A real treasure of "how it was daily" for those living at that time. These bits of film are priceless. The few modern of our era who speak in this documentary clarify what is seen & what was normal in that era. Wonderful documentary. Thank you for sharing.😊
World War II also struck China in the Second Sino Japanese War part of the Asiatic Pacific theatre in 1937, Many Chinese civilians were brutally murdered by Japanese soldiers most infamously at Nanjing where a massacre took place
what I liked about this documentary is how happy those people were the smile they all have as they seemed just content with whatever they were doing 😊 ❤
I wish my undergraduate course, "The History of Western Civilization," had been zoomed out and called "The History of the World." I didn't realize how much I had missed until I was older. Thank you for this.
@coreycox2345 I hear you. Good for you for doing the homework! I remember reading one called the penguin history of the world, And one just called a history of china, By charles huck. Such interesting business
I liked the part where Edward Anderson identifies the Shaowansheng store in the old film, and the film makers visit it today. Fantastic. But have to agree drop the professors from the next project please.
Thoroughly enjoyed this documentary. I have seen most of these clips before but the commentary added by scholars is priceless. Enjoy chinese history but most intrigued by the Qing Dynesty. BTW barber is kinda hot 🙂
I have always been fascinated by China, but this interest has always been limited to dynastic China. I have never seen these film before, so I find them most interesting. Thank you for posting them. I really appreciate it and them.
Mis abuelos emigraron de China en 1911, comprender los acontecimientos que los hicieron venir a Costa Rica pueden comprenderse mejor con este documental.
I really enjoyed this video. I knew very little about these times in China, and they were far more complex than I realised. Seeing the Chinese people of the early 1900s relative to China today puts the history of their struggles into context I think. Today China is a world power; they have come so far.
This could’ve been produced much better. There is too much faff. I would prefer to see the chinese scholars discussing the images directly. The filler isn’t necessary.
16:02 The Chinese weren’t wrong. China had stagnated because of the unequal treaties forced upon them by the western powers along with the influx of opium and its addiction ravaging the country. As well as the encroachment of the missionaries and their very unethical ways of conversion in the “spheres of interest “ placed in several parts of China. There’s a film in Vietnam about the same time showing Victorian women throwing bits of food at a courtyard full of Vietnamese children, the children picking them up like they were pigeons and the Europeans smiling benevolently as if doing them the greatest kindness. You wonder why the Chinese hated foreigners…
@@dmraven Because you got triggered as well. From the comment you can say that it is very biased and I don't even need to explain myself to you on your pointless debate.
I need to film around my home town. It's already not a town anymore and a huge tract of farm land is destined to become a micro city. I didn't like it and will end up leaving
I walked up those steps in Chungking in Jan 1980. I feel bad that I rejected a lady from carrying my bags. I guess I was worried they might just disappear in the crowds. 1979 and 1980 were interesting times to live in China.
Very fascinating in the Qing dynasty and in other Chinese ancient dynasties! Large differences between the noble rich class versus the poor class and the " middle income class". In general, the nobel women ( whether pretty or normal or not pretty) had lighter skin than the farmers or peasant women who were outside a lot.
47:02 Thank you for this. So very important and interesting... So very relevant to the times we find ourselves in presently... Much to absorb... The last few minutes tell much! Pt 2, yes please. 47:22
Very beautiful footage. Thanks for posting. China has not entirely lost its old charm. Good politicians could restore the beauty and strong economy. Viva China☺
This film has shown me how far Chinese society has come. The film was talking about how this was shot from a “westernised” perspective that probably was made to film China in a certain perspective, which made me realise that if you go on any Chinese platform where someone has uploaded a video of their “Chinese perspective” all you see of America from a Chinese viewpoint is drugs in Philadelphia and homeless in California and shooting range vids. There is rarely any uploads of videos from a positive perspective about the US. Thousands of videos of homeless and drug addicts are uploaded from Chinese people today, going to America just to give other Chinese This type of perspective of “western society” which is very popular in China. They love watching the US burn. So I was struck by the term “westernised lens” when I just not long ago spent a good hour on chinese socials trying to find anything positive about the west from a Chinese perspective. Seems like revenge in a way even though I see lots of amazing Chinese history that was captured in many “colonial eras”
Anytime I see anything remotely associated with China, I always find comments about shady manufacturing, tofu houses, social credits, eating dogs, and gutter oil. I was watching a video about old American farm equipment from the early 1900's, and people were still bashing China in the comments. When I asked what the video had to do with China, they acted like I was stupid.
