The old China before WW2: From Mongolia to Beijing.

[@davelinkin]

It's been a week now .. I put this clip on repeat and turn the speakers on ..I sleep so peacefully listening to it .. none of these people are present now but even after 100 years we are seeing what their lives used to be .. I wish I could more of such old videos..these are gems and must be preserved

[@katyu16]

Today, we're lucky to see these old clips filmed by western foreigners in China, in this case a German, as well as Chinese photographers. Old films like these are very fragile and who knows how many have been improperly stored and have since disintegrated?

[@jasonlind3065]

or destroyed during the culutral revolution

[@thewanderer6444]

agreed. history lives this way.

[@Patchaddictedpolymath]

@@jasonlind3065 cultural devolution as it were

[@matthewbivens1299]

Well... It would be a great start

[@dm3402]

Just realizing how fragile tangent memories to the past makes me appreciate all cultures more. Made me a more open minded person, understanding the fragility of it all.

[@mingchangliu5316]

could they even imagine that 100 years later people are watching them on youtube.. haha

[@goognamgoognw6637]

..and can you imagine people 100 years later seeing through your mind ?

[@ultrahevybeat]

goognam goognws are you high?

[@YFNGamer1]

Well..not *their* people.

[@Pyro-Moloch]

I'd bet most of them are probably dead

[@YFNGamer1]

All of them are

[@danielmedina2078]

Cool to see the humility and thoughtfulness in the average person. The modern world needs those things.

[@jacobjorgenson9285]

It's was a bloody murderous time with zero humans rights and or realiable laws

[@སྐལབཟང]

I‘m Chinese . Thank you so much for uploading this precious video, this is really awesome.

[@hootarosetagaya5570]

In 2016, I visited Beijing to see Forbidden City and the Great Wall. They were awesome ! From Tokyo.

[@Ethan-vj5mt]

Hootaro Setagaya I went to Kyoto in 2018. Absolutely stunning, hope to come again From Macau

[@Oliqinco]

@@hootarosetagaya5570 i visit nanking massacre museum in nanking…

[@DanYellowZena]

My girlfriend is a Chinese citizen of Mongolian descent. I went with her to inner Mongolia. It's really beautiful and amazing. It's like time has stood still. Very little, if anything has changed.

[@NmberOneNetsFan]

Dan Zena r u white ?

[@DanYellowZena]

@@NmberOneNetsFan I'm American, of Puerto Rican descent (Latino). I can pass for white but I wouldn't be classified as such.

[@JK360noscope]

"under new management"

[@rickydicky5889]

@@NmberOneNetsFan Why would that matter?

[@Lukejb2Butterworth]

Mongolians are almost as oppressed as Uyghurs and Tibetans , only ethnic Chinese thrive in ccp land .

[@youxkio]

Great gift for humanity. Thank you and your family for keeping all these records about human kind.

[@meekhinglim4829]

it is a memory recalling those younger days. May God bless you always to be in your best health MichaelRogge

[@mongoloolloo]

Greetings from Mongolia. Thanks for the rare video..

[@shengsuturner]

I absolutely LOVE the old clips. Thank you for sharing!! Ah.. I wish there is a time machine and I could go back to hundreds or even thousands of years and travel around the world! :) Was my college major in history?! No, I so wish though.

[@rylangston]

You can't understand what they say when you go back :D

[@tk9839]

I'm very a nostalgic person too but logistics would be a nightmare: the language, clothing, money, places to sleep, etc... you'd probably stick out like a sore thumb and if not careful esp. around medieval or early America, you may be accused of witchery...anyway it'd be the most amazing adventure...a ghost-like or ethereal form would be the ideal way to float through time..

[@kzern]

We won't have the chance to do so. Maybe our great grand children generation they might have such inventions. Don't be surprised when someone comes to you and tell you that you are his ancestor.

[@goognamgoognw6637]

Yes the history but also, something about analog film recording surpasses digital by far, pixel resolution is a pointless pursuit (pun intended). There's life and soul in film recording that digital is unable to capture despite gazillions pixels and recreated colors it's not alive the way film footage is alive. Think that in a film footage every speck of color or light is made by chemical reaction and every frame has its own sensitive chemical receptors whereas in digital the same transistors are repeatedly used over and over for every frame, so there is a previous data dependancy correlation between frames due to latency in the operation of the CMOS photo transistor. So despite all the hype around low-noise and superhigh resolution, digital has untold weaknesses.

[@raymonddon8875]

love the chinese people and their culture... with respect from france.

