it's sad how the Communist Party ended up destroying more of China itself then Japan did...such recordings we have here are one of the few glimpses we can see of many now destroyed cultural locations and way of life
It’s amazing I see Ms Peng Wenlan again after so many years, it was her voice that never changes. It was in 80’s when she was in China appeared in China Central Television program, teaching English, and she also hosted some other programs.
I use to live in Shanghai. I would go to the French Concession and see the different foreign embassies. I use to walk to the Bund and gaze at the Huangpu River that separates Puxi (west area) from Pudong ( east area). Shanghai is one of the most beautiful cities I’ve ever seen.
I was fortunate to travel in China in 1983 shortly after "Independent Travel" was permitted. Before then, travel was restricted to escorted groups. Although not too long ago, it was a different world compared to twenty or even ten years later. The majority of older men all wore the blue "Mao Suits" There was generally no refrigeration even in the cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Xian. Having lived in Taiwan for several years, I spoke enough Mandarin to get by. I knew how to say "Cold drink", but never received one. People laughed or just shook their head. There was one place in Beijing where one could get a cold Coke, but you had to show your passport to get into this so called "Friendship Store". "Foreigners only" said the sign on the door. Chinese who spoke English were almost non existent. Other foreign travelers asked if they could come along when I went to get meals. They had a lot of trouble getting served at eating places because they couldn't make themselves understood. Even restaurants were few and far between. I'm glad to have seen China back then. The stark contrast between what I saw in person and what I've seen on TV even back in the 2000's is amazing.
It's really interesting to see the history of our country in a different perspective, ty for the content ppl were so skinny back in that time lol, it's healthy lol, nice documentary btw, i was kinda eyes opening in a good way
Just out of curiosity, for those who were publicly educated US students, did your history classes cover any of the major events that occurred in China/Philippines/SE Asia during WWII? Or was it like my classes that almost exclusively covered Pearl Harbor, Germany/Europe & the holocaust? Aside from atomic bombs, my classes seemed to mostly ignore significant Japanese events...
Everyone is promoting the destructive power of the atomic bomb, but no one has ever explained why Japan was attacked by the atomic bomb. Is Japan innocent?
We have Asian history class in the high school I went to (South Pasadena class of 1989). If you're expecting China to be the center of our study, sorry to burst your bubbles, but we covered everyone in the region with equal unbiased points of view. 😈🤷♂️😁
@@willywonka4340 Seems like the right approach. Is it possible your curriculum was less biased due to demographic influences in your region...? My AZ schools were primarily white & almost entirely focused on the holocaust & Europe. We got to meet a holocaust survivor too, but we never covered most of the pacific theater or anything about China.
@@billymadison8574 I believe it was due to the fact that one of the faculty was a Japanese American who lived through the internment period as a young boy. He was a graduate of the same school and decided to return as a history teacher. I would think that we wouldn't have Asian history if it weren't for him. We also had regular world history course ( i.e. mostly Eurocentric lol) taught by someone else, so I took that class too 😆. So to your original question, yes and no, it is sorta regional but then again, south Pasadena made up of only 10% ish Asian in the 80s but to my knowledge, the neighboring suburb cities of Alhambra and Monterey Park didn't have a high school Asian History course in the 80s, but at least 50% of student bodies were Asians i.e. Chinese but that might not be the case these days anymore, they may have Asian history classes now, not sure 🤷♂️😁
I wish there were no authoritarian, militaristic governments and countries to interfere with the beautiful, sprawling developments of these cities and lands. Peace, liberty and trade builds up, but hostility, racism and war only ever tears down.
Amazing to have this footage. I have also looked for the same in Indonesia (Dutch East Indies) during the war in my research for a memoir/cultural history.
@@太好了F That's how they pay for the costs involved in hosting such videos. This is what capitalism is all about. If you pay for TH-cam Premium, you don't get the ads.
Awesome! I loved every moment of this! By not supporting China in her hour of need the west missed the opportunity to have China as a democratic friend. I lived in Shanghai as a teacher, my wife is Shanghainese I love every inch of this city. Thank you so much, I was moved greatly as I viewed this wonderful footage 🙏🙏🙏
"Democracy" is merely an empty name in the West. As a teacher I'm surprised you don't know understand the core of "Democracy", which also tells me that you're against their current system.
Meh... China was not in the verge of becoming an other Europe, Chiang Kai-shek wouldn't have allowed it, the european colonies in China where adapting to the new rulers as they did with the mongols; but the rest of China remembered that after the WWI the german "protectorates" were handed to Japan instead of being returned to China ("thank you very much for all that hand labour but you're a carcass of an imperium to prey on it") and when it turned out to be a Troyan Horse (or a bluff) in all it's glory is when chinese people starts to matter... In my opinion this video overlooks some key factors in order to explain China history, it reeks of "occidental explorer discovering the world".
lmao ok bro...suuuuure....doesn't really matter anyway, the Chinese Communist Party effectively destroyed China much more then the Japanese or any previous ruling government
Marotonella, we are in total agreement. This poorly written and pitiful excuse for a documentary is full of so many outlandish lies that even Pinocchio would be jealous.
I highly disagree... Chiang Kai-shek would've created a New China comparable to Europe in terms of culture, art, freedoms, etc. The CCP taking power is one of the worst things that ever happened in history and cut Korea in half, murdered 50 million people, etc, and still brutally opresses the Korean people and their own people.
When my late father was a young boy and later in his teens,and my long gone great uncles also from Plymouth fought to get postings with The R N to Singapore Base. In hope of the ship calling at Shanghai. Different World, Different Britain.
Two pots of tea and chocolate prepared after cakes have finished baking. Three sugar cubes and the possibility of needing honey. Smaller and dense cookies first then biscuits then cakes then toast with jam or cheese. Crackers and wafers afterwards after cakes are finished. Hot rice wine and more tea. Fish or tofu with rice. Servings portioned and sectioned for texture. The chocolate and cloth in wooden boxes. Hemp or more chocolate without caramel.
WWII started with the Mukden Incident in 1931, when Japan blowing up a railway in Manchuria, China, and blamed it on China to make pretext for the invasion of Manchuria. Then in 1937, with the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, the full launch of invasion of China.
@@TheGreatMandalore Manchuria was invaded first. Qing Dynasty was ruled by the Manchus, so Manchuria was part of Qing dynasty of China. Japanese set up the puppet state of Manchukuo and made the dethroned last emperor Puyi as the puppet ruler of this puppet state. Manchuria is now part of China, the three northeastern provinces of China (Heilongjiang, Liaoning and Jilin). Mukden was the former name of modern Shenyang city of Liaoning province).
@@TheGreatMandalore China used to say WWII anti-Japanese War was eight years counting from the Marco Polo Bridge Incident. Right now, they changed it to include the Mukden Incident (called 9.18 Incident in Chinese) and teach the Chinese that anti-Japanese War was actually 14 years (1931 Mukden Incident - 1945).
During World War II, China was still an agricultural country with no industrial foundation and could not produce even a bullet. However, Japan completed Western industrial civilization earlier than China. China was an agricultural country at that time, and it was already very powerful in being able to withstand the crazy attacks of the Japanese war machine in World War II.