@@AB-wf8ek my point is Chinese social media is the same but no one in China ever talks bout how they skew their opinions on the US and the west for their beliefs, but as you just pointed out YOU yourself was very much talking about the way the west talks about China in what you deem a biased way. No one does that in China after they make biased videos for social media. They just stand alone as Chinas “truth” about the US. No one ever calls them out.
@@supremacy2040 China and the US are countries of hundreds of millions of people. Either way, any broad statements you make about either population is inherently biased, because there's no way you're getting the full picture. Especially if you're in the West looking at the East.
@@AB-wf8ek you’re not even understanding what I’m saying and just attacking when you’re doing exactly as I claimed this happens on Chinese socials. At least you can stick up for China here, where are the people on Chinese socials sticking up for us? That’s the point you keep missing.
The mere fact that Chinese women at that time had bound feet showed quite clearly that their respective relationships were anything but equal…. I found it fascinating that one of the women commentating said she thought the couple shown eating looked ‘equal’, and how nice that was to see. Wow ! She must live under a rock..
True but we have a form of voluntary foot binding here in the west - it's called heels. High heel shows ruin our health but women have to wear them to be considered beautiful, mariageable
@@os2958Well, I don’t know about you, but there’s no obligation for women to wear heels at least where I live. You can always take them off after work. They normally don’t break your bones like foot binding would certainly do unless you wear them for way too long than you should. A proper foot binding would take more than a year to slowly break down the bones in 5-6 year-old girls (they have to start with children or the feet wouldn’t be able to reach the desired size). It was mostly done by the girl’s mother and other women experienced with the process. The kids were forced to walk on broken feet and they would scream and cry, described by some as “the most disturbing noise in the world”. Not all people were pro foot binding back then. Manchu didn’t do that. The practice was specific to Han Chinese. Some Han scholars accused the practice as being unnecessarily cruel to innocent young kids. But the the trend was stronger than their voices, especially after Manchu’s taking over. The Han Chinese stuck even harder to their own tradition out of the spit (Manchu tried to abolish the practice alongside many other Han Chinese traditions, like the men’s hairstyles (they succeed with the men’s hair, but failed to free women’s feet unfortunately). Foot binding is child abuse and it is brutal. It’s purposely creating disability in people on a large scale for no good reason(you won’t be able to walk properly with bond feet. Some muscles would rot and drop off in the process. Some people would have their entire toe drop off, and whatever toes that didn’t would be dead anyway). Heels simply can’t compare.
It wasnt practices by normal people, only elite. It was creating a product that showed status. A man whose wife couldnt walk had to have servants. That woman was held a kind of captive in a gilded cage. Having a hobbled wife was a status symbol though. Im sire many parents hobbled their girls to try to marry them up. Marriage contracts were arranged at a young age. You could pre- order your hobbled wife. You can see the age difference. He probably was an older man with money. You wouldnt marry your daughter to a poor man. He couldnt afford to keep her. We have modern versioen of useless status wives here and now. Just not so extreme! America was the opposite for years. Probably because we came from pioneers whose capable women worked beside their men. In times of need, like war, American women ran everything- farm, household, businesses and worked at everything so men could go. The same for ship captains wives that engaged in the China trade. Now, nail polish keeps them helpless! Its todays foot binding only on hands. At least it can be removed- but will it? Helplessness in a woman has its rewards apparently! Even today.
16:00 "for somehow" The Chinese government was shit. That doesn't mean Western powers didn't significantly contribute to making life even more shit for the average Chinese person. The earlier mentioned opium for one, much of which came to China from India and the British East India Company. Hell the Chinese government even attempted to ban opium and the British went to war to force China to allow opium.
Fascinating stuff! This is earlier than the colourized 1917 footage i saw on here. Qing is not my favourite dynasty. It was a time of change, no matter how much they resisted it. Resist it they did. This is very good for historical information as well as making movies using old costumes. Oh wait. I really dislike Qing Dynasty outfits. That queue? Oh Lord. Who came up with that? I hope we dig up more unusual things like this. It's very educational. I know this lady who collects opium beds. Gross. That was part of history that happened. Gee, who gave the Chinese opium instead of paying in silver?(cough, cough). I have met a lady with bound feet when I was a kid. No she didn't walk much. AS a kid I did wonder WHY? But then what is with the torture today with high heels and other torture devices. UGH.
Compare video minute 16:25, to the foreign settlement at the end of this film, 44:50 and 45:11, and 46:00. There were foreign settlements inside China.
25:38 I worked for years on the Diné reservation in the United States. I see Asian DNA in their faces. The men and boys frequently have long, thick braids down their backs.