[@naim1177]

The round shape huts made of felt are still in use in Mongolia and known as GHUR. meaning home/

[@shivampurohit1331]

Ghar means home in Hindi too.

[@bdxoul]

@@shivampurohit1331 Ya Same as in Nepal Ghaar means home

[@javkhlantug]

it called Ger(gher)

[@Janiella89]

It's Ger.

[@stsbmu7169]

Ger is correct spell

[@snowj9582]

My grandpa was born in 1921 in Beijing. He told me that he always had 60 dumplings in Qianmen( the front gate of Beijing).

[@Friend-z-Mania]

What is dumplings ?

[@slavish_superiority]

@@Friend-z-Mania a kind of Chinese food， made of a variety of fillings wrapped in small pieces of dough, either meat or vegetable, cooked in water. About 15-20 grams each

[@slavish_superiority]

That's impossible，No matter how small the dumplings are in the restaurant, there are 10 grams at least, and 600 grams is more than one chinese Jin（市斤）. I have rarely seen a woman who eats up to one Jin. Unless it's a 200 pounds tall and strong female warrior like Mulan

[@Friend-z-Mania]

@@slavish_superiority thanks for the explanation

[@slavish_superiority]

@@Friend-z-Mania you're welcome ...All Chinese grocery stores in western countries sell raw frozen dumplings. You can buy them and cook them by yourself. delicious. Sanxian stuffing（三鲜馅） is recommended. but Russians also eat dumplings, don't buy the wrong kind

[@MrSifaperdire]

videos like these are a precious heritage for human kind

[@arynnehempstock1108]

Absolutely amazing and priceless footage!! Thank you so much!!

[@haselu2002]

Soft contrast , fully grayscale tone , clear detail , excellent film quality.

[@markw900]

Thank you. Very valuable footage. Interesting to see how the horse was tied to replace new shoes.

[@sasantarom]

Well dressed, clean, nice haircuts, huge farms, markets and festivals! Obviously they weren't poor.

[@avecmoi9429]

I like the music and like the way this is presented, no commentary, just a few words for reach scene. This let's the viewers more easily form their own views.

[@HanFollo]

How precious these are!

[@lindseyxoxo]

我喜欢这老视频！还有声音，我听到我能听懂的语言。这是一个我没有出生的时代。这很珍贵，这是一代人真实的记忆，和他们生活过的城市。我认为这是有意义的。我喜欢中国。以前的中国，现在的中国，我都喜欢。

[@JustKillEmAll]

请停止使用google翻译

[@villybb2729]

oh oh,,thans for shareing ,Mr MichaelRogge

[@K4moo]

WOW! This means a lot to a beijinger, watching what life was like in Beijing near a century ago really brings a new perspective. To think how short my existence will be compared to the history really puts me in awe..

[@王乾旭-o4s]

old Beijing looks so peaceful

[@noco7243]

Peiking

[@政斌-x8k]

Right?

[@ferportoricardo]

@S. Young Great burn, S. Young!!! ;) But actually, the sound in Mandarin is "B"?

[@benthekeeshond545]

@@noco7243 Peking

[@zhang4610]

Carlos Danger No.

[@enkhzayazundui1063]

That time Mongol and China both were under Manchu rule. Manchu and China is 2 different. So, you know. If I see the ladies head jewelers, they are Uzemchin Mongol tribe. Seems like mostly filmed in inner Mongol. That time both Mongols were together.

[@MeiinUK]

@jerry tom : See ?? Destroying classic academia and scholars, so much so that, the history is even lost... This lend powers to allow others to take advantage. Imagine this..."CCP" was just a "group of farmers' army"... Really ?!!?!? .... And then they "won" the country ?!!? When you say it like this. Do you know how ridiculous it sounds ?? Sometimes.. I do not even know who to believe.

[@enkhzayazundui1063]

@@MeiinUKI don’t care, what your CCP is for you. They are all fully blooded Chinese. It is not apply to Mongols. What do you mean?

[@dylanholland9435]

My favorite channel on KZbin right now.

[@allmendoubt4784]

Inner Mongolia looked exactly the same summer 2019

[@synthiapowe4937]

Wow!

[@MonsieurSquidward]

But not Tibet. They was a an autonome state, also Turkestan. China occupied it.

