Pre WW2 China: along the Yangtze river to Shanghai

[@laumark4573]

Amazing film. I can see what my hometown looks like hundred years ago. Thanks for share!

[@KennethTabor]

amazing.thanks for posting so many interesting video clips. the change is so drastic. make me miss my time in china.

[@emmettjulius7888]

InstaBlaster

[@xkn8147]

Amazing film. Thank you for uploading this.

[@ramanashiu4744]

Wonderful what you are doing here, all the clips chosen by you.

[@timchan100]

So glad that the comment section of this valuable footage collection is not infested with online trolls. Thank you so much Michael for sharing this video with us on KZbin

[@ursulawayne9384]

Those who suffer and those blessed to even have clothing. Difficult life throughout the centuries. 😪

[@xingfenzhen]

When I was young (1980s) veggie farmers still water and fertilize plants in the same way as 1:20. But now, they just hose them down with sprinklers. More efficient and less labor intensive sure, but also wastes far more water and hence the frequent water shortages. You gain some, but you also loose some.

[@kenbibi7631]

Have u seen video recently of an elderly couple ploughing their land the ancient way? They look hungry. What have the CCP done?

[@joey4345]

In fact, the darkest time of china.

[@andyxia3346]

its interesting ,,,i just spent lots money for the gym to do the same thing

[@xingfenzhen]

+Andy Xia Seriously, gyms should generate electricity to meet our energy needs. Hamster wheels too. Lots of energy being wasted.

[@user-sl4rh9gl5e]

go out exercise, don't pay money, fresh air, comfortable

[@papabear229]

The Nature is your gym :)

[@batili3594]

路漫漫其修远兮，吾将上下而求索。吾辈当志强不息。

[@東京の工程師好熱]

不忘初心，我辈自强

[@slavish_superiority]

@@東京の工程師好熱 胡扯了，你的初心不值钱，什么都决定不了，连看个纪录片都得翻墙爬狗洞到别国

[@slavish_superiority]

你又不是屈原那样的世家大族，求索什么？不是权贵，不配姓赵哦

[@philiphaiqing9748]

The olden style China people, both men and women are so super tough and have great strength and stamina

[@oscarmartinsafonsodepaiva3320]

Very good video. He has an excellent sonoplasty.

[@alfaeco15]

It would be nice to have a colorized version

[@arjanterveen9534]

See the suffering and even the beauty of the past,the hard working labour,we can't imagine..so hard...!

[@stevenkok1926]

Nice recollection thank you.

[@normanchan2011]

Great historic footage of the old China with technological backwardness but human industriousness. Glad things have changed for the benefit of the people of China

[@Alan-megan]

Thankyou for this upload. Showing the daily struggles of the mass majority of Chinese for thousands of years.

[@yeasiradnan2073]

Nostalgic video...i Cry, oh my childhood

[@LeesSolidstory]

Dudes smile at 3:49 lifted my heart up

[@roberttsui4941]

This is a period that some foreigners miss a lot, they just hope China could stay this way.

[@big.d7899]

Their life are struggle and being enslaved wym

[@boxyyy7329]

受迫害妄想症？

[@chinaforcedorganharvest-me7062]

Yet the period where China changed BIGGEST is after Mao's death. You can see the policy before and after and how millions of Chinese able to LIFT THEMSELVES out of EXTREME POVERTY for DECADES under Mao Zedong.

[@yuhaozhang5575]

Yeah, the foreigners really do like china under their imperialism...

[@mikemurray2027]

@@chinaforcedorganharvest-me7062 No, that's not right. China began to experience huge growth immediately after the civil war ended, not unsurprisingly. The population grew and so did the standard of living, though of course it was hard because China was isolated from world trade and sanctioned etc, the same as all countries trying to be independent of imperial powers. China was not allowed to trade freely with the world until the mid seventies, not even with the Soviet Union, so 'opening up' was simply not an option before that.

[@klausbmj]

wunderbar, Herr Rogge. Ihre Filme sind eine Goldgrube. Erhalten Sie sie gut.

[@michaelijsbrand]

Danke schön ! Ich habe 950 mehr zo betrachten !

