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The very first episode I seen of you guys was when you guys were in Mongolia and the police were telling people ahead of your journey that you guys were up to no good and that people should not talk to you guys when you get there. I thought to myself these guys are fucked, I’ve been hooked ever since thank you guys for all your channels😂
My heart breaks for the young man you befriended. All through high school I wanted to travel when I became an adult. We had vacations in western states and BC, living in Oregon. But, I longed for adventure. At 18 I married a man who also liked adventure. We stayed western for most our time together cuz he is a Vietnam vet and wanted to stay closer to home. But we wilderness camped, rock climbed, climbed waterfalls, and had motorcycles, dune buggy, snow mobile, boat, etc. Since we split in 1983, I’ve been to Mexico a few times and my ex went to Tanzania. Our only forays to other countries. Life was an adventure, even after having 3 kids. They just slowed us down some. But those kids and our grandchildren possess that same spirit of adventure. Our youngest grandchild is training for the rural volunteer fire dept with her bf. They are 18 and 17 respectively. I am so proud of them both. Their spirit of adventure drives them. Hope you can pass your great spirit of adventure to your descendants. Life is what you make it. Don and I are both “elderly” but not in our heads, lol. We are great friends and are able to join our family gatherings together with our spouses and tell stories of our younger selves. They love it. Being beset with a broken ankle, then just when that healed I broke the same leg. Don’t have a good story for it. Just fainting cuz my heart meds were off. But I discovered you and I am in love with your work while I’ve been laid up for most of a year. Would like to travel to Central and/or South America. My hubby is an archeologist and he’s into the history there. ❤❤
I found you guys about 5 or 6 years ago when I ran across some of Winston's "avoiding scams" videos before I travelled to Vietnam... got sucked into seeing China through your eyes, and all of the adventures across that amazing land. Was already a fan of "China Uncensored" back then, but it was so nice to just see the country and people from a human perspective as well, good and bad. Still a fan of The China Show even as situations have changed, but I still love this kind of content from you so much. Hopefully someday you'll be able to go back and make more.
A lot people don’t know about oppression in the North. Almost never mentioned elsewhere. Different topic, but another issue many people seem unaware of is the building of Chinese settlements in Bhutan.
I woke up every Saturday morning, in Shanghai, to the sound of yelling. The neighborhood center courtyard full of people by noon who had been rounded up and forced to kneel until they could fit no more, and the buses would come to take them all away. I could look out the opposite side of my apartment and sometimes see police chasing people around, since that side of the building was a recycling area where non-Shanghainese would live and work. It was a chilling experience and after a few month and the end of my residential contract, I had to move away. I couldn't stop what was happening, and I needed some sleep.
I've read about Mongolian people. Not only are they are an independent, intelligent, practical and overall friendly and curious people, they are VERY different from the Chinese. Mongolians speak an Altaic language which is much closer to Turkic and Kazakh languages, and like these central Asian nomads, they have a similar pastoral nomadic tradition. Mongolians are Easterners but they would be culturally much closer than the Tatar people from the Crimea, very far West of Mongolia, for example than the Chinese. Mongolia was an unstoppable war machine from horseback in the 13th to 15th century and created the world's largest continuous land empire in history. Despite their ruthless militarism at that time, Mongolians were surprisingly outward looking and accepting of other Eurasian cultures and religions (provided you accepted their suzrainty).
Thanks for helping me put things into perspective. There's a lot to be grateful for and my heart bleeds for that mongolian man. I hope one day he can exercise his spirit of adventure that is running through his blood.
we are all trapped here, but they are better than us at least they can have a horse to travel the word, we just have feet and are being salved by the corruption privilege class like domestic draughts, they use ugly No 1st concert house prices to make people work for their luxurious oversea lives.
These places are so rare and a way untouchable. I hope they' ll keep their traditions without any outside dominance. I wish you one day can make a story of Tibet, too. Good job, gentlemen! Kudos! 🤗👍
Excellent work my friends interviewing, traveling, and showcasing all of China and its people and cultures. You two have done remarkable work to share the stories n people of China over the past 10+ years. Keep doing what you do.
I've worked in Outer Mongolia (during the summer) but never realised the difference with Inner Mongolia (as in under Chinese control).I am now enlightened. I say during the summer as during the winter the lab would freeze and be unusable.