@@thepilgrim6375 Well, this video in a very simple manner shows that Westerners left China because of Japan's attack! That's the basic story of this video. It's a historical fact too. "During World War II Japan, itself a significant imperial power, drove the European powers out of Asia. After the Japanese surrender in 1945, local nationalist movements in the former Asian colonies campaigned for independence rather than a return to European colonial rule." ("Decolonization of Asia and Africa, 1945-1960" by Office of the Historian, Foreign Service Institute: United States Department of State) history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/asia-and-africa#:~:text=In%20the%20mid%20to%20late,and%20territory%20for%20future%20settlement.
@@socrateosWasn’t really caused by Japan, these countries would’ve all left colonization anyway just like how all the African nations became independent in the 1960s. Japan only slightly accelerated the resentment that was already there.
You can't possibly be this ignorant? China also had a friend in the US that vowed to intervene on China's behalf. It's part of the reason they took the Philppines in the Spanish-American war. An American military presence in the region would help secure China's borders against European colonial aggression.
@@eodyn7 🌏🐕🌲🏕 more Americans have been killed BY Americans in AMERICA than ALL the Americans killed in ALL the foreign wars combined that Americans have fought in,mainly thanks to the second amendment ...
HUMAN NATURE my comrade........ask yourself the same question on a MICRO level - why are CRIMINALs so mean and ruthless to their victims!?!?........Hmmm
China has changed so much in the last 100 years. What I find strange is they all dress like Westerners now. They used to have their own traditional fashion for centuries, and I'm sure they still wear it for special holidays but now they dress exactly like people in Western culture. It's kinda eerie.
I find it incredibly racist they wear western people's clothes. Talk about cultural oppropriation. Just like that 1 girl who wore a Chinese dress to her prom and got absolutely destroyed on the internet. /s
@@Gix321yea but they can appropriate everything we have lol. It is a double standard. The West also played a role in this, all the Western fashion companies set up shop over there.
It will be another sign of China's perceived 'surpassing of the declining Westerners' when they begin to discard Western fashion and re-embrace more traditional Chinese ones. A deliberate statement of 'national pride' and perceived superiority. Mark my words. In fact, they're about to pass an actual law right now criminalizing the wearing of clothes that 'hurt the feelings of the Chinese people'. For now, it's aimed at young Chinese wearing typically Japanese-style clothes, like kimonos, Imperial Japanese-style uniforms, even anime-type costumes, but it won't stop there. I've also personally seen young Chinese males re-adopting the hairstyle seen in this video, with the entire front half of the head shaved, and the pig-tail (or whatever it's called) down the back. Not common, obviously. At least not yet.
This entire documentary is pro colonialism propaganda dude 😂 you have obviously hand picked favorite colonists saying "there was apartheid of no kind because some Europeans are on film riding carnival rides w Chinese" 😂 plus they literally erase history of China pretending the 30s were some peaceful economic boom, the Chinese civil war started in the 27 & was ongoing when Japan invaded & wouldn't end until 1949.
It was not the UK that started the Opium War against China, but Jardine Matheson & Co., a member of the international financial capital Rothschild.At the end of Japan's Edo period, Admiral Matthew Perry, who came to Japan to open up Japan, was related by marriage to the Rothschild family.Japan's Meiji Restoration was a farce of conflict between the British and French Rothschilds for financial control.They instigated the civil war from behind the scenes, lent weapons and funds to both sides, and imposed financial control on the Emperor's side, which they hoped would help them win, by burdening them with debt.For this purpose, Thomas Glover of Matheson & Co. was dispatched to Nagasaki, Japan.Weapons used during the American civil war were also repurposed in Japan.Japan's invasion of China and annexation of Korea were also part of Rothschild's strategy to dominate Asia using Japan and to counter Russia.They invested huge amounts of capital and know-how in order to expand Japan overseas, leaving Japan mired in debt and forcing it to undergo rapid modernization.That's why the Sino-Japanese War, the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, and the Russo-Japanese War occurred.Rothschild gave a huge amount of money to Japan in order to get Japan involved in the Russo-Japanese War.So Japan won the war, but the profits were small and debt repayment was prioritized.At that time, it was impossible for Japan, which had limited resources, to rapidly modernize on its own in a short period of time.The essence of World War I was that the British and French Rothschilds attacked Germany and Italy.Since Japan was financially dominated, Japan had to follow suit in Asia as well.Japan defied international financial capital on its way to freedom from being forever deprived of Asia's vast resources and assets.Japan aimed to become an Asian co-prosperity sphere.Therefore, Japan formed an alliance with Germany and Italy.American Jews pressured Japan to go to war.In order to participate in the war, the United States knew about Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in advance and ignored it, presenting itself as a victim.Neumann and other Jews developed the atomic bomb from the beginning with the intention of dropping it on Japan.They claimed that they had no intention of dropping the atomic bomb on Japan after the war.Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which has long been full of Korean residents in Japan, delayed the declaration of war and appealed to the rest of the world that Japan was malicious.They leaked various information overseas in advance, including the attack on Pearl Harbor.International financial capital also used the Soviet Union, which they would later destroy, to counterattack Japan.They brainwashed China and Korea into thinking that Japan was a vicious invader and perpetrator.China and Korea have been fabricating history and teaching anti-Japan for many years in order to steal money from Japan.In China, the financial capital is obstructing the liberation of Asia, covering up a number of malicious obstructions, and still fabricating stories of impossible massacres and cruel Japanese troops.The annexation of Korea was also the intention of international financial capital.It was a stepping stone to the continent.Japan, which hesitated to annex Korea because it would increase debt, abolished the corrupt Korean royal palace, democratized Korea, improved the environment, and promoted industry.Korea wanted to become a powerful country like Japan and repeatedly petitioned Japan for annexation.Korea actively changed its name to Japanese so as not to be ridiculed by Chinese people.After Japan lost the Asian Liberation War, Korea claimed that Korea was a victim of Japan and that Korea was a victorious nation.Korea is still trying to steal money from Japan by creating all kinds of fabrications.Japanese traitors and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stole some large amounts of money and gave it to China and Korea in order to hide it overseas.Japanese people who aimed to liberate Asia were judged as war criminals and executed.Emperor Showa Hirohito apologized to General MacArthur in order to protect the Japanese people.The British Prime Minister, who declared a Cold War on behalf of international financial capital, authorized the dropping of an atomic bomb on Japan.The atomic bomb was not a retaliation for Pearl Harbor, but a retaliation for Japan's efforts to liberate Asia.Chinese people come to Japan and desecrate Yasukuni Shrine, which commemorates the souls of Japanese soldiers who fought for the liberation of Asia.They don't show it on their faces or in their behavior, but that's why Japanese people hate Chinese and Koreans.Many Japanese people do not want Chinese or Koreans to come to Japan.
@@bountyhunter-f6g really? America helped, yes, but only account for 0.5% for Chinese war zone. America should thank Soviet Union, Because without the power of Soviet Union, America would not have been able to defeat Germany and Japan.