I watched a documentary called The Rape of Nankin, I watched t with tears running down my face. That wasn’t a movie, it was real and heartbreaking. There were some European people in a compound that managed to save some Chinese people by bringing them into the compound but thousands were slaughtered y Japanese troops. I don’t know how those brutes lived with themselves after doing what they did to the poor civilians, a few soldiers but mainly men women and children, it was beyond barbaric. God bless those poor souls who were just trying to live their lives.
If you think that's bad wait until you find out that only 10 years later the Chinese themselves killed 45 million of their own people as they roamed around the countryside literally eating each other. Then another 10 years later they started killing and selling into slavery ANOTHER 40+ million of their own CHILDREN!
Really appreciated the contribution of Chinese diaspora global and never to be humiliated again during the hundred years humiliated. This time the collective west will face its unwelcome KARMA. Welcome the 21st Century China a blessing and benefactor to the world 👍♥️🇨🇳
That is not the Bavarian alp Style hat 😅 which Uniform Jacket? What he is wearing looks more japanese style. Also the Marching practice was also done in other european countries....
16:25, the narrator claim this is a reenactment. It looks real to me. If it were real, why would the narrator/investigator think it was fabricated only for the camera?
This country to have the first government. An the first women roller that ran the country. She gave government jobs to women. Their preaching before the ccp was love understand, peace, trust. Came up first finger prints to identify a person. An the buildings amazing.
That was wonderful to see. I know everyone on the planet blames we British for just about everything, but at least we did take a lot of the film and preserve it. Our museums and archives serve a good purpose of keeping things safe and I also love looking at the earlier films of the UK in the 1800s too.l I have an 1890s photograph of my grandmother (now also scanned). It gives us such a connection to the past to see old images - it really brings it to life in a way a census or other record does not.
British brough opium when China didn't need, so don't try to whitewash what Britain did. Britain brought opium, destroyed Old Summer Palace, humiliated China with satanic churches no one wanted ( China is Confucian nation). You can't change your own crimes even preserving films.
@@susanmercurio1060 You want to "learn" something from some academics who laugh, smirk, tell anecdotes or say things like "that was my blade runner moment"? ahahaha, classic murican moment.
Only 20 years after this footage was taken the Chinese themselves killed 45 million of their own people as they roamed around the countryside literally eating each other. Then another 10 years later they started killing and selling into slavery ANOTHER 40+ million of their own CHILDREN!
Britain wanted to expand its imperial power and sell more goods, especially the opium whose import the Chinese tried to ban, while the British sold or smuggled in anyway. In other words, it was a case of commercial and imperialist British greed trying to force opium on the Chinese.
15:33 Impoverished, oppressed and increasingly hostile to all that is foreign (illegal immigrants) . Sounds like my beautiful country. 🇺🇸 It honestly sounds like many countries of the world.
Every time when I see the pictures of the Qing dynasty they present a shabby look of this poor country who was humiliated by the powers far and near. Fortunately this power restores her strength and superiority lately. The Heaven is fair!
Fascinating. And yet as late as 1900 China supported more people than the whole of Europe. The provincial scenes are the most interesting, away from the artificiality of imperial Beijing and western-occupied Shanghai. It's worth noting that what we're seeing here is a sample of the urban 7% of the population (a tenth by the 1930s): the remaining 90% or more would have been a good deal more traditional into the 1930s or even the 1950s, such has been the pace of change in the past century.
@@Chancellor-g9bactually the Chinese Civil War was between 1927 and 1949 (not 1950). To be even more specific, there was actually 2 different phases in which the Kuomintang and Communist stopped fighting because of the Second Sino-Japanese War/WW2. The first phase of the Chinese Civil War began on August 1st, 1927 and stopped on December 26th, 1936 making a temporary truce. This was due to the high tensions and multiple small confrontations with the Japanese after their invasion and capture of Manchuria in 1931. Rouphly 7 months later (on July 7th, 1937) the "Marco Polo Bridge Incident" happened and became the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War/WW2. Eventually after WW2 ended the Chinese ended their temporary truce and on August 10th, 1945 the second phase of the Chinese Civil War continued until December 7th, 1949 with the Communists victory and the Kuomintang retreating to Taiwan along with many others escaping to Hong Kong, Vietnam and other countries. Now even earlier to the start of Chinas Civil War, there was protesting going on and ofcourse in 1911 the Qing Dynasty fell. After that came the start of the Chinese revolution but multiple groups had their own beliefs and/or ideas. There were even some people you could refer to as "warlords" perhaps who thought that they could have a chance. In anycase it all boiled to the Kuomintang and Communist and eventually a drawn out civil war.