[@godessworshipper4663]

@@MonsieurSquidward And there was evil cult practices and serf system for you as well

[@jungemanner4915]

It could also outer mongolia. I think more outer mongolia

[@onlyforwatchingvids2086]

Tulgaa Gankhuyag Dude it sounds like Mongolia’s a part of China instead independent

[@lianyingguan2698]

不知道是否可以转载？博主老爷爷真棒 感谢您分享这么多历史影像 太珍贵了！祝您长寿健康！

[@cystr9714]

This is very valuable,thanks for uploading!

[@evgenys177]

Many thanks Michael Rogge for the video ! I wish you all the best.

[@manchu-qu9mw]

It is so immersive watching these videos with traditional Chinese music.

[@Alan-megan]

Great footages. Thanks for your uploads 👍👍

[@naim1177]

Thank you for preserving the history. A great work

[@yohoomiu6176]

Thank you for saving these beautiful priceless memorry

[@brkitdwn]

The first footage shows us a wild wild east.

[@welshpete12]

It has changed so much , since the time I was there in the 1990's !

[@shiwang5464]

Those bicycles from the film reminds me of a fun fact. Many older generations of local Beijing people, just like my grandma who is 87 years old this year, are still calling bicycles “洋车”, which means “western vehicles”. Dang, miss the old days.

[@koalatheworld]

Interesting! Xie xie.

[@AAAAAAAAA705]

90年代也叫洋车

[@金子大-s1v]

这影片太珍贵了，没有被拆的老北京城

[@gccg3646]

How good music you catch!

[@generalyan7084]

The Mongolian steppe people live such a beautiful and pure nomadic life enriched with custom and tradition. Horses and falconry...need I say more?

[@Buydaa.M]

but the Chinese call them Barbarians or Ancient Dark 蒙古

[@JW-uf5xe]

Thank you very much for sharing this video, very precious and invaluable

[@李硕增]

Thank you for putting this video on youtube

[@franktim6718]

Huge thanks for sharing these amazing videos with us!!!God bless you!!!💓👍🙏❤

[@mabellegall]

These days we accumulate things and want everything we don’t need. But are stress to the core and not healthy.... simplicity is always to me is the best thing for mankind. I hope we will come to realize that one day🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

[@darrenshao5294]

It's an amazing journey to the past of Inner Mongolia and Beijing nearly a hundred years ago.

[@jackbawer8494]

谢谢你保留了这么多 以前的中国的影像，真是很好的素材，让我们知道中国发展的不容易，多灾多难的中国，让我们更加珍惜现在的发展环境，中国一定会富强起来的。

[@snowysu4291]

Thank you for the sharing! Love these documentary films!

[@octchung]

Thank you Mr. Rogge. I think the dragon festival where at the end of this film must be filmed in GuangDong.

[@lowengkok3562]

This like Time travel👍👍👍

[@nicholasliu4287]

omg looked so beautiful back then

[@novajerel3690]

Thank you so much for these wonderful films !!

[@frenkporta1906]

Days in the world. Each era has its on glory, nostalgic time, disaster and downturn. Question is how can we make the present be a good memory to be remember. By ourself and others

[@harold8886]

Couldn’t find the 9 dash line (over south China sea) on that map!!!

[@Mads_Vel]

Nice! Good that you have saved this video. I like that it's peaceful with clean air.

[@kesmarn]

In the course of your travels, did you ever by chance run into John de Francis? He was a scholar traveling in the same places at the same time that you were there. Later he wrote Chinese language texts. He was the director of the Chinese language program at the University of Hawaii in the 1960s.

[@sydneylaroche8276]

I live in Beijing now, it looks different but people act pretty much the same as in this video

[@sgs587]

真有趣。老北京真漂亮。原来大家那时候真划龙舟，也说加油

[@jackytang3683]

你看古代小说，三言二拍，里面描写的那些事情跟现在没啥区别，婆媳矛盾，婚外情，街头泼皮

[@comediangj4955]

以前的录像都是没有录音的，这些音频都是拿其他音频拼接的。

[@夏士莲欧莱雅]

。。现在也真划龙舟啊。。。

[@MrMonzon101]

When the world was still magical..

[@christellema6249]

Thank you so much ! From a peking girl

[@raymonddon8875]

love the chinese people and their deep history... with respect from france.