[@klausbmj]

MichaelRogge Ich freu mich schon darauf! Sie muessen ein unglaublich interessantes Leben gehabt haben und eine Arbeit, die Ihnen ermoeglicht hat, so viel zu einer so tollen Zeit zu sehen. Sicher, jetzt haben Reisen vielleicht auch noch einen gewissen Reiz, aber damals, da war es schon was anderes. Ich koennte mir denken, dass nur noch Peter Scholl-Latour noch mehr als Sie erlebt hat. Bleiben Sie bitte gesund und aktiv und vielen Dank, dass Sie Ihr Hobby mit der Welt teilen.

[@michaelijsbrand]

klausbmj Ich musz eingestehen dass ich nicht alle Filme/Videos selbst gemacht habe und auch interessante Dokumentarfilme kaufe. Dennoch wenn man 85 Jahre alt ist kann man nicht entkommen viel gesehen zu haben !

[@刘帅-h5h]

看到纤夫好心酸

[@slavish_superiority]

做惯了奴隶就不觉得苦了

[@mehzabincontractor7027]

The man's drinking sea water so much suffering God bless them

[@joeescode8631]

Really nice documentary.

[@lilysing766]

cried for this video. Man Qing Dynasty really made chinese poorer and poorer, minor race should not control china at all! Ming Dynasty chinese had rich life, then Qing Dynasty, Man minor race is too greedy and collect treasure from Han Chinese, then the whole china became poorer and poorer. Feel so sad saw these people who suffering to live.

[@xiaoyu1691]

A lot has to do with the country closing it’s door to other country, but now Chinese on the rise again

[@slavish_superiority]

no，you need reading history...people of social bottom in Qing dynasty ，more rich than that in Ming dynasty. Because the economic policy of the Qing Dynasty was never to increase taxes，and high-yielding crops from South America have entered China, and a population explosion has occurred in the Qing Dynasty

[@davidlee7997]

This was national party ruling period

[@markboudreau1410]

It's said that real martial arts were a handful of techniques based on what type of work you did; now I know why. How could they endure that grueling work day after day?

[@d0fabur5st82]

Wow These guys need lots of energy for the hard labour they do. China also didn’t industrialize so some of these tasks they’ve done since the medieval period.

[@wfireC]

I think I saw the high risers where my dad rented an attic at during those years.

[@jogico]

actually it's very different after 75 years...

[@QNFee]

do they have windmills instead of footmills ? in holland we could build mills a long time ago , maybe they have no wind in china

[@mjs22002]

The empire probably only cared abt the royal family than educating peasants

[@wilhelmvonbrandenburg5850]

QNFee maybe in the coastal area, but I don’t think Chinese heartland gets as powerful wind as the Netherlands...

[@kenbibi7631]

"Anywhere the wind blows, doesn't really matter to me, to me..."

[@slavish_superiority]

@@QNFee yes，Yangzi River basin area，no wind，along with river，it's very hot in lots of cities ，we call them “stove city” ，like Wuhan、Chongqing...Winter is warm, and other seasons are humid and sultry, like a sauna and massage house, so Chinese beauty girls，most are produced in the provinces along the Yangtze River.

[@jj6052]

Thank You!

[@hazelui]

Thanks to the sound-making specialist , when filming couldn’t record sound.

[@wilhelmvonbrandenburg5850]

hazelui haha exactly

[@shoukatali7870]

.so hard life for poor people so sad to see this video .From U.K..

[@slavish_superiority]

@Абзал Абзал Nonsense... Without the antibiotics, fertilizers, and modern medicine that the British gave you for free, you probably wouldn't be alive today

[@slavish_superiority]

​@Абзал Абзал everybody knows china had rich and developed time today because of u.k‘s invention from Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Alexander Fleming, Michael Faraday, Alan Turing...Do you have a basic science education?

[@buithekhai1164]

9:05 name song plss

[@bbr6444]

China today is unrecognizable from the old days

[@zerolann]

We can't imagine how much our ancestors suffered decades ago

[@alfaeco15]

The paddle boot was interesting

[@xiaohuhe-y3z]

Thank you. I'm from China

[@am1966ath]

beautiful film and chinese music.