@@Chancellor-g9bactually their Civil War was between 1927 and 1949 (not 1950). To be even more specific, there was actually 2 diff phases in which the KMT and Communist stopped fighting because of the 2nd Sino-Jap War/WW2. The 1st phase of the Civil War began on Aug 1st, 1927 and stopped on Dec 26th, 1936 making a temporary truce. This was due to the high tensions and multiple small confrontations with the Japanese after their invasion and capture of Manchuria in 1931. Rouphly 7 months later (on July 7th, 1937) the "Marco Polo Bridge Incident" happened and became the start of the 2nd Sino-Jap War/WW2. After WW2 ended so did their temporary truce and on Aug 10th, 1945 the 2nd phase of the Civil War continued until Dec 7th, 1949 with the Communists victory.
i dont understand some of the jumps the people in the documentary make? like at about the 25min mark: the woman doesnt look noble so she is a brothel keeper? was the middle class not a thing for china during that time??? i just dont get a lot of the comments made or where theyre getting them from beside, seemingly, out of the air
brilliant documentary, the only downside here is the narrators voice, its just a mixed bag of accents and not nice at all to hear for a lengthy period.
Opium addiction in the West wqas very common. No one much cared it didn't have the stigma. After the Civil War of the United States it was called the soldier's disease. This attitude continued until the nineteen twenties
Foot binding permanently disfigured a woman's feet making it almost impossible to walk. In my opinion - there is no comparison to wearing corsets. Corsets could be removed. Your waist may have become smaller and your internal organs could even have been pushed out of place - but the woman was still functional - unlike after foot binding was completed.
Not sure why the archive man was so negative about the re-enacted murder of missionaries. He may think the violence is ludicrous but I don't suppose the real missionaries were too happy about being killed. This does smack rather of a dismissive view of Christian suffering.
A real treasure of "how it was daily" for those living at that time. These bits of film are priceless. The few modern of our era who speak in this documentary clarify what is seen & what was normal in that era.
Wonderful documentary. Thank you for sharing.😊
The best documentary about 19th and 20th Century Chinese History I have ever seen.
World War II also struck China in the Second Sino Japanese War part of the Asiatic Pacific theatre in 1937, Many Chinese civilians were brutally murdered by Japanese soldiers most infamously at Nanjing where a massacre took place
Thank you for posting this on the web. Very important for the young people to see this. It's how it was..where the grandparents came from. 💕😊🇨🇦
what I liked about this documentary
is how happy those people were
the smile they all have as they seemed
just content with whatever they were doing 😊 ❤
Absolutely fascinating. What an interesting film. Living history. Thank you.
I wish my undergraduate course, "The History of Western Civilization," had been zoomed out and called "The History of the World." I didn't realize how much I had missed until I was older. Thank you for this.
Good point!!
Take a world history course then?
@@Lovethemusic385 I have done some reading since I realized this, but there is so much more to do. I have many competing ideas, and this is a big one.
@coreycox2345 I hear you. Good for you for doing the homework! I remember reading one called the penguin history of the world, And one just called a history of china, By charles huck.
Such interesting business
I liked the part where Edward Anderson identifies the Shaowansheng store in the old film, and the film makers visit it today. Fantastic. But have to agree drop the professors from the next project please.
Thank you for sharing this.
Thankyou so much, this was fascinating. I can't wait to learn more.❤
The most fascinating thing I have ever seen !
Thoroughly enjoyed this documentary. I have seen most of these clips before but the commentary added by scholars is priceless. Enjoy chinese history but most intrigued by the Qing Dynesty. BTW barber is kinda hot 🙂
I have always been fascinated by China, but this interest has always been limited to dynastic China. I have never seen these film before, so I find them most interesting. Thank you for posting them. I really appreciate it and them.
I thought he was, too!
@@KerrieRedgate 😅
This is amazing. Thank you!
Fascinating, absolutely fascinating... History and Cultures will never stop amazing me. Thank you !!🧡✨
❤ Thank You Fantastic Video
Doesn't seem to be any more or less than most documentaries. I liked it.
Mis abuelos emigraron de China en 1911, comprender los acontecimientos que los hicieron venir a Costa Rica pueden comprenderse mejor con este documental.
Highly educational about China and film
How i love to watch these clips, thanks.
Very interesting thank you. I have read some books about this period of China’s history and the films really bring that to life.
I want to see more documentaries about this fantastic story. Where can I see more? Thanks
I really enjoyed this video. I knew very little about these times in China, and they were far more complex than I realised. Seeing the Chinese people of the early 1900s relative to China today puts the history of their struggles into context I think. Today China is a world power; they have come so far.