[@pburet]

Thank you for your series of marvelous clips - I would also recommend Jeff Quitney's channel in case you have note sen it, it has some good movies on old China

[@VezVezar]

to those people who prefers old China.. do you see how thin people are? do you realize by the time the west has camera, cars, iron ships, majority Chinese can't even read hence the guy writing letter to make money? do you know that for decades, the west and japan forced countless unfair deals on China? do you know China was broken into different states ruled by different warlords, while facing external threat? one way or another, china needed a revolution, and China got it. it was started by Sun Wen, finished by Mao. all the heros lived in that age, fought for a better future for China, although Sun Wen never suceeded in his revolution, although Chiangkaishek was more interested in killing all communists, although Mao later made a series mistakes that directly or indirectly caused millions of death. They are all the heros needed by China at that time. It just happens that the communists finished it. communist party has it's flaws, they have made some bad decisions in the past, and they will continue to do so in the future, like any political party. But I would take today's china over old china any day of the week, at least now we don't have army from another country on our land, at least now not only i know chinese, i can also read and write in english. I worry about getting fat than starving, and we have the west talking about "China threat" instead of forced Opium trading. remember the footage shown in the video, is one of the darkest times in China's long history, China could have disapeared on the map, broken into many different states. Chinese should do whatever it takes to prevent this from happening again.

[@Wren996]

Lu Yin Really an epic comment

[@cameronalexander7465]

Chinas communist party is horrible

[@abubardewa939]

China is gaining it's position back. You guys embraced education and technology. Your rise is inevitable. It's just the fact that you guys got left out on industrial revolution.

[@去看海-j9j]

Colonialism and Advances in the Warfare has caused destruction and killed off entire races. To look down on oneself and embrace West as the model without some soul searching is truly the sadness of modern China.

[@ithinilben4672]

I would like to note that anywhere on earth at this era, majority of people were thin like those in the video. Also actualy school was common in China wven way before the western culture spreaded. Common people could read.

[@heidimiller5475]

Thanks for showing us this.

[@unitheg6839]

past history of China can be summarised as bitter circles of involution after Sui dynasty, I read like more than 1000 first hand historical materials in Chinese since my primary-school inspiration on traditional art,history and culture, the more I get in touch with the old Middle Kingdom the more amazement and frustration I got, maybe I am still way too young to be able appreciate the distant past of my country with true calmness and wisdom.

[@michaelijsbrand]

You must be a question beacon by now !

[@classicpiano123]

Very rare historical film. Thank you!

[@zhireal652]

the background music is perfect

[@China_love_Palestine]

當年青年小夥子的髮型真帥！

[@taiweegoo4320]

When I watched the film I got very shocked. Qing dynasty (Manchu) had turned the old china into a real deep shit. The original old china was Han and the china most glorious day was described by Marco Polo during 1266.

[@magdamanduhai1869]

Tai wee goo Marco Polo describe the yuan dynasty of Kublai Khan of the mongol empire and the Chinese was just one of their subjects or citizens.

[@poppopartist3870]

No TV no traffic no mall no phone no processed food..etc We are now a completely new species

[@UbermenschOst]

I am very sorry that Eastern societies, which could have been a center for a strong spirituality, have preferred to "evolve" by rejecting and destroying what they have been. Of naturalism, of mysticism, very little remains, perhaps only Mongolia. China and Japan could drive the spiritual rebirth of modern man, instead they wanted to create urban agglomerations and very small tourist routes that are only attractions for the inexperienced. This magnificent civilization, of asia, has a lot to teach, and with this video I also feel the scent of what pre-industrialized society meant. Magnificent. I would give every part of me to be able to live this reality. The houses, the landscapes, the rural life, still, motionless, the wayfarers, those who stopped in the houses to ask for rest and hot dishes, how wonderful, I have goosebumps.

[@michaelijsbrand]

Indeed Eastern countries have taken the lead at one time to point at the possible spiritual rebirth of man

[@UbermenschOst]

@@michaelijsbrand that's right, thanks for the reply, it's a pleasure to watch his videos

[@rjcs2000]

Beautiful customs and costume from a lost time. The Chinese people have much to admire, rich history and a lavish culture. I wish the still enjoyed the freedom they once had.

[@China_love_Palestine]

古代的人文學造詣是真的非常高！

[@jrbb1837]

小部分人。那个时候识字的也就10%。

[@zane9964]

@@jrbb1837 不到，清末识字的7%，以前肯定更少

[@Nicole-rf5vs]

I love that in Mongolia they live for the most part in the same way,

[@urianhanhusel2164]

Thank you so much for share this video.

[@ceerbao2295]

At this time, my mother's grandfather was selling tea in Beijing. Business was good, and there was a courtyard (the best house at that time).

[@МухаббатКамбарова-з5ф]

Спасибо за видео,

[@davidcummings5984]

Old China had some of the most Beautiful Buildings. They've all been knocked down and destroyed Forever. I find it very sad.

