it till now. Get your history facts right ppl!

[@cheungallen6964]

why's ghost?

[@musAKulture]

because qing had fallen

[@MatheusFernandes-xf4zm]

A china de 1931 é o Brasil de 2020

[@goognamgoognw6637]

Obsequious and arrogant narrator. It gives an idea of american mentality in 1930. Not too different from now.

[@beijingbond]

It was of it's time. Don't forget that.

[@dolandlydia]

What exactly do you take offense to in the video?

[@marcduchamp5512]

Well did China document its own history with films? Or they were only able to paint and draw with calligraphy instead. What appeared to be backward was backward can you deny?

[@goognamgoognw6637]

@@marcduchamp5512 It is all relative, you appear backward to me based on your comment. Technology is not always an advancement. You want a contemporary example , the smartphone. To most it's an object of arrogant social status display, to a whole generation it has replaced normal interaction and created crooked over kids who do not know non-induced emotions.

[@Tigerjaws]

It’s okay, soon will none American down fall if trump continues the presidency beyond 2021

[@greatday809]

It’s called Beijing.

[@Blorgus.]

In english yes. Other countries still call it Peking.

[@jwchong632]

那时北京，今日已无其模样，不得不让人浮想连篇。

[@seomarie3122]

Originally, Beijing existed in North America.

[@davidhull1481]

Huh?

[@rencechannel2240]

Idiot!

[@HattieMcDanielonaMoon]

Lol what?

[@junyixu4245]

Beijing peking

[@beastpodz418]

How is this scary .-.

[@huanewcentry1683]

Ghosts empire ? Exaggerating title.

[@Nine-Signs]

I'd say time had to progress for it to be accurate. The ghosts of empire we see in the video are unbeknownst to the narrator at the time. The Ghosts of western empires in China.

[@Cent4man]

Ghost of the Qing Dynasty. The Qing were not Chinese. They were occupiers from Manchuria who invade China, destroying the Chinese Ming dynasty.

[@tuforu4]

NO PUPPETS IN AFRICA.

[@Gfjg-dh6om]

จีนเนรคุณต่อราชวงศ์ต้องพินาศ

[@hoppinggnomethe4154]

Your comment is ignorant.

[@hacknf]

民国 辉煌年代可惜昙花一现

[@hoppinggnomethe4154]

True

[@mitchjay4940]

Chop suey not real chinese

[@descendant0fdragons]

The dish nowadays is not indeed. It transformed a lot! But this narrator translated it directly from Chinese! Literally: left overs vegetables 雜菜 mixed vegetable is actually in that era (era of humiliation), everything you can scavenged from the ground basically.

[@仪光]

那时候的国军好歹还有点样子，不像现在

[@jwchong632]

要不是日本侵华，估计也没老共什么事。

[@禾-q8b]

@@jwchong632 或者说日本晚些年侵华，共产党也会被扼杀，历史就是这么具有偶然性

[@arjanterveen9534]

It's see alot of the comen chinees karacter to take a bird fore housepat,instade a pitbull fore a walk...

[@齊藤美昭]

日本では路上、床屋は無い!まだまだ!未開だね!

[@Huutomusic]

loflmao what is this kind of music WTF hahhaha