Just remember that previously it was an incredible culture. It has had several haydays
Sooo interesting! Love the old videos
Spectacular. Thanks
Auspicious! Hungry for more please. Thank you
This could’ve been produced much better. There is too much faff. I would prefer to see the chinese scholars discussing the images directly. The filler isn’t necessary.
What are some footage! Truly amazing, Francoise" mustache just slays me😂❤
16:02
The Chinese weren’t wrong.
China had stagnated because of the unequal treaties forced upon them by the western powers along with the influx of opium and its addiction ravaging the country. As well as the encroachment of the missionaries and their very unethical ways of conversion in the “spheres of interest “ placed in several parts of China.
There’s a film in Vietnam about the same time showing Victorian women throwing bits of food at a courtyard full of Vietnamese children, the children picking them up like they were pigeons and the Europeans smiling benevolently as if doing them the greatest kindness.
You wonder why the Chinese hated foreigners…
I understand you love the CCP but China stagnated in the modern era because of the communist party policies.
@@cogs11 I understand you’re a weeb with no social life and that doesn’t understand there’s records that prove this. But go off.
@@cogs11why would you say "I understand you love the CCP" I don't believe that person was ever trying to state that.
@@dmraven Because you got triggered as well. From the comment you can say that it is very biased and I don't even need to explain myself to you on your pointless debate.
@@cogs11 what exactly do you mean saying, "Because you got triggered as well."? I was literally just asking you a simple question. 🤦
The documentary is fine, but I want to see the individual videos in full, without the talking heads. How can I do that?
Is there a version of this film without commentaries please ?
Do need the commentaries to learn the history
I love watching videos of old Qing dynasty china. That culture no longer exists, sadly.
I need to film around my home town. It's already not a town anymore and a huge tract of farm land is destined to become a micro city. I didn't like it and will end up leaving
Yes !! Please do!! Post them on your channel! Start recording noticeable changes too!!
Welche Stadt soll denn das sein?
Drone footage is great for posterity
I feel for you.. It is very sad😢
I love History.
I walked up those steps in Chungking in Jan 1980. I feel bad that I rejected a lady from carrying my bags. I guess I was worried they might just disappear in the crowds. 1979 and 1980 were interesting times to live in China.
Very fascinating in the Qing dynasty and in other Chinese ancient dynasties! Large differences between the noble rich class versus the poor class and the " middle income class". In general, the nobel women ( whether pretty or normal or not pretty) had lighter skin than the farmers or peasant women who were outside a lot.
47:02
Thank you for this.
So very important and interesting...
So very relevant to the times we find ourselves in presently...
Much to absorb...
The last few minutes tell much!
Pt 2, yes please.
47:22
Very beautiful footage. Thanks for posting.
China has not entirely lost its old charm. Good politicians could restore the beauty and strong economy.
Viva China☺
Truly enrapturing scenes
This film has shown me how far Chinese society has come. The film was talking about how this was shot from a “westernised” perspective that probably was made to film China in a certain perspective, which made me realise that if you go on any Chinese platform where someone has uploaded a video of their “Chinese perspective” all you see of America from a Chinese viewpoint is drugs in Philadelphia and homeless in California and shooting range vids.
There is rarely any uploads of videos from a positive perspective about the US. Thousands of videos of homeless and drug addicts are uploaded from Chinese people today, going to America just to give other Chinese This type of perspective of “western society” which is very popular in China. They love watching the US burn.
So I was struck by the term “westernised lens” when I just not long ago spent a good hour on chinese socials trying to find anything positive about the west from a Chinese perspective. Seems like revenge in a way even though I see lots of amazing Chinese history that was captured in many “colonial eras”
Well said
Anytime I see anything remotely associated with China, I always find comments about shady manufacturing, tofu houses, social credits, eating dogs, and gutter oil.
I was watching a video about old American farm equipment from the early 1900's, and people were still bashing China in the comments. When I asked what the video had to do with China, they acted like I was stupid.
@@AB-wf8ek my point is Chinese social media is the same but no one in China ever talks bout how they skew their opinions on the US and the west for their beliefs, but as you just pointed out YOU yourself was very much talking about the way the west talks about China in what you deem a biased way. No one does that in China after they make biased videos for social media. They just stand alone as Chinas “truth” about the US. No one ever calls them out.
@@supremacy2040 China and the US are countries of hundreds of millions of people. Either way, any broad statements you make about either population is inherently biased, because there's no way you're getting the full picture. Especially if you're in the West looking at the East.
@@AB-wf8ek you’re not even understanding what I’m saying and just attacking when you’re doing exactly as I claimed this happens on Chinese socials. At least you can stick up for China here, where are the people on Chinese socials sticking up for us? That’s the point you keep missing.
High heels better than foot binding....
Still uncomfortable but at least can take them off.