Met a guy like you are talking about in Xinjiang, he wanted to be a tourist guide and english interpreter, his dad saw the potential with the English, and wanted him to help open a hotel/hostel for foreigners. (kid didnt want that, because he wanted to get away) the biggest problem, he couldnt even go to the school he wanted because he couldnt get travel permission from the cops. Last I checked the hostel that the family had build (on old family land,) was "owned and operated" by a Han man.
uyghurs , tibetians ect cannot get a permit isued by the government to run a hotel to foreigners i have never seen an exaple of the chinese govenrment issuing these permits to these poeple.. even among chinese outside of chinese areas it is very hard you must be a member of the communist part and active in the chinese government.. you must be chinese AND connected to the communist party.. there is whole areas of china were no foreigner can stay as there is no hotels permitted to allow this .
@@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367 I honestly didnt know that ethnic minorities were barred from operating hotels/hostels for foreigners. It would make the family dynamics I witnessed make a lot more sense. The father seemed more to be induldging his sons dreams than hopeful. He also seemed to want to negotiate a partnership with me, (under the mistaken belief that because I was foreign I had the capital to work with him,) But as he did not speak mandarin or English, Everything he had to say to me was translated through his son. I got the distinct impression that the guy was a dreamer who wanted a better life, but his family was much more aware of the way things were/ if not the way things were headed. This was 2016? 2017? I know about the issues with finding places to stay in China, dealt with that multiple times. Found lots of very accomadating people too. Once had a guy figuratively dust off his liscense to house foreigners, he had the permit, but had never used it before. He spent a lot of extra time making sure he was dotting all his t's and crossing all his I's so he didnt get in trouble.) Yeah, guy I met was already living the life of a tragic dreamer, However, the evidence Ive found suggests that it got a lot more tragic after 2018. I hope Im wrong, but cant exactly make it back to that part of Xinjiang to find out. Im pretty sure that the house I shared dinner in with his family was incorporated into the new Han owned hostel. (Not something that family would have done if they still lived there.) It was a generational home so nothing positive would have made them leave.
@@indigophoenix12 yes having a permit to opperate a hotel in china needs a permit from the authorities, then there is a second very restricted licence for having hotels for foreign guests and another permit for running tours, i have never seen an example of a nonvhinese native person with a permit for a hotel, they might make a partnership with one like in tibet were there is to few chinese but even thrn generally the hotel is prohibited from renting rooms to foreign guests... Also it is not an "official" ban but an indirect one to stimulate chinese settlement in these new colonies and disposess the natives of business, it lhasa for example most hotel owners are ethnic chinese muslims moved there by the chinese government, decended from nationalist warlords troops who switched sides, the tibetians hate them and in 2008 the chineae mosque and hotels were the first target.
Inner Mongolia being outside Mongolia entails that the region called Mongolia is a misnomer; it's actually outer Mongolia, and all countries outside outer Mongolia are therefore inside what should actually be called Mongolia. "But wait Cody, that means the whole world is Mongolia!" ... ... ... _Always has been_
Do you remember when you premiered Conquering Northern China in L.A., when the scene with the cooking goat played, there were two people laughing hysterically in the audience, at the way he rolled it around with the rocks inside... that was my wife and me. For some reason it struck a funny bone in us, but we were the only ones laughing so we felt bad!
Ahh so happy to find you two once again. So much footage you two can share with us. I love you both so happy you came home. Your ancestors are with you
Hard to believe that the camel originated in North America and migrated to Asia before the land bridge connecting the continents faded away. Mongolia looks beautiful! Love you guys!
Thanks, guys! It’s so good to learn the reality of incredible places like Inner and Outer Mongolia. You two definitely have the spirit of adventure…on steroids!
I am Taiwanese. I have my Malaysian in laws living with us in the US. This is the stupidest tradition. I work from home, so I never escape them. I really don't want them to take care of my son as I prefer to take care of him. I don't always like the shit they cook. We constantly clash about weather and everything. You're totally right about teaching them the endless amounts of dumb things. This philosophy never took about to whether people actually get along. I'd gladly send them back where they're happier, send them some money every month
chinese are used to condensed living without any form of social welfare or broad social dependency so peoples network is based on close living conditions and interdependency on their children as a system of welfare. .. same issue with indians.. little personal space cramped social habits.. gets hard..
