1980's China - Real life in a Chinese Community in Nanjing
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ส.ค. 2024
- This Chinese community in Nanjing China was born in the 1980's at a time of massive economic and cultural change in China. I explore some vintage buildings from the 1980's, take a look at the community square, local food, recycling and back alleys and other interesting places in this unique community alongside Nanhu East Road in Nanjing.
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I like how you learned Chinese and interact with the locals. Most foreigners do not do that so keep learning Chinese and you will speak like a native soon.
Thank you. I really like to interact with the locals. I hope to improve my Chinese a lot this year.
@@middlekingdomproductions One of the best ways to learn Chinese is to watch Chinese movies (which I really enjoy).
Yeah, once my level is a bit higher I will do definitely. thanks for the tip
Ni hao ma si si wo she meguran.
The whole community and buildings look like a museum - remind me of the vibe and atmosphere in the 1970s in Singapore. We could hardly see those now due to rapid commercial development. Love your unpretentious video.
Yeah they do 🙂👍 1970’s Singapore sounds interesting. Thank you very much!
Wow I love your video
thank you!
Spotted beef potstickers 1:19! Among my favorite foods of Nanjing
I'm not sure whether I've tried them, What's the Chinese name for them?
@@middlekingdomproductions 牛肉锅贴 (niurou guotie). On Dec 19, 2021, I posted a video about the food, though the restaurant I visited is one of those "historic and famous" shops that has stories for me to tell, but probably not one that locals would recommend right away.
👏👏👏Hello, I loved the video. the musicalization too, thank you. if possible i would like to find the music i use please.
Thank you Victor. Sure, I can share the music with you. Can you email me at middlekingdomrescue@gmail.com and I can send you the names of the music and where I got it from ?
It's very interesting that Nanjing keeps this 80's street front as in a museum.
Yeah, I really like that street
I enjoyed your production. Nanjing might not be a tier one bustling city in China, but it does have a nostalgia aspect and very rich history.
Thank you very much 🙂 that’s true there is a lot of nostalgia and history here. I like this city a lot.
That's a really nice and interesting community 🤠
Yeah, its a cool place.
Great video! This is a typical working-class neighborhood in Chinese cities mostly built in 1980's. It makes me nostalgic ...
Thanks :). it must have been awesome to live in a place like this in the 80's with the excitement of new communities appearing and more access to different culture and arts.
@@middlekingdomproductions Well, not exactly. Being nostalgic doesn't mean you want to go back to earlier 1980's when life was quite a struggle. 😊
Great video ! Very interesting insight into life in a Chinese community. Love the information you give us and your interaction with the locals. I love the music too ! Thank you for a really interesting video. I look forward to watching more ! 😍🤩🥰
Traveling back in Time with Adam... Interesting ! Great video as always.
Thank you very much!
In 1982, I met a Chinese student from mainland China. She's the first Chinese I knew!!!
In fact we were not allowed to read or know anything anout China. I could only find books about old China. I often wondered what China and a modern Chinese look like!
In 1971, I found 2 books with pictures
of Chinese Communes by a Swede. I saw happy faces, people working and a pretty young girl wearing village clothes and laughing.
Its not till a decade later that I joined
SACU - Society for Anglo Chinese Understanding and really got to know about China and met the brilliant students.
That's fascinating. So Chinese students started to study abroad in the 80's ?. It must have been really interesting to find out and see those books showing life in China back then. I'd love to go back in time and experience life then, I like the idea of a simpler village lifestyle but I know it came with a lot of difficulties too. I haven't heard about the SACU before, it sounds interesting. Is SACU based in Manchester ?
@@middlekingdomproductions
Hi, Adam. Chinese students started to study abroad since 1978, in the early days, most of them were sent by the government or received overseas scholarships, mainly to the United Kingdom, the United States, West Germany, and Japan (the Chinese government had been sending students to the Soviet Union from the 1950s to the mid-1960s). If you haven't heard about the SACU before, have you heard that "Jane Eyre" and the BBC teaching program "Follow Me" etc., were once popular in China?
Wonderful video, coupled with eloquent narrative. Thank you indeed the life in the alleys your presented bringing us many good memories.
Pass my greeting to Teeny!
@@shamrock.November thank you very much 🙂👍 that’s really interesting! Wow, I never knew Jane Eyre or follow me were popular in China. I find it really interesting learning more about everyday life and culture here in the past decades.
@@shamrock.November thank you very much 🙂👍 that’s really interesting! Wow, I never knew Jane Eyre or follow me were popular in China. I find it really interesting learning more about everyday life and culture here in the past decades.
@@middlekingdomproductions SACU was the amazing Anglo-Chinese bilingual, bicultural Society founded by Joseph Needham Prof Emeritus of Biochemistry,
Cambridge... who wrote 17 vols. on
"Chinese Science and Civilisation."
JN was an academician of diverse talents in
many subjects -
Maths, Sciences,
History, Classics, languages...
Cont... all next box
I was born in 1973 , that’s exactly what my memory in Shandong Province,the magazine （mass movie) , the old TV set , the slogan “ learn from Leifeng “(a moral model who always work hard and happy to help others) etc . People in that time are not rich but no stress, government pays for apartments , schools, seeing the doctors, most of things are free including universities until usa and the west world made a lot of sanction on China in 1990 , and market economy started in 1992 , everybody has to pay a lot of bills since then
Hey Adam love your videos want to ask is there any good gyms in nanjing for bodybuilding and if there any I would really appreciate you showing us the gyms there in your next videos therefore keep up the work my friend!
Thanks Ilyas appreciate your kind words 🙂👍 in one of my older videos I show a cool outdoor gym that has a bench and all sorts of equipment. There are a lot of gyms in Nanjing, working out is popular here. I’m not a member of a gym at the moment but I used to be. I’ll see if I can get any footage in a future vlog in the next few weeks 👍
@@middlekingdomproductions thank you that means a lot to me you can not imagine I am an online student at the moment but I may come in September and wondering if there are halal for Muslims as well
@@Ilstoicharzard Yes, I am pretty sure you'll be able to get halal here. There are some muslims here so I think it must be possible.
Great video! Thank you for sharing, I will be moving to Nanjing for work soon so it’s nice to get insight on what it really looks like. 12:16 where is this sugarcane drink place, it’s defo on my list of places to go 😍 I really want to try this
Thanks Maggie 🙂👍 Welcome to Nanjing! The street which I think is called 南湖东路 had a lot of these sugarcane drink stalls when I last visited.
We've been recycling newspapers, cardboard, bottle and metal long before it became popular in the west
Yeah, the infrastructure here is very different with lots of shops to sell different recyclable materials and lots of people willing to collect and sell it. It works really well.
Love that guy shouting his lungs out around 0:30 lmao
Haha yeah there were quite a few distractions and obstacles while I was trying to record that part 😂
Very nice and peaceful video. God bless your good work in helping the aninals. Look into prostitutions in China. It is very sad.
Thank you very much. I wish I could afford to help more animals but I spent most of my money on animals last year and it’s a struggle. I can’t do any more to help other than feeding and paying current vet bills monthly unfortunately. Seeing animals I love disappear is very tough.