China didn't beat Japan. They were a punching bag of Japan from 1937 to 1945. Britain also lost to Japan in Hong Kong, Birma, Singapore etc. US beat Japan single-handedly.
Every time Chinese Communist Party get into political and economical difficulties and got into poor, this kind of films brought to public eyes in order to get aide.
Feeling so sorry to the Chines citiznes. But this war which broke in Beijin once settled down and at that time, Japanese side tried to end the military conflict. But Shangkaisek attept to assult the Japanese citizens living near Sahnghai made Japan mad and made it to determin to star the war. Shangkaisek was trying to keep the war continuing to make Japanexausted and induce the US to suppot China.
Do you ever consider the opinion of real Tibetans? they has always wanted to be part of China. Besides nothing in Tibet can be comparable to the Japanese invasion to China.
Japan just had a residential area in China like other countries. There, expatriates and their families lived and were guarded by Japanese police. At that time, China was not unified or a sovereign nation. Then the Tongzhou Incident occurred, and Japanese expatriates and their families were brutally murdered by Chinese. However, the Japanese government did not immediately take revenge. They held back because they wanted to maintain relations with China. Incidents targeting Japanese nationals occurred frequently, and they were finally forced to take revenge. They had never thought of conquering China, and how could they have managed such a large land if they had thought of conquering it.
So according to you, the full scale of Japanese invasion of China was due to a small group of Japaneses were murdered by Chinese and Japan just wanted to revenge? This must be the most pathetic effort I have read so far trying to rationalize Japan's war crime in WW2.
@@yorkyufan After the Marco Polo Bridge incident on July 7, 1937, the Japanese Army sent officers to the KMT Army to negotiate truce, and it was agreed. Then a week later, another incident started by the KMT side again, the truce was made by the Japanese again. The third one occurred again, and the truce was made again by the Japanese initiative. Actually, the local Chinese radio was busy raising the fighting morale against the Japanese. Then, the massacre of 200 Japanese civilians occurred committed by the Chinese army soldiers. (The gruesome photos of the incidents have been widely used now by the Chinese side as Chinese victims of the Nanjing Massacre and 731 unit operation.) There was public outrage in Japan, naturally. Japanese government who were trying to control their Army there no longer tried to stop the fighting there and unofficially approved their counter attack. Thus, the war started without declaration. The next month, same thing happened in Shanghai. The Japanese local force stationed to protect the Japanese foreign district in Shanghai (They were there like all other western forces protecting each nations districts there.) were attacked by a large KMT force to almost intinction. The Japanese force held out somehow, until Japan sent a large landing force for large scale counter attack. Thus the war expanded nationwide. The KMT told the people that they will pull the Japanese force into the depth of the entire land of China to defeat the Japanese. That's more like a full account of how the war started. So, Japan, didn't started the war nor the government had any intention to invade China. After the war Japan kept insisting this in Tokyo tribunal. All claims of Japan was overpowered and overruled. Even several lawyers from the allied nations said that the trial was totally unfair. So, today, we hear the accounts of the war that mostly contain stories that are convenient to the Allied side. So it's not difficult to refute.
@@KPPUSD you're delusional, Japan already came up with the plan to conquer China in 1927 with the their Continental Policy and had many spies planted in China before that. Why do u think they took Manchuria in 1932? They already had ambitions to take over Asia in the late 19th century and to become a military based country.
This video completely ignores the military operations by the Kuomintang forces that caused the Battle of Shanghai, and immediately skips to a video of Japanese naval artillery fire, making it seem as if the Japanese army suddenly attacked the city of Shanghai. Well, I don't really understand the creator's intentions, but I honestly don't want to trust videos that are edited like propaganda.
“Ignores the military operations by the Kuomintang forces that caused the Battle of Shanghai….”? LOL 😂 Why are the Japanese Imperial Army in China? Is it not the duty of the Chinese forces to repel the invaders?
@@jimshaw9034You don't know the history, right? At that time, France, Germany, Britain, and the United States had troops stationed in Shanghai to protect their interests and maintain public order. There, the troops of each country, including Japan, were legally stationed. Please study the flow of world history from the Boxer rebellion.
@@犬まにまに Following your line, the consequence of Japan’s sneak attack on Pearl Harbor was the firebombing of Tokyo and atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japanese surrender and general MacArthur became the father and ruler rather than the emperor
This is a wonderful presentation of China at a critical point in its history. Several interesting commentaries by Chinese "experts." I have to take issue with one of the Chinese experts in this documentary. The documentary never presented her name, but she is the young Chinese woman expert commentator wearing spectacles and a red blouse. She had made three comments throughout the documentary and it was one of her comments towards the end of the documentary that was disturbing. She commented that the Chinese Communist won the Chinese Civil War between the Communists and Nationalists, and the Communists put an end to inflation and corruption. I am amazed at what people say on documentaries. I understand there are people with different political agendas and they distort reality to support their own agenda. China was suffering from overthrowing the Qing Imperial Government, violence between Chinese warlords, invasion by Imperial Japanese Army, and confrontation between Chinese Communists and the Chinese Nationalists (Republicans who overthrew the Qing Emperor). These violent conflicts had been occurring from 1894 up to 1945. Needless to say you cannot produce food from agricultural during war and lawlessness. The fiat (paper) money has no value, that is runaway inflation. So is inflation caused by the Chinese Nationalist Government or is it caused by violence, chaos, and lawlessness. When the Chinese Communist was on the verge of destruction by the Chinese Nationalist Army, Mao led the Chinese Communist on the "Long March" in 1933-1934 to safety in the Northeastern part of China where the Imperial Japanese Army was in firm control by establishing the Manchu Guo (Manchu Nation) where former Qing Emperor was place back on the thrown as a puppet government of the Japanese Emperor. The Chinese Communists were seeking protection from a foreign invading force of China. Needless to say it seems Mao Zedong and his Chinese Communist Party members are aligned with the Emperor of Japan, causing chaos for the legitimate Chinese Nationalist Government. Can the Chinese Nationalist Government control inflation when the second largest political party of China is in collaboration with the invading Japanese Imperial Army and the former Qing Emperor of China? Just who is corrupt? The Chinese Communist Party who is aligned with the Emperor of Japan and the former Qing Emperor. Or the Government of the Republic of China (the Chinese Nationalist Government who overthrew the Qing Emperor) and whose army is fighting the invading Imperial Japanese Forces? It seems this young lady wearing spectacles and a red blouse has a very strange definition of corruption. In addition, this young lady wearing spectacles have no idea what an economy is. She has no idea what causes inflation, i.e. devaluation of paper money. In fact she seems to be suffering from Chinese Communistitis. The inability to associate words and their definition with reality. Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communists are the biggest liars in human history. A modern Republic requires a division of political power into the Executive, the Legislative, and the Judicial Branches. All three branches have the ability to check one another. No one branch has absolute power. There are multiple political parties. In each branch of government there are members from different political parties. This built-in regulatory mechanism prevents one political party from corruption. The executive and legislative branch of government are elected by the people. This ensures that the interest of the people are implemented. The Chinese Communist Government calls China the People's Republic of China. Communist China is not a modern "Republic." There is no division of power. Xi Ji Ping is head of the Chinese Communist Party and head of the Chinese Communist Military. He has absolute power just like Mao Zedong and Deng Xiao Ping. There is no debate in the Chinese Communist House of Representatives. No one in China voted for Xi Ji Ping nor the Chinese Communist Party. Chinese Communist Party rules China because the Chinese Communist Army, Navy, and Air Force impose Communist rule over China. Communist China is not a democracy nor a republic. China is the Empire of Chinese Communist Party. The Empire of Chinese Communist Party is the actual words that clearly define reality.