@@henrysehgal658 i can imagine, i have a friend in a similar situation, his parents live with him, they are totalky insane, grew up in the cultural revolution, his girlfriend told him she cannot stay in his house, if he gets married its gonna be very hard for him. Everything is an issue, he had banana trees in his yard they xut the because of "ghosts" his young son from aprevious marriage visits and they teach him insane things like to piss outside in the yard or weird behavior like opening and eating fruit on display in the supermarket.. Ect. They got some bazzar dangerous pesticide sent from china that they spray on the yard because he had some butterflys which were "bad".. They fill all the house with mothballs so all his clothing stinks. its a very frustraiting situation for him but his siblings have all avoided looking after them so hes stuck.
@@audreyandlinCompany hey are are probably chinese from malaysia... chinese in taiwan.. same same.. main issue is old chinese are mosty insane. and having them live in your house is a nightmare
sucks you guys can't be in China anymore.... miss that content so much. discovered you both maybe 6 years ago. Love the commentary but the on the grounds stuff was what hooked me. cheers, and happy holidays.
Mongolians (the country) hate it when we say outer Mongolia. It's just Mongolia. And there is no fake culture there. It's way more genuine then Inner Mongolia since there is no Chinese influence, even the touristy stuff.
@@k.umquat8604 True, but what I'm saying is that Mongolians from Mongolia don't like the term outer Mongolia. It's like saying, Canada is Outer New York. Mongolia is a sovereign country.
Butcher here, you are exactly correct about meat! Tougher meat has more flavor because they're working muscles, which get more blood flow. Same concept as dark meat on a bird. Tougher cuts ideally need either slow cooking, or proper cutting. If you slice it super thin, and ACROSS the grain, the same way as a steak (VERY important). I could slice thin, I tell you. I can turn one chicken breast into like 8 paper thin filets, so thin they were actually translucent. You couldn't hammer it after or it would fall apart lol.
China is slowly becoming a very large prison with a few masters and varrying degrees of incarceration for the prisoners depending upon your background etc.
@@JustAKidder Yes but America's numbers are at least transparent. Many are legitmately imprisioned. How many secret gulags does China have? Are you also aware that about a million uyghurs are being held in concentration/ rape/ torture camps? But do carry on..
That description of the steppes reminds me a lot of what it's like to experience the Nullarbor Plain in Australia, it just goes forever. Even the nomad thing is a lot like the our drovers, though with modern technology those semi-nomadic herdsmen are not as much of a thing anymore
I just wanna say, you guys are amazing speakers. I thought the hole time, "wait, I already heard everything you just said" and then I remembered the last stream I watched :D great content like always. I'm watching all of your channels, no content creator made me do that, besides you two.
I think it's one of the most amazing places on Earth. Visualizing a 360° grass and sky in one vision with minimum of anything at all other than grass and sky .. that is awesome.
1st tier cities like shanghai has a points-based system just like talent immigration in Canada, or you have to work at shanghai for 5~7 yrs to become a hukou holder, in a lot ways it's just like immigration.
I know this comes up often, but I do think about the bikes. I hope they are safe and loved somewhere. Be cool to see them back in action one day if the world gets a little less cray. Never got to Mongolia. Hope I can one day.
You guys kick a@$! Very informative on a authentic level alone. Thanks for sharing the details of your experiences, they shape the whole point of relating the subject, thanks again, love watching your shows!!!