[@mozambique9113]

Hardened generation of people. and Human exploitation. Respect.

[@am1966ath]

The landscape, the people??

[@SuperZFunkey]

You see there's the problem, because China was so peaceful it gave a huge open for other countries to come in and rip it apart, in the past China suffered dozens of countries coming and taking what is rightly ours, but as time past The Chinese now learned that the strong will always stand over the small and weak, therefore now you should understand why China's military is so big.

[@goognamgoognw6637]

learn your history. China has never been at peace it had to fight many warring northern asian tribes, what do you think the 'great wall' of china was for ? Who do you think wrote 'the art of war' , a china man. What warlord was buried with an army of soldiers in Xi'an ? War has been a way of life in china from ancestral times. Over time the chinese learned to be more resilient through organized society rather than plundering and waging war. But it never was peaceful at the governing level. The Manchu who ruled China weakened it and it could no defend itself against foreigners, not because is was peaceful. Today there are too many chineses and it destroys the natural ressources and pollutes and the Hans Chinese don't care about it. This is why China is bad and disliked by everyone else on earth. It is you who should understand that for these reasons if there is a conflict everyone will turn against china. The reason is simple, you are bad for the planet.

[@MrJm323]

@@alanOHALAN ...LOL! ...Thanks for supporting SuperZFunkey's central thesis of how PEACEFUL China and the Chinese people are! ...LOL!

[@MrTigerjake]

@@goognamgoognw6637 you stupid write too much

[@chinaforcedorganharvest-me7062]

China has never peaceful, the map of China keep expanding is the very proof of that. The only reason why China stop expanding because it took MONTHS for communication from the farthest outpost to Imperial Court. Even with the dove, any actions would take months later to have any effect. Thus China stopped expanding. Not to mention there are no real enemies in China except the North, East of China is Pacific Ocean, South is Vietnam which under China for 1000 years. West is big desert lead to Tibet which China later invaded and India is too far West. Thus China with no real enemies and thus corruptions appear from Dynasties to Dynasties in some of the most deadliest Power Struggle for the Throne.

[@chinaforcedorganharvest-me7062]

Fast forward to present, Xi Jingping and many top CCP officials first expand Communication through 5G through Historical Lesson of why many China's Dynasties stop expanding and make it the highest priority. Thus many video about the All Seeing Eyes of China. Mostly to keep Chinese everywhere in the world under CONTROL.

[@ordyhorizonrivieredunord712]

Hope this will make people realize how much the China had to suffer as for working on the railroads in America

[@SuperHyee]

Thanks !

[@MrPauldroid]

thank you for yr film

[@kenbibi7631]

China's still the same since 3500 years ago...

[@lowengkok1201]

KZbin any strategy for ancient warfare from Asian and Europe. Such as during the time invvasion of Rome army. y

[@hoitickwong8330]

Live become better now.However I love the scenery and the culture of the old days

[@kenbibi7631]

Nope, there are still young ppl being starved to death and kid being sold on the street today!

[@hoitickwong8330]

ken bibi Yes,there are still many poor people nowadays

[@c2100]

I travelled 600 kms in Oct. 2013 and saw none of the scenes depicted here. Now a modern waterway with freighters transporting new products in both directions. Our ship built in April 2013 was as luxurious as any I have traveled on flic.kr/p/h4Kryi

[@allacerz2289]

莫忘世上苦人多

[@嘘不要说话]

韩国鱼的粉？

[@paco3385]

merci !

[@ejacs8077]

Did they have coronavirus back then?

[@bowu5150]

Why r u so mean.

[@oscarchute6040]

China had an opium problem back then.

[@slavish_superiority]

@@oscarchute6040 yeah ，your ancestors themselves invented Opium pipe（大烟枪），Opium dens（大烟馆），FuShou cream（福寿膏），Opium industry...You yourself imported opium from the Middle East in 1700, and became addicted to it in 1800, and chinese developed Opium into a industrial chain. Is it someone else's responsibility?