"the Northeastern part of China where the Imperial Japanese Army was in firm control by establishing the Manchu Guo (Manchu Nation) where former Qing Emperor was place back on the thrown as a puppet government of the Japanese Emperor. The Chinese Communists were seeking protection from a foreign invading force of China. " 任何了解这段历史或者知晓中国地理的人看到这段评论都会发笑。
why history don't fit you then it become a propaganda? nothing will change your mind, you just believe what you are brainwashed by western media. shame on you
Well its not really a country anyway. No one except a couple obscure central American countries and some island-nations in the pacific recognize Taiwan as a country.
I love thhese old films. Thanks for preserving them. Thanks for posting, you can never know to much about our past.
Amazing collection, and the way it was edited to tell the historic and cultural story was very emotionally impactful. Thank you for your work.
Man world war Japan was such a Chad country. Long live the emperor
@@dhimankalita1690r
it's sad how the Communist Party ended up destroying more of China itself then Japan did...such recordings we have here are one of the few glimpses we can see of many now destroyed cultural locations and way of life
I wonder why they never upload the documentary of invasion of Tibett and how they massacred around 1 million serfs
@@factspoken9062 Because the British doesn't have it and there were no one million serfs being massacred.
It’s amazing I see Ms Peng Wenlan again after so many years, it was her voice that never changes. It was in 80’s when she was in China appeared in China Central Television program, teaching English, and she also hosted some other programs.
Wonderful find. Preserve these images for generations to come.
Thanks for the record
Brilliant, thank you for sharing. All the best.
Excellent! Thanks for this 2nd episode. Please keep providing them, so long as there are any available. These truly are fascinating.
Sadly to tell you, this video is not objective because the comments in it are employed by CCP
I use to live in Shanghai. I would go to the French Concession and see the different foreign embassies. I use to walk to the Bund and gaze at the Huangpu River that separates Puxi (west area) from Pudong ( east area). Shanghai is one of the most beautiful cities I’ve ever seen.
The smell of a place I've never been has always seemed enchanting.
Loving these docs... keep them coming!
Man world war Japan was such a Chad country. Long live the emperor
@@dhimankalita1690they were worse than the nazis
Chang yo , amazing
Is that why both countries had Ship visits,up until the end of World War 11 ! The Rome Berlin Axis,eventually included Japan !@@user-ee3wb2ke4g
Sure, - Do The Jews Know That ?@@user-ee3wb2ke4g
War is a curse on human beings forever,peace & love must be there from all citizens of World ❤
God didn't create human to coexist peacefully.
Yes He did !!@@ivanteo1973
@@ivanteo1973*_humans created god to explain their existence and justify / excuse their heinous actions towards each other_*
Love this channel and its content. I want to thank you for continuing to share such amazing audiovisual gems.
Enjoyed the super imposing of videos of the past on the street signs of modern times.
I was fortunate to travel in China in 1983 shortly after "Independent Travel" was permitted. Before then, travel was restricted to escorted groups.
Although not too long ago, it was a different world compared to twenty or even ten years later. The majority of older men all wore the blue "Mao Suits" There was generally no refrigeration even in the cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Xian. Having lived in Taiwan for several years, I spoke enough Mandarin to get by. I knew how to say "Cold drink", but never received one. People laughed or just shook their head. There was one place in Beijing where one could get a cold Coke, but you had to show your passport to get into this so called "Friendship Store". "Foreigners only" said the sign on the door.
Chinese who spoke English were almost non existent. Other foreign travelers asked if they could come along when I went to get meals. They had a lot of trouble getting served at eating places because they couldn't make themselves understood. Even restaurants were few and far between.
I'm glad to have seen China back then. The stark contrast between what I saw in person and what I've seen on TV even back in the 2000's is amazing.
和现在的朝鲜很像
@@吴海明-d9h Haven't been to North Korean. I'm sure its worse there, much worse.
@@吴海明-d9h 沒去過北韓。 我確信那裡的情況更糟，更糟。
@@Pepeekeo808 嗯，朝鲜人生活一定会差很多，每年都有逃亡到中国东北地区的难民
@@Pepeekeo808为什么不去看看
It's really interesting to see the history of our country in a different perspective, ty for the content
ppl were so skinny back in that time lol, it's healthy lol, nice documentary btw, i was kinda eyes opening in a good way
Just out of curiosity, for those who were publicly educated US students, did your history classes cover any of the major events that occurred in China/Philippines/SE Asia during WWII? Or was it like my classes that almost exclusively covered Pearl Harbor, Germany/Europe & the holocaust? Aside from atomic bombs, my classes seemed to mostly ignore significant Japanese events...
Everyone is promoting the destructive power of the atomic bomb, but no one has ever explained why Japan was attacked by the atomic bomb. Is Japan innocent?
We have Asian history class in the high school I went to (South Pasadena class of 1989). If you're expecting China to be the center of our study, sorry to burst your bubbles, but we covered everyone in the region with equal unbiased points of view. 😈🤷♂️😁
@@willywonka4340 Seems like the right approach. Is it possible your curriculum was less biased due to demographic influences in your region...? My AZ schools were primarily white & almost entirely focused on the holocaust & Europe. We got to meet a holocaust survivor too, but we never covered most of the pacific theater or anything about China.
@@吃肉的蜥蜴 They did teach us about pearl harbor & a few of the Japanese atrocities. I'm not sure the use of A-bombs is much of a mystery 🤷♂️
@@billymadison8574 I believe it was due to the fact that one of the faculty was a Japanese American who lived through the internment period as a young boy. He was a graduate of the same school and decided to return as a history teacher. I would think that we wouldn't have Asian history if it weren't for him. We also had regular world history course ( i.e. mostly Eurocentric lol) taught by someone else, so I took that class too 😆.
So to your original question, yes and no, it is sorta regional but then again, south Pasadena made up of only 10% ish Asian in the 80s but to my knowledge, the neighboring suburb cities of Alhambra and Monterey Park didn't have a high school Asian History course in the 80s, but at least 50% of student bodies were Asians i.e. Chinese but that might not be the case these days anymore, they may have Asian history classes now, not sure 🤷♂️😁
I wish there were no authoritarian, militaristic governments and countries to interfere with the beautiful, sprawling developments of these cities and lands. Peace, liberty and trade builds up, but hostility, racism and war only ever tears down.
Amazing to have this footage. I have also looked for the same in Indonesia (Dutch East Indies) during the war in my research for a memoir/cultural history.
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Thank you for sharing true history to the world.
I LOVE YOU "TIMELINE".... awesome docs
Good documentary. Way too many annoying ads.
get adblocker or pay for youtube premium. You only have yourself to blame for suffering through that in this day and age honestly
So many adds!