SUPER interesting!!
"Luminaire" means light in French! Very similar to "Lumaire" mentioned here!
A small glimpse into the past.
Amazing
Wow! Thank you.
14:38, thats my people haha im glad that they were taken in this film
That's so awesome!
Miao/Hmong?
Just How much footage did we just watch of the light coming out from the projector room and of reels ?!?!!?
That's true. That part was disappointing. Perhaps it was because they had so much to say.
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The mere fact that Chinese women at that time had bound feet showed quite clearly that their respective relationships were anything but equal…. I found it fascinating that one of the women commentating said she thought the couple shown eating looked ‘equal’, and how nice that was to see. Wow ! She must live under a rock..
True but we have a form of voluntary foot binding here in the west - it's called heels. High heel shows ruin our health but women have to wear them to be considered beautiful, mariageable
@@os2958 Most absurd comparaison ever...
@@os2958 Ah, but we are not obligated to wear high heels and those women had no choice. Big difference.
@@os2958Well, I don’t know about you, but there’s no obligation for women to wear heels at least where I live. You can always take them off after work. They normally don’t break your bones like foot binding would certainly do unless you wear them for way too long than you should.
A proper foot binding would take more than a year to slowly break down the bones in 5-6 year-old girls (they have to start with children or the feet wouldn’t be able to reach the desired size). It was mostly done by the girl’s mother and other women experienced with the process. The kids were forced to walk on broken feet and they would scream and cry, described by some as “the most disturbing noise in the world”.
Not all people were pro foot binding back then. Manchu didn’t do that. The practice was specific to Han Chinese. Some Han scholars accused the practice as being unnecessarily cruel to innocent young kids. But the the trend was stronger than their voices, especially after Manchu’s taking over. The Han Chinese stuck even harder to their own tradition out of the spit (Manchu tried to abolish the practice alongside many other Han Chinese traditions, like the men’s hairstyles (they succeed with the men’s hair, but failed to free women’s feet unfortunately).
Foot binding is child abuse and it is brutal. It’s purposely creating disability in people on a large scale for no good reason(you won’t be able to walk properly with bond feet. Some muscles would rot and drop off in the process. Some people would have their entire toe drop off, and whatever toes that didn’t would be dead anyway).
Heels simply can’t compare.
It wasnt practices by normal people, only elite. It was creating a product that showed status. A man whose wife couldnt walk had to have servants. That woman was held a kind of captive in a gilded cage. Having a hobbled wife was a status symbol though. Im sire many parents hobbled their girls to try to marry them up. Marriage contracts were arranged at a young age. You could pre- order your hobbled wife. You can see the age difference. He probably was an older man with money. You wouldnt marry your daughter to a poor man. He couldnt afford to keep her.
We have modern versioen of useless status wives here and now. Just not so extreme! America was the opposite for years. Probably because we came from pioneers whose capable women worked beside their men.
In times of need, like war, American women ran everything- farm, household, businesses and worked at everything so men could go. The same for ship captains wives that engaged in the China trade.
Now, nail polish keeps them helpless!
Its todays foot binding only on hands.
At least it can be removed- but will it? Helplessness in a woman has its rewards apparently! Even today.
16:00 "for somehow"
The Chinese government was shit. That doesn't mean Western powers didn't significantly contribute to making life even more shit for the average Chinese person.
The earlier mentioned opium for one, much of which came to China from India and the British East India Company. Hell the Chinese government even attempted to ban opium and the British went to war to force China to allow opium.
I love this
Fascinating
Fascinating stuff! This is earlier than the colourized 1917 footage i saw on here. Qing is not my favourite dynasty. It was a time of change, no matter how much they resisted it. Resist it they did. This is very good for historical information as well as making movies using old costumes. Oh wait. I really dislike Qing Dynasty outfits. That queue? Oh Lord. Who came up with that? I hope we dig up more unusual things like this. It's very educational. I know this lady who collects opium beds. Gross. That was part of history that happened. Gee, who gave the Chinese opium instead of paying in silver?(cough, cough). I have met a lady with bound feet when I was a kid. No she didn't walk much. AS a kid I did wonder WHY? But then what is with the torture today with high heels and other torture devices. UGH.
Very interesting.
Where can i just see the footage?
Compare video minute 16:25, to the foreign settlement at the end of this film, 44:50 and 45:11, and 46:00. There were foreign settlements inside China.
Oh i was being amazed and all that was printed was this....
We are being controlled
Fascinating.
Imazing film discovery!
25:38 I worked for years on the Diné reservation in the United States. I see Asian DNA in their faces. The men and boys frequently have long, thick braids down their backs.