[@lapyeechan8370]

苦難的中國一百多年前！😭😭😭作為中國人你還不 珍惜當下的中國嗎？只有西方帝國才 緬懷過去的中國！😡😡😡

[@slavish_superiority]

胡扯了，没读过书啊...珍惜不珍惜，历史也会按自己规律发展，跟你没半毛钱关系。更要命的是，你是根本没信息权、言论权和选择权的奴隶，主子不在乎你珍惜不珍惜

[@gz393]

上海市区挺漂亮的，但是向外走就不行。

[@slavish_superiority]

那不叫市区，叫租界。 上海道台衙门所在地也是市区，但一样不漂亮

[@lostinmuzak]

These are the hard working people of China that made China - not empires and governments that the rest of the world and the tourists only cares about. Whoever dubbed the sound could have done a better job 😕 India also has very strong work ethics but held back by class system and religion that discouraged women participation in the workforce. Explains why China is so far ahead despite having similar cultures.

[@oscarchute6040]

Chinese culture is based on Confucian values. Indian culture is based on the Hindu religion. I think there is a difference.

[@slavish_superiority]

they are not similar cultures，totally different...Pursuit of wealth, thrift, emphasis on education, collectivism and discipline, communist slave labor habits, these ethnic characteristics made China rich. Indians are loose, believe in fate, have inconsistent values, democratic and individual values, and have a strong artistic temperament, which restricts India's development.

[@lostinmuzak]

@@slavish_superiority You sound so informed and so wrong. 😂 99% of Chinese were living in abject poverty, just like the Indians, until the last few years. So did the Chinese suddenly developed those amazing characteristics in the last few years? Like the Chinese the average Indians are also prospered in the last few years. So your thoughts need a complete reset. Start again and read and think.

[@slavish_superiority]

@@lostinmuzak This is the opinion of the people of the world on two countries, not mine alone. Whether it is rich or not in recent years, as well as the ratio of extreme poverty, cannot deny the national character. The national character of the two countries is determined by 3000 years of ancient history, and has been finalized after being conquered by communism and the British in the last 200 years.

[@slavish_superiority]

@@lostinmuzak National character determines the future of each country. Both countries can become prosperous as long as they follow the U.S. globalization order. China has started become an enemy of the US, and it's modernization process will soon stop, but I also don't think India can replace China as the world's main supplier of cheap consumer industrial goods. On the contrary, people of Vietnam and other countries in the Indo-China Peninsula, who have similar national character to the Chinese, have a greater chance.

[@slavish_superiority]

Everyone is fitness, no big belly and fat, work is exercise

[@张名-z4y]

伟大的劳动人民万岁！珍惜今天来之不易的生活！！

[@slavish_superiority]

空话...你珍惜不珍惜没用，历史都按照它自己的规律演进，你没有任何选择权。就像你的生命，是西方现代医学、抗生素、优生优育、化肥、西方农业育种技术白给你的一样，只能靠运气

[@sabcam2000]

The added sound is so annoying and fake. Chinese music would have been ok... or no sound at all!

[@saltssmilealittlethenstop1168]

ohh so much memory.. i wish i could back time to greet them how they doin :)

[@slavish_superiority]

don't do this，time travelling is dangers， as soon as you land, you'll be caught as a slave laborer

[@martinbrownmartinbrown7177]

Omg

[@tondtpyng2289]

💜

[@silviamarchesani4236]

quanta labuta... por isso são magérrimos

[@manoleo1]

so they say rice make you fat right? how come chinese rice been the first most eat in china are all so skinny?

[@naturelilacgold9016]

Jacob Baez … because they ate less meat and did lots of hard work !

[@MrBlaxjax]

The Chinese do eat a lot of rice because rice (and noodles) are the mainstay). It's usually one or two small bowls accompanied by other smallish dishes of various meats, fish vegetables and tofu. It is a pretty varied diet and a healthy diet too.

[@waterdropsfall]

None kind of food can make you fat when it isn't enough.

[@chinaforcedorganharvest-me7062]

Excessive food of any kinds will make you fat. Chinese around this time barely have enough to eat. Heck, not just Chinese, peasants everywhere in the world around this time barely have enough to eat.