Just pay your serf fee to Leftist Google rulers 😢
Lol globa ad blocker isn't on phones and why would I pay extra money to a company who doesn't like freedom of speech?
@@太好了F That's how they pay for the costs involved in hosting such videos. This is what capitalism is all about. If you pay for TH-cam Premium, you don't get the ads.
the amount of long adds on these videos is obscene. Please dial it back a little
Awesome! I loved every moment of this! By not supporting China in her hour of need the west missed the opportunity to have China as a democratic friend. I lived in Shanghai as a teacher, my wife is Shanghainese I love every inch of this city. Thank you so much, I was moved greatly as I viewed this wonderful footage 🙏🙏🙏
More than that, by the time China was about to stand up on her feet, the westerns especially USA sold her to USSR.
"Democracy" is merely an empty name in the West. As a teacher I'm surprised you don't know understand the core of "Democracy", which also tells me that you're against their current system.
Enjoy your nickle
You have to be kidding. Democratic friend? The CCP does not know what that means. Your government is not interested in democracy.
No more wars!!!
I expected to see good old film clips of china. Instead I see modern people talking about good old film clips of china.
Yes with Chinese propaganda along the way. Anyone with any knowledge of China would find this series painful
Agreed
They’re discussing them because at that time there was no sound in films , so they’re giving perspective .
@@Jatadhari1000 fine for me. Then why do I constantly see their faces?
It is called a documentary, all historical good ole silent clips need a narrative, or it’s pre 1929.
Talk about the evil unit 731 please.
There are a good number of documentaries about it on here
@@matthewnikitas8905 I don't think enough people know about it.
Man world war Japan was such a Chad country. Long live the emperor
@@dhimankalita1690being a chad doesn’t mean your a rapist/cannibal/war criminal
@henrypollock7987 also polluting the ocean water last month with their radioactive water
just that opening scene with ceiling high stacks of film OMG
digitize it
Interesting documentary
You can hear the instruction of "Open Fire" in Cantonese in the film
Fantastic Film!!!
国士忠骨，必枕汉土。国士英魂，永佑中华。前世之师，后世不忘。
Man world war Japan was such a Chad country. Long live the emperor
@@dhimankalita1690 Japan would be nothing without China and their culture all originated from China.
@@dhimankalita1690 I know you come from a poor country it’s okay Indian weeb. Silly punk. Japan have their culture and country from China.
@@dhimankalita1690🤓:
@@dhimankalita1690 They lost, we won. Long live China
The most important aspect of creativity and innovation is not being afraid to fail.
Meh... China was not in the verge of becoming an other Europe, Chiang Kai-shek wouldn't have allowed it, the european colonies in China where adapting to the new rulers as they did with the mongols; but the rest of China remembered that after the WWI the german "protectorates" were handed to Japan instead of being returned to China ("thank you very much for all that hand labour but you're a carcass of an imperium to prey on it") and when it turned out to be a Troyan Horse (or a bluff) in all it's glory is when chinese people starts to matter... In my opinion this video overlooks some key factors in order to explain China history, it reeks of "occidental explorer discovering the world".
YOU TALKED NONSENSE.
lmao ok bro...suuuuure....doesn't really matter anyway, the Chinese Communist Party effectively destroyed China much more then the Japanese or any previous ruling government
I don’t understand what you’re trying to say
Marotonella, we are in total agreement. This poorly written and pitiful excuse for a documentary is full of so many outlandish lies that even Pinocchio would be jealous.
I highly disagree... Chiang Kai-shek would've created a New China comparable to Europe in terms of culture, art, freedoms, etc. The CCP taking power is one of the worst things that ever happened in history and cut Korea in half, murdered 50 million people, etc, and still brutally opresses the Korean people and their own people.
Thank you.
LOVED this. Very informative yet personal . Thanks for your skilful work .
Very interesting, to say the least. I had no idea how "westernized" China was, pre-war. Thanks ...
depends on where you were in China. Shanghai was very cosmopolitan
I'm really enjoying this, but had to stop at 8:04 to say that there is no way that those shots and those cars are from 1900. Silly mistake.
Incredibly sad, mighty work to show us all this
There was no middle class it was the rich minority with western influence and the poor. That's why Mao succeeded to came in power.
a nation will be screwed 'once the MIDDLE CLASS' does not exist..........Hmmm
1937…The year when WW2 ACTUALLY STARTED.
Absolutely Incorrect
1931 would b the answer of someone who showz interest in educating themselvez on the subject
@@-Sierra117-with that grammar we know you are not thar well educated, my friend.
It's a pity this documentary hasn't mentioned the xi'an incident which is the turnpoint of CCP and KMT 's advantage and disadvantage position.
Exactly!!
Beautiful footage! Amazing images. Thank you very much for bringing these film to us. Just beautiful as i said!
01:47 Is that where the Tank Man stood?
Can't believe these films were made between 86 to 100 years ago. A window into the past and it's fun watching history as it unfolded.
Yes, and still better film quality than capturing big foot or a UFO.
@@larryb982 Maybe it's just cuz bigfoot and UFO's are blurry & camera shy irl 🤷♂
When my late father was a young boy and later in his teens,and my long gone great uncles also from Plymouth fought to get postings with The R N to Singapore Base. In hope of the ship calling at Shanghai. Different World, Different Britain.
Two pots of tea and chocolate prepared after cakes have finished baking.
Three sugar cubes and the possibility of needing honey.
Smaller and dense cookies first then biscuits then cakes then toast with jam or cheese. Crackers and wafers afterwards after cakes are finished.
Hot rice wine and more tea.
Fish or tofu with rice.
Servings portioned and sectioned for texture.
The chocolate and cloth in wooden boxes. Hemp or more chocolate without caramel.
Haven't seen most of them before. Thanks for the upload.
Thank you for preserving history to share with everyone.
Interesting video. It was annoying, however, to pause frequently for that camera to whiz. Avoid that, please.
非常好的档案。和现在的上海对照编写, 古今交织。
I was really fascinated by Richard Martin, an armature filmmaker who married to a Japanese woman. I want to know more about his story (history).
amateur
WWII started with the Mukden Incident in 1931, when Japan blowing up a railway in Manchuria, China, and blamed it on China to make pretext for the invasion of Manchuria. Then in 1937, with the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, the full launch of invasion of China.
Kinda like united states does
Good justified times
The manchuria annexation and the bombing if the railway was a local conflict not the start of ww2. The Marco polo bridge however was the start of ww2
@@TheGreatMandalore Manchuria was invaded first. Qing Dynasty was ruled by the Manchus, so Manchuria was part of Qing dynasty of China. Japanese set up the puppet state of Manchukuo and made the dethroned last emperor Puyi as the puppet ruler of this puppet state. Manchuria is now part of China, the three northeastern provinces of China (Heilongjiang, Liaoning and Jilin). Mukden was the former name of modern Shenyang city of Liaoning province).