I watched a documentary called The Rape of Nankin, I watched t with tears running down my face. That wasn’t a movie, it was real and heartbreaking. There were some European people in a compound that managed to save some Chinese people by bringing them into the compound but thousands were slaughtered y Japanese troops. I don’t know how those brutes lived with themselves after doing what they did to the poor civilians, a few soldiers but mainly men women and children, it was beyond barbaric. God bless those poor souls who were just trying to live their lives.
If you think that's bad wait until you find out that only 10 years later the Chinese themselves killed 45 million of their own people as they roamed around the countryside literally eating each other. Then another 10 years later they started killing and selling into slavery ANOTHER 40+ million of their own CHILDREN!
Really appreciated the contribution of Chinese diaspora global and never to be humiliated again during the hundred years humiliated. This time the collective west will face its unwelcome KARMA. Welcome the 21st Century China a blessing and benefactor to the world 👍♥️🇨🇳
Interesting.
The German influence is prevalent with the goose-step marching practice... and the bavarian alps style hat & uniform jacket at 28:32.
They don’t mention anything which doesn’t have something to do with the US or Britain. Typical English speaking documentary…
That is not the Bavarian alp Style hat 😅 which Uniform Jacket? What he is wearing looks more japanese style. Also the Marching practice was also done in other european countries....
That doctor had close connections with USA, England and Japan. He was highly influenced by those countries.
This is comparable to seeing the first film of indigenous Americans. It was of the Sioux Buffalo and Ghost Dance. 1894
"exclusive access to the British Film Institute China collection" wait, are those clips in the public domain?
14:33 we are literally watching the time change as the French are showing the Chinese how to be French😮
I love watching period Chinese drama, it was a brutal and beautiful culture.
That's every culture. Nothing unusual.
16:25, the narrator claim this is a reenactment. It looks real to me. If it were real, why would the narrator/investigator think it was fabricated only for the camera?
This country to have the first government. An the first women roller that ran the country. She gave government jobs to women. Their preaching before the ccp was love understand, peace, trust. Came up first finger prints to identify a person. An the buildings amazing.
That was wonderful to see. I know everyone on the planet blames we British for just about everything, but at least we did take a lot of the film and preserve it. Our museums and archives serve a good purpose of keeping things safe and I also love looking at the earlier films of the UK in the 1800s too.l I have an 1890s photograph of my grandmother (now also scanned). It gives us such a connection to the past to see old images - it really brings it to life in a way a census or other record does not.
British brough opium when China didn't need, so don't try to whitewash what Britain did. Britain brought opium, destroyed Old Summer Palace, humiliated China with satanic churches no one wanted ( China is Confucian nation).
You can't change your own crimes even preserving films.
I would like to watch this Historic footage in Silence without all the talking and maybe some soft Traditional music.
Turn off the audio and play some traditional music on your radio.
The rest of us want to learn something.
@@susanmercurio1060 LoL, my thoughts exactly 💯🤣🤣🤣
47:22
Just turn off your volume
@@susanmercurio1060 You want to "learn" something from some academics who laugh, smirk, tell anecdotes or say things like "that was my blade runner moment"? ahahaha, classic murican moment.
I believe that the cameras had to be hand-cranked, so people would have noticed.
They noticed. If you watch the first film in Europe; the people were very much aware that they were in the cameras eye.
38:50 rickshaw - Richard Shaw! 😂
This is an incredible video. Hopefully, some of my videos will be looked at in 100 years, long after we are all gone.
Vehicles were traveling on the left side of the road in the video but modern China is on the right side.
"What China is all about; people."
Only 20 years after this footage was taken the Chinese themselves killed 45 million of their own people as they roamed around the countryside literally eating each other. Then another 10 years later they started killing and selling into slavery ANOTHER 40+ million of their own CHILDREN!
Chiang Kai shek relatives are still alive today ....
Britain wanted to expand its imperial power and sell more goods, especially the opium whose import the Chinese tried to ban, while the British sold or smuggled in anyway. In other words, it was a case of commercial and imperialist British greed trying to force opium on the Chinese.
15:33 Impoverished, oppressed and increasingly hostile to all that is foreign (illegal immigrants) . Sounds like my beautiful country. 🇺🇸 It honestly sounds like many countries of the world.
Every time when I see the pictures of the Qing dynasty they present a shabby look of this poor country who was humiliated by the powers far and near. Fortunately this power restores her strength and superiority lately. The Heaven is fair!
Fascinating. And yet as late as 1900 China supported more people than the whole of Europe. The provincial scenes are the most interesting, away from the artificiality of imperial Beijing and western-occupied Shanghai.