[@whatsup7184]

There wasn't an audio effect at all in video during the time or before WWII. So the sounds we heard today is fixed or rigged by the later uploader. Life in Mongolia was self-sufficient. And now I understand why Arabia horse is the best... LOLOL..Mongolia horse is just OKEY... LOLOL... from the video.

[@мануфактурная_мастерская]

В тумане прошлого пытаюсь разглядеть, свои былые лица. Извилист и запутан путь веков, и времени песок над ним пылится.

[@景阳-e7e]

感谢分享，太珍贵了

[@AHAO.studio]

Sehr wertvolle historische Aufnahmen

[@历下名士]

We went through a lot that's why we are so great!

[@Pyro-Moloch]

and so humble!

[@jacobjorgenson9285]

What? You've destroyed all this history to make room for concrete and greed for money

[@wmchan2674]

Before WW2, the city was called Peiping(北平) and was not Beijing!

[@spjhl]

感谢！！！

[@numbnutone]

@ 01.50 , I saw something similar at home-base last week

[@卫卫]

谢谢，非常宝贵的视频

[@Chimpangel]

Amazing footage

[@DanSetoChineseCanadianRootsTV]

Great footage of old China. Thanks, Dan Seto, Chinese Canadian Roots TV.

[@ryanmbira3968]

excellent channel thank you for posting

[@Tereljmaa]

Wrong title! China and Mongolia were both under Qing (Manchu daicin) rule. So it should be Qing: Mongolia and China. Mongolia and China were seperate.

[@peekaboopeekaboo1165]

Wrong. Ch'ing dynasty/kingdom represents China. Thus Inner Mongolia was and is, a part of China.

[@Anthony-le2xm]

Qing is China. Mongolia only became independent in 1911. Chinese on the other hand only experienced a regime change in 1911.

[@mattks1001]

How old do you think he is? The KZbinr filmed these videos. This is likely 1930’s Mongolia and China. Qing was already decades gone.

[@harryliu2008]

Letter writer... interesting... thank you for sharing this...

[@SophiaLegro]

harry liu The letter writer you can see also in the Netherlands and Morocco in the old days.

[@elizabethshingola2787]

Awesome video

[@GAmgaIan]

Nice film. By the way, its title should be "The old Mongolia and China before WW II". These two countries were and are independent.

[@frankfleming1103]

at that monment, mongolia is not a country

[@mmmygc]

actually, Mongolia used to be part of China until 1921, and was only recognised in 1945. So it wasn't really dependent at the time of this film.

[@battulgachinbold6586]

Mongolia has never been part of China. Mongolia and China both have been part of Manchurian empire.

[@feix4765]

I want to rectify your view of history. The Qing Dynasty was a dynasty in China. The Qing Dynasty was China, and China was the Qing Dynasty. At that time, Mongolia did belong to China. In August 14, 1945, the national government signed the Sino Soviet Treaty of friendship alliance with the former Soviet Union, and Mongolia was independent from the result of the referendum. The following year, independence was recognized.

[@purevjargalpuujee4845]

@@feix4765 Oh yeah ? What is reason for taiping rebellion ? Who was Sengge Rinchen ?

[@purevjargalpuujee4845]

@@feix4765 china was part of Imperial Japanese !

[@jackierandom8948]

@@purevjargalpuujee4845 日本什么时候征服全中国了？傻嗨

[@tonngokhong1368]

Mọi người có biết ! Người quay phim giờ ơ đâu không?

[@rol8062]

Thanks for sharing the video, Michael. It's amazing. Unfortunately, most buildings and Budas were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution.

[@Buydaa.M]

thanks to Mao Zedong!

[@arik2216]

Buddha.

[@yuanying7292]

The hair style of young man in the end of film is popular now in China. The fashion appears repeatedly.

[@martymartyn7829]

Thank you for sharing. Great views of life. I wonder how many of the religious art works/temples still remain...

[@我-j6d]

All destroyed.Mao ordered Chinese to destroy all old stuffs.But nowadays some are rebuilt for earning money from visitors

[@gantuvshinganbaatar5885]

You should say from Mongolia to China officially.

[@reimuchan003]

Man, I wish they kept the old Beijing walls, there's just no forts as gigantic as them

[@lweiisme7142]

I don't think 11:11-12:29 happened in Beijing. Both the dragon boat and the lion are from the southern part of the Chinese mainland.

[@MeiinUK]

When I heard "ga yau"... I know it was added. Lol..... The sound is added, to old photos' animation or other... :)