@@TheGreatMandalore China used to say WWII anti-Japanese War was eight years counting from the Marco Polo Bridge Incident. Right now, they changed it to include the Mukden Incident (called 9.18 Incident in Chinese) and teach the Chinese that anti-Japanese War was actually 14 years (1931 Mukden Incident - 1945).
Great documentary video
我喜欢这些政治上没有偏见的内容
The commentators in the video are employed by CCP
During World War II, China was still an agricultural country with no industrial foundation and could not produce even a bullet. However, Japan completed Western industrial civilization earlier than China. China was an agricultural country at that time, and it was already very powerful in being able to withstand the crazy attacks of the Japanese war machine in World War II.
Basically, it shows why the Western colonization did not go beyond China; they met Japan's resistance.
WRONG, LEARN MORE.
@@thepilgrim6375
Well, this video in a very simple manner shows that Westerners left China because of Japan's attack! That's the basic story of this video.
It's a historical fact too. "During World War II Japan, itself a significant imperial power, drove the European powers out of Asia. After the Japanese surrender in 1945, local nationalist movements in the former Asian colonies campaigned for independence rather than a return to European colonial rule."
("Decolonization of Asia and Africa, 1945-1960" by Office of the Historian, Foreign Service Institute: United States Department of State)
history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/asia-and-africa#:~:text=In%20the%20mid%20to%20late,and%20territory%20for%20future%20settlement.
@@socrateosWasn’t really caused by Japan, these countries would’ve all left colonization anyway just like how all the African nations became independent in the 1960s. Japan only slightly accelerated the resentment that was already there.
You can't possibly be this ignorant? China also had a friend in the US that vowed to intervene on China's behalf. It's part of the reason they took the Philppines in the Spanish-American war. An American military presence in the region would help secure China's borders against European colonial aggression.
@@eodyn7 🌏🐕🌲🏕 more Americans have been killed BY Americans in AMERICA than ALL the Americans killed in ALL the foreign wars combined that Americans have fought in,mainly thanks to the second amendment ...
Why are us humans so mean and ruthless? I just don't understand it?
HUMAN NATURE my comrade........ask yourself the same question on a MICRO level - why are CRIMINALs so mean and ruthless to their victims!?!?........Hmmm
So much pain and suffering
cultural revolution
我很心痛💔
China has changed so much in the last 100 years. What I find strange is they all dress like Westerners now. They used to have their own traditional fashion for centuries, and I'm sure they still wear it for special holidays but now they dress exactly like people in Western culture. It's kinda eerie.
This is the case in most of Asia now, no? Globalism 🤮
I find it incredibly racist they wear western people's clothes. Talk about cultural oppropriation. Just like that 1 girl who wore a Chinese dress to her prom and got absolutely destroyed on the internet. /s
@@Gix321yea but they can appropriate everything we have lol. It is a double standard. The West also played a role in this, all the Western fashion companies set up shop over there.
It's almost as if Western powers colonized Asia for centuries
It will be another sign of China's perceived 'surpassing of the declining Westerners' when they begin to discard Western fashion and re-embrace more traditional Chinese ones. A deliberate statement of 'national pride' and perceived superiority.
Mark my words.
In fact, they're about to pass an actual law right now criminalizing the wearing of clothes that 'hurt the feelings of the Chinese people'. For now, it's aimed at young Chinese wearing typically Japanese-style clothes, like kimonos, Imperial Japanese-style uniforms, even anime-type costumes, but it won't stop there.
I've also personally seen young Chinese males re-adopting the hairstyle seen in this video, with the entire front half of the head shaved, and the pig-tail (or whatever it's called) down the back.
Not common, obviously. At least not yet.
Funny, this video cannot be play in Choina...even with VPN!!
I notice traffic is on the left-hand side during this period.
cuz Shanghai was on British control captain obvious lol.
@@globaladdict yep
@@chrisbacosLater when general Wedemeyer came to China, he suggested to change it to right hand side. British wasn't happy.
@@fargr5926 now I know thanks
回到過去,感受中國人當年的苦難而悲哀,今日再能立足世界確實不是容易的事.為國家抗擊入侵者和建設的英雄們致敬!!!!!!!!!!!
是的，我们需要研究过去，向过去学习，但我们不能活在过去。这就是习近平的问题，他要重新打过去的战争、清算恩怨。中国迫切需要一位能够融入国际社会、具有前瞻性的新领导人。
@@peterfreiling6963 你被西方媒体洗脑才会这样想，中国只想发展，根本没有想要战争。
谁先发动贸易战？谁先对中国科技制裁？谁天天绕着中国军演？西方帝国主义想要维持霸权，不允许中国崛起，中国仅仅是反制而已。
cultural revolution
對，世代不忘外族侵略，致敬保家衛國英烈
이때의 중국 🇹🇼
Qing dynasty was the humiliation of all Chinese.
At least the Qing Dynasty added Xinjiang and Tibet to China and didn't lose too much land, except for the Outer Northeast.
没看到1个中文发言在提感谢这个摄影者的事。是听不懂英文。。。还是。。。
我也發現：說中文的人是不會講多謝的人。也許他們只會講感謝共產黨！呵呵
DW documental?
Could have done without the bg music
So well done!
It's ok but there's too much advertising for me .
28:04 min “ ..in the way , it’s natural course, democracy and westernization “ A very colonial comment from a colonized Chinese.
This entire documentary is pro colonialism propaganda dude 😂 you have obviously hand picked favorite colonists saying "there was apartheid of no kind because some Europeans are on film riding carnival rides w Chinese" 😂 plus they literally erase history of China pretending the 30s were some peaceful economic boom, the Chinese civil war started in the 27 & was ongoing when Japan invaded & wouldn't end until 1949.
Very cognitive and interesting. Thank you for your efforts.
Post more Japan ww2 sia stories please
They would be too horrific seeing saps bayoneting young children and mothers and laughing and joking at the same time .