[@slavish_superiority]

different race....racial reasons. after eating same calorie food, East Asians will not be fat , and Westerners will gain weight. It's like white people are born with hairy, loose skin prone to spots, and heavy body odor, while East Asians are born without body odor and don't need Antiperspirant or frequent baths，when East Asians are sick, they only need half the amount of medicine for white people to be cured. It is a same reason

[@jimmyjuan1045]

将中国从农业国变成工业国, 真的是中国历史上最伟大的成就.

[@嘘不要说话]

越来越爱共产党了。了不起

[@slavish_superiority]

@@嘘不要说话 胡扯了，没读过书啊...任何人管理中国，凭国人的勤劳聪明和世界国土资源最大国之一，都能变成了不起的国家

[@slavish_superiority]

更胡说八道了，没上过学啊。中国人寿命的增长和进步，是西方抗生素、化肥、现代医学、农业育种、优生优育的功劳。变成工业国，是邓小平加入美国主导的世界秩序，美国向中国开放市场和技术限制的结果。 否则你跟大清和文革一样，还得受巴黎统筹委员会的技术制裁、以手工劳动、靠粮票副食本活着

[@corvuscrow5485]

The added sound effects made me laugh...🤣 (I'll bet that with 100,000 chinese coolies from back then I could rebuild the world) 😁

[@kocayurekliadam2063]

Those people like ants always carrying something

[@MegaSitthichai]

感谢！

[@mariacelina7575]

Oi! pessoal sou Brasileira.assistino agora😙😙😍😍

[@Tekhelet75]

China has always been about people power, still is, and always will be.

[@infoworld7706]

are you kidding me? do you know which countries buy most of the robots in the world today? It is China.

[@waterdropsfall]

idiot

[@mariacelina7575]

coitadinhos !! 😮😟

[@kenwu9616]

10:00胡主席展堂先生典礼，是胡汉民？ 百度百科----》1933年创办《三民主义月刊》。1935年6月，胡汉民赴欧考察，停止了对蒋介石的抨击。12月，尚在法国的胡汉民被国民党五届一中全会选为中央常务委员会主席。

[@user-sl4rh9gl5e]

珍贵,不要扔。这是宝

[@paulbrowncsm]

Thats for posting this. It was facinating. When you see video of Shanghai now, it sure looks like it has lost its culture and appeal.

[@commonsenserhetoric]

勉強になります

[@user-sl4rh9gl5e]

chinese always work hard. no lazy

[@kenbibi7631]

They toil without any ideas

[@abababcd]

10:32 true china

[@sonyamonozova5088]

Republic Of China Kuomintang ,Nationalist Sun Yadsen,Chiang Kaishek

[@thihanhpham6927]

Thoi buoi 4.o , quangcao thuoc' tiengviet di khap' the' gioi'

[@hoppinggnomethe4154]

Beautiful lady in beautiful dress

[@mariacelina7575]

Otimo exercicio 😂😂😂

[@老曹-r9p]

上海用人在拉車的真先進

[@aycaramba9540]

FOOTAGE: real SOUND: added, fake

[@sirius7201]

淞沪会战，我们连苦难的和平都将失去。这里即将遍地焦土，血流成河。

[@et7992]

some porno audio added

[@liangsun4843]

我不希望中国人只有在痛苦的时候才能团结一致

[@slavish_superiority]

中国人从来不是团结一致的，本来就是一盘散沙的原子化丛林社会，文化，从暴秦那天就定型了

[@老曹-r9p]

用人在犁田的看過沒有，你也養頭牛吧吃草的又不花錢

[@王芳-o8s]

何不食肉糜

[@elena16350]

Empty soulless film, that uses the people as slaves, yes it was interesting, but you really spoiled by using that obviousdubbing.

[@LeesSolidstory]

Lawrence Orr entitled spoiled people like you wouldnt understand the satisfaction and joy of hard work. Slavery my ass, they are smiling contently in their hearts.

[@謝啊發]

11。1發現美女一枚

[@bobevans9996]

re mastered