It's worth noting that what we're seeing here is a sample of the urban 7% of the population (a tenth by the 1930s): the remaining 90% or more would have been a good deal more traditional into the 1930s or even the 1950s, such has been the pace of change in the past century.
well, rana mitter didnt u were my teacher into modern philosophy or so? at this spiru haret hardcore philosophy?
The subjects look very animated, very relatable, unlike the Communist automatons of the last 75 years.
Why was everything in chaos
It was civil war between warlords and nationalist after collapse of Qing dynasty and from 1927-1950 civil war between nationalist and communist
@@Chancellor-g9bactually the Chinese Civil War was between 1927 and 1949 (not 1950). To be even more specific, there was actually 2 different phases in which the Kuomintang and Communist stopped fighting because of the Second Sino-Japanese War/WW2.
The first phase of the Chinese Civil War began on August 1st, 1927 and stopped on December 26th, 1936 making a temporary truce. This was due to the high tensions and multiple small confrontations with the Japanese after their invasion and capture of Manchuria in 1931. Rouphly 7 months later (on July 7th, 1937) the "Marco Polo Bridge Incident" happened and became the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War/WW2.
Eventually after WW2 ended the Chinese ended their temporary truce and on August 10th, 1945 the second phase of the Chinese Civil War continued until December 7th, 1949 with the Communists victory and the Kuomintang retreating to Taiwan along with many others escaping to Hong Kong, Vietnam and other countries.
Now even earlier to the start of Chinas Civil War, there was protesting going on and ofcourse in 1911 the Qing Dynasty fell. After that came the start of the Chinese revolution but multiple groups had their own beliefs and/or ideas. There were even some people you could refer to as "warlords" perhaps who thought that they could have a chance. In anycase it all boiled to the Kuomintang and Communist and eventually a drawn out civil war.
@@Chancellor-g9bactually their Civil War was between 1927 and 1949 (not 1950). To be even more specific, there was actually 2 diff phases in which the KMT and Communist stopped fighting because of the 2nd Sino-Jap War/WW2.
The 1st phase of the Civil War began on Aug 1st, 1927 and stopped on Dec 26th, 1936 making a temporary truce. This was due to the high tensions and multiple small confrontations with the Japanese after their invasion and capture of Manchuria in 1931. Rouphly 7 months later (on July 7th, 1937) the "Marco Polo Bridge Incident" happened and became the start of the 2nd Sino-Jap War/WW2.
After WW2 ended so did their temporary truce and on Aug 10th, 1945 the 2nd phase of the Civil War continued until Dec 7th, 1949 with the Communists victory.
@@Chancellor-g9b The Civil War was from 1927-1936, then the 2nd Sino-Japanese War/WW2 followed by the continuation of the Civil War from 1945-1949.
@@dmraven okay
i dont understand some of the jumps the people in the documentary make? like at about the 25min mark: the woman doesnt look noble so she is a brothel keeper? was the middle class not a thing for china during that time??? i just dont get a lot of the comments made or where theyre getting them from beside, seemingly, out of the air
I would guess they are basing it off of clothes and other indicators, but without explaining the details it does seem to be a bit preposterous.
All men. So few women. How did women live? Dress? Work? And where are all the children?
China was also occupied by Japan, a non-Western power.
brilliant documentary, the only downside here is the narrators voice, its just a mixed bag of accents and not nice at all to hear for a lengthy period.
The contemporary commentary on the Boxer Rebellion is utterly fake. Where dud you get this person?
Opium addiction in the West wqas very common. No one much cared it didn't have the stigma. After the Civil War of the United States it was called the soldier's disease. This attitude continued until the nineteen twenties
it's weird seeing chinese people speaking with a British accent.
15:38 rent being called taxes lol America wake up
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The images are wonderful. And some of the comments, from the people of Chinese origin, are informative. The rest is annoying.
The binding can be put opposite to having to wear a corset in the west. At the same time it was a requirement until bras were invented.
Foot binding permanently disfigured a woman's feet making it almost impossible to walk. In my opinion - there is no comparison to wearing corsets. Corsets could be removed. Your waist may have become smaller and your internal organs could even have been pushed out of place - but the woman was still functional - unlike after foot binding was completed.
Did you happen to leave out the part where the Han chinese came in and committed genocide against the Manchu?
wonderful moment
Ummm, the Great Wall, was built LONG before this time. Present before the reset, built by a previous civilization.
Not sure why the archive man was so negative about the re-enacted murder of missionaries. He may think the violence is ludicrous but I don't suppose the real missionaries were too happy about being killed. This does smack rather of a dismissive view of Christian suffering.
Not Qing of China, but Qing of Jurchen.
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