It was not the UK that started the Opium War against China, but Jardine Matheson & Co., a member of the international financial capital Rothschild.At the end of Japan's Edo period, Admiral Matthew Perry, who came to Japan to open up Japan, was related by marriage to the Rothschild family.Japan's Meiji Restoration was a farce of conflict between the British and French Rothschilds for financial control.They instigated the civil war from behind the scenes, lent weapons and funds to both sides, and imposed financial control on the Emperor's side, which they hoped would help them win, by burdening them with debt.For this purpose, Thomas Glover of Matheson & Co. was dispatched to Nagasaki, Japan.Weapons used during the American civil war were also repurposed in Japan.Japan's invasion of China and annexation of Korea were also part of Rothschild's strategy to dominate Asia using Japan and to counter Russia.They invested huge amounts of capital and know-how in order to expand Japan overseas, leaving Japan mired in debt and forcing it to undergo rapid modernization.That's why the Sino-Japanese War, the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, and the Russo-Japanese War occurred.Rothschild gave a huge amount of money to Japan in order to get Japan involved in the Russo-Japanese War.So Japan won the war, but the profits were small and debt repayment was prioritized.At that time, it was impossible for Japan, which had limited resources, to rapidly modernize on its own in a short period of time.The essence of World War I was that the British and French Rothschilds attacked Germany and Italy.Since Japan was financially dominated, Japan had to follow suit in Asia as well.Japan defied international financial capital on its way to freedom from being forever deprived of Asia's vast resources and assets.Japan aimed to become an Asian co-prosperity sphere.Therefore, Japan formed an alliance with Germany and Italy.American Jews pressured Japan to go to war.In order to participate in the war, the United States knew about Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in advance and ignored it, presenting itself as a victim.Neumann and other Jews developed the atomic bomb from the beginning with the intention of dropping it on Japan.They claimed that they had no intention of dropping the atomic bomb on Japan after the war.Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which has long been full of Korean residents in Japan, delayed the declaration of war and appealed to the rest of the world that Japan was malicious.They leaked various information overseas in advance, including the attack on Pearl Harbor.International financial capital also used the Soviet Union, which they would later destroy, to counterattack Japan.They brainwashed China and Korea into thinking that Japan was a vicious invader and perpetrator.China and Korea have been fabricating history and teaching anti-Japan for many years in order to steal money from Japan.In China, the financial capital is obstructing the liberation of Asia, covering up a number of malicious obstructions, and still fabricating stories of impossible massacres and cruel Japanese troops.The annexation of Korea was also the intention of international financial capital.It was a stepping stone to the continent.Japan, which hesitated to annex Korea because it would increase debt, abolished the corrupt Korean royal palace, democratized Korea, improved the environment, and promoted industry.Korea wanted to become a powerful country like Japan and repeatedly petitioned Japan for annexation.Korea actively changed its name to Japanese so as not to be ridiculed by Chinese people.After Japan lost the Asian Liberation War, Korea claimed that Korea was a victim of Japan and that Korea was a victorious nation.Korea is still trying to steal money from Japan by creating all kinds of fabrications.Japanese traitors and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stole some large amounts of money and gave it to China and Korea in order to hide it overseas.Japanese people who aimed to liberate Asia were judged as war criminals and executed.Emperor Showa Hirohito apologized to General MacArthur in order to protect the Japanese people.The British Prime Minister, who declared a Cold War on behalf of international financial capital, authorized the dropping of an atomic bomb on Japan.The atomic bomb was not a retaliation for Pearl Harbor, but a retaliation for Japan's efforts to liberate Asia.Chinese people come to Japan and desecrate Yasukuni Shrine, which commemorates the souls of Japanese soldiers who fought for the liberation of Asia.They don't show it on their faces or in their behavior, but that's why Japanese people hate Chinese and Koreans.Many Japanese people do not want Chinese or Koreans to come to Japan.
長文が過ぎませんか？あと貴方の歴史認識にソースはありますか？日本が置かれている状況に黙っていられない気持ちはわかりますが、書かれた内容は日本人の私から見てもわかりかねる内容がほとんどです。
今世界中から日本人が歴史を認めず改ざんしようとしていると言われています。
貴方が正しい歴史を知っているのでしたら、是非とも資料を提示した動画を貴方の声で発信してほしいし観てみたいです。
China should thank America
why？
@@jackychen5578 Because without the power of the United States, China would not have been able to defeat Japan.
@@bountyhunter-f6g really? America helped, yes, but only account for 0.5% for Chinese war zone. America should thank Soviet Union, Because without the power of Soviet Union, America would not have been able to defeat Germany and Japan.
在整个二战期间，美国一共援助了500亿美元给其他国家，其中英国占40%，苏联占35%，中国有8亿美元,占总额仅1.6%
China didn't beat Japan. They were a punching bag of Japan from 1937 to 1945. Britain also lost to Japan in Hong Kong, Birma, Singapore etc. US beat Japan single-handedly.
"This is the shopping district..... in 1900..."
( sees 1930s model cars )
Riiiiiiiiiight......
Manchukuo is one of the keys to understanding the modern world. Lets talk about it
Very well made..
Man in the High Tower vibes here.
Clickbait title, a few minutes of footage been around for a long time
Weird. You titled the video "China On Film" but Shanghai was a colony of Europeans and Japanese.
…in China
Every time Chinese Communist Party get into political and economical difficulties and got into poor, this kind of films brought to public eyes in order to get aide.
Wait..throughout this film, modern means western clothing … does not make sense to me
Feeling so sorry to the Chines citiznes. But this war which broke in Beijin once settled down and at that time, Japanese side tried to end the military conflict. But Shangkaisek attept to assult the Japanese citizens living near Sahnghai made Japan mad and made it to determin to star the war. Shangkaisek was trying to keep the war continuing to make Japanexausted and induce the US to suppot China.
I wonder if film like this was ever taken of Tibet? If there was, the Chinese government would have destroyed it some time ago.
There are some footages of PRC invaders beating Tibetan monks.
This video is an edited propaganda skipping many other inconvenient footages.
Do you ever consider the opinion of real Tibetans? they has always wanted to be part of China. Besides nothing in Tibet can be comparable to the Japanese invasion to China.
th-cam.com/video/tkSsGU1Y0rw/w-d-xo.html
@@alee2204I'll assume this is a weak attempt at trolling. Try harder next time.
LOL, you just have no courage to accept the reality, I encourage you to go to China to talk to the real Tibetans@@michaelsummerell8618
What about invasion of Tibett, and the looting of thousands of monasteries? Any pics or documents
観覧車のシーンには和服の女性が写ってるね。
女性のチャイナドレスなどは、漢族のようには見えない。
その部分は満州の映像じゃないかな？
戦時中、満州に住んでいた中国人は、日本にいた日本人よりも幸せな生活を送っていた。日本が負けたことで逆に酷い生活に戻された中国人も大勢いる。
WOW
and also pls show japan731 army
中国人を何人も救済した救護部隊の話ですね。
The intent was modetnization, not necessarily westernizationl
Chiang pleaded with Roosevelt for help, but he basically ignored the pleading .
Because Chiang made some very stupid decisions
cuz before Pearl Harbor, US's top enemy is not Axis, but Stalin.
所以现在美国有一个意识形态对立的强大的敌人
Japan has a very thin veneer of civilized behavior.
No mention about the Nankin massacre. Or the alliance held by the KMT and the CCP until 1945. There is an obvios bias all along the doc.
I got irritated by the unnecessary commentary overlaid over everything. I don't need to be told what to think.
Japan just had a residential area in China like other countries. There, expatriates and their families lived and were guarded by Japanese police. At that time, China was not unified or a sovereign nation. Then the Tongzhou Incident occurred, and Japanese expatriates and their families were brutally murdered by Chinese. However, the Japanese government did not immediately take revenge. They held back because they wanted to maintain relations with China. Incidents targeting Japanese nationals occurred frequently, and they were finally forced to take revenge. They had never thought of conquering China, and how could they have managed such a large land if they had thought of conquering it.
So according to you, the full scale of Japanese invasion of China was due to a small group of Japaneses were murdered by Chinese and Japan just wanted to revenge? This must be the most pathetic effort I have read so far trying to rationalize Japan's war crime in WW2.
Japanese militaries alive and well, ready to strike again!
@@yorkyufan After the Marco Polo Bridge incident on July 7, 1937, the Japanese Army sent officers to the KMT Army to negotiate truce, and it was agreed. Then a week later, another incident started by the KMT side again, the truce was made by the Japanese again. The third one occurred again, and the truce was made again by the Japanese initiative. Actually, the local Chinese radio was busy raising the fighting morale against the Japanese. Then, the massacre of 200 Japanese civilians occurred committed by the Chinese army soldiers. (The gruesome photos of the incidents have been widely used now by the Chinese side as Chinese victims of the Nanjing Massacre and 731 unit operation.) There was public outrage in Japan, naturally. Japanese government who were trying to control their Army there no longer tried to stop the fighting there and unofficially approved their counter attack. Thus, the war started without declaration. The next month, same thing happened in Shanghai. The Japanese local force stationed to protect the Japanese foreign district in Shanghai (They were there like all other western forces protecting each nations districts there.) were attacked by a large KMT force to almost intinction. The Japanese force held out somehow, until Japan sent a large landing force for large scale counter attack. Thus the war expanded nationwide. The KMT told the people that they will pull the Japanese force into the depth of the entire land of China to defeat the Japanese. That's more like a full account of how the war started.
So, Japan, didn't started the war nor the government had any intention to invade China. After the war Japan kept insisting this in Tokyo tribunal. All claims of Japan was overpowered and overruled. Even several lawyers from the allied nations said that the trial was totally unfair.
So, today, we hear the accounts of the war that mostly contain stories that are convenient to the Allied side. So it's not difficult to refute.
@@KPPUSD you're delusional, Japan already came up with the plan to conquer China in 1927 with the their Continental Policy and had many spies planted in China before that. Why do u think they took Manchuria in 1932? They already had ambitions to take over Asia in the late 19th century and to become a military based country.
@@yorkyufan That's what they teach at Japanese schools, fake history
Wow .
Wow.
. People talking about stuff u wont see hear
This video completely ignores the military operations by the Kuomintang forces that caused the Battle of Shanghai, and immediately skips to a video of Japanese naval artillery fire, making it seem as if the Japanese army suddenly attacked the city of Shanghai. Well, I don't really understand the creator's intentions, but I honestly don't want to trust videos that are edited like propaganda.
YOU KNOW NOTHING. LEARN MORE.
“Ignores the military operations by the Kuomintang forces that caused the Battle of Shanghai….”? LOL 😂
Why are the Japanese Imperial Army in China? Is it not the duty of the Chinese forces to repel the invaders?
Brain washed by Japanese militarism 👎🏻
@@jimshaw9034You don't know the history, right? At that time, France, Germany, Britain, and the United States had troops stationed in Shanghai to protect their interests and maintain public order. There, the troops of each country, including Japan, were legally stationed. Please study the flow of world history from the Boxer rebellion.
@@犬まにまに
Following your line, the consequence of Japan’s sneak attack on Pearl Harbor was the firebombing of Tokyo and atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japanese surrender and general MacArthur became the father and ruler rather than the emperor
This is a wonderful presentation of China at a critical point in its history. Several interesting commentaries by Chinese "experts." I have to take issue with one of the Chinese experts in this documentary. The documentary never presented her name, but she is the young Chinese woman expert commentator wearing spectacles and a red blouse. She had made three comments throughout the documentary and it was one of her comments towards the end of the documentary that was disturbing. She commented that the Chinese Communist won the Chinese Civil War between the Communists and Nationalists, and the Communists put an end to inflation and corruption. I am amazed at what people say on documentaries. I understand there are people with different political agendas and they distort reality to support their own agenda. China was suffering from overthrowing the Qing Imperial Government, violence between Chinese warlords, invasion by Imperial Japanese Army, and confrontation between Chinese Communists and the Chinese Nationalists (Republicans who overthrew the Qing Emperor). These violent conflicts had been occurring from 1894 up to 1945. Needless to say you cannot produce food from agricultural during war and lawlessness. The fiat (paper) money has no value, that is runaway inflation. So is inflation caused by the Chinese Nationalist Government or is it caused by violence, chaos, and lawlessness. When the Chinese Communist was on the verge of destruction by the Chinese Nationalist Army, Mao led the Chinese Communist on the "Long March" in 1933-1934 to safety in the Northeastern part of China where the Imperial Japanese Army was in firm control by establishing the Manchu Guo (Manchu Nation) where former Qing Emperor was place back on the thrown as a puppet government of the Japanese Emperor. The Chinese Communists were seeking protection from a foreign invading force of China. Needless to say it seems Mao Zedong and his Chinese Communist Party members are aligned with the Emperor of Japan, causing chaos for the legitimate Chinese Nationalist Government. Can the Chinese Nationalist Government control inflation when the second largest political party of China is in collaboration with the invading Japanese Imperial Army and the former Qing Emperor of China? Just who is corrupt? The Chinese Communist Party who is aligned with the Emperor of Japan and the former Qing Emperor. Or the Government of the Republic of China (the Chinese Nationalist Government who overthrew the Qing Emperor) and whose army is fighting the invading Imperial Japanese Forces? It seems this young lady wearing spectacles and a red blouse has a very strange definition of corruption. In addition, this young lady wearing spectacles have no idea what an economy is. She has no idea what causes inflation, i.e. devaluation of paper money. In fact she seems to be suffering from Chinese Communistitis. The inability to associate words and their definition with reality. Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communists are the biggest liars in human history. A modern Republic requires a division of political power into the Executive, the Legislative, and the Judicial Branches. All three branches have the ability to check one another. No one branch has absolute power. There are multiple political parties. In each branch of government there are members from different political parties. This built-in regulatory mechanism prevents one political party from corruption. The executive and legislative branch of government are elected by the people. This ensures that the interest of the people are implemented. The Chinese Communist Government calls China the People's Republic of China. Communist China is not a modern "Republic." There is no division of power. Xi Ji Ping is head of the Chinese Communist Party and head of the Chinese Communist Military. He has absolute power just like Mao Zedong and Deng Xiao Ping. There is no debate in the Chinese Communist House of Representatives. No one in China voted for Xi Ji Ping nor the Chinese Communist Party. Chinese Communist Party rules China because the Chinese Communist Army, Navy, and Air Force impose Communist rule over China. Communist China is not a democracy nor a republic. China is the Empire of Chinese Communist Party. The Empire of Chinese Communist Party is the actual words that clearly define reality.
"the Northeastern part of China where the Imperial Japanese Army was in firm control by establishing the Manchu Guo (Manchu Nation) where former Qing Emperor was place back on the thrown as a puppet government of the Japanese Emperor. The Chinese Communists were seeking protection from a foreign invading force of China. " 任何了解这段历史或者知晓中国地理的人看到这段评论都会发笑。
The massacre at nanking in 1937 was more deadlier than the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima.
cultural revolution
Never forget, never forgive
毛沢東は延安にお隠れになっていた。よな
"Taiwan, which has a separate government at the moment..."
Ok, so is this "documentary" just mainlander propaganda? Should I just stop watching?
why history don't fit you then it become a propaganda? nothing will change your mind, you just believe what you are brainwashed by western media. shame on you
Well its not really a country anyway. No one except a couple obscure central American countries and some island-nations in the pacific recognize Taiwan as a country.