Spent 6 years in China from 2016 until November 2022. Had great time there first 4 years. I totally understand these guys. You feel a bond with people and you feel sorry for them in a way. One example. This year in May when outbreak started in Shanghai and the city was completely locked down we in Beijing were having a rise in Covid cases so the government took precautions. All of the bars and restaurants were closed. We worked from home. City empty. 1st of May came. 5 day holiday. May is gorgeous in Beijing. Warm but not yet hot, sunny. Beautiful. On Saturday afternoon I texted a friend and said lets grab a few beers and just walk outside, no point being home. Lets go to Liangmaqiao, which is a beautiful 2km stroll on the banks of a tiny river running through Beijing. They just renovated it and it's really beautiful. We came there and there was thousands of people there. Enjoying great weather, families with kids, couples, elderly people. I had a feeling whole Beijing was there. People brought food, music, drinks, tents for the kids, picnic chairs, played badminton, girls doing yoga, guys working out or just chilling on the grass with book in their hands. It was melting my heart to see them so happy. They don't want to stay home, they don't want to obey stupid rules, they wanna enjoy life, have fun. I was so happy for them. It was fabulous Saturday afternoon, one of my fondest memories of Beijing. This went viral on Chinese social media and you guessed it, next weekend police barricaded whole area, left only pedestrian pathways. No gatherings of any kind permitted. I was so pissed. Chinese people are just like you and me. They want same things but unfortunately they are manipulated by their government. And hukou rule is the worst in Beijing. Anyway, I understand these guys and feel sorry for that Mongolian boy but stories like that are as many as you like in China. I went on a date with Uyghur girl who was working in Beijing for Portuguese company and moved to Portugal but after one year had to come back because they were threatening her family and pressuring them to tell her to come back. Her passport is taken away. So all of you who take your freedoms for granted, be grateful that you live where you live because you don't know how blessed you are in a way.
I have a Mongolian friend on Vr and he is always traveling and telling me about his life in and out of Mangolia he plays really excellent English Music
Brilliantly amazing anthropologists as well both of you guys yes indeed ived been working with HK & Taiwanese nationals but never been to Ulaanbatoor with those bactrian camels world conservationists said its one of the rarest camels & its near extinction with those nomadic mongolians in thier bohemian lifestyle just amazing experience many thanks indeed for sharing your awesome travels & cultural insights all the best!
I was a visiting Professor at Inner Mongolia University and visited and taught in Hohhot regularly. Still have many friends from there. One of my ex students runs grasslands, stay in a Yurt holidays, with goat meat and alcohol drinks.
In Russia also still exist very strict registration procedure from Soviet Union days. It's restrict people from moving from one city to another place or region. It's nonsense for 21st century.
We had a young Mongolian visit us among the plains Indians of Montana sponsored by our church. He, at least, did get to travel. I can not convey how much of a strong kinship we felt, like a close relative:, much in common.
Interesting , I've been in Inner Mongolia for a while to do some work there , but I don't remember the name of the place . Went by plane to Tongliau airport , and from there another 2 hours by car to a place where we lived nearby a meat plant , but it was built in a former Mongolian army camp , which was occupied in 1974 or so . The cows we bought came from the Kerchin fields we were told . It was an interesting experience ! At 2100 hours all electricity was turned off in the main town , and it was possible to see a tremendous amount of starts and fast moving satellites , everything just above your head . The place where we stayed had a lot of train activity , a lot of charcoal from Russia went thru that place , 2 big locomotives pulling sometimes up to 62 transport trains . Think the name was chitta or conchiqa , something like that . We were also guarded by the guards of the place where we lived , and also by the local police . But we were doing business with important people from Peking , so we were not really bothered . We also had a Chinese translator who was afraid to translate the things we said to his superiors . For instance , we had in our kitchen old Kitchen Cabinets , and thru those cabinets there were also pipes from the heating system . The came in from a wall , but they never closes the hole in the wall the pipes came thru , and we had a rat problem . So our project leader wanted to have the problem solved immediately , but nothing happened . So he found a big hammer , and took down the rotten kitchen cabinets and threw it out of the door . The translator was in a shock , how to tell his boss , he was in big troubles he told me , because he had to explain it to his superior . Anyway , 2 days later we had a new kitchen , and the rats were gone . From that place we also had an open telephone line to outside china , and we had open internet . After a few month we went home , and we got escorted by a big black blinded car to Tongliau airport . We were very late , and not on time for the scheduled flight , but the guy from the factory told us that without their permission , the plane won't take off ! When we arrived , a lot of travelers were waiting , and we could enter the plane without even showing our passports , or weighting our luggage . The permitted hand luggage was only 8Kg for chinese people , but we didn't have any problems : the officials in the black car shouted orders , and they were carried out ! Can write many other things which happened during our stay , like the visit of a co-worker to a very professional acupuncturist , but then I could start a you-tube channel myself . . . . . . Anyway I always enjoy your episodes , especially the one about inner Mongolia . . . . .Tnx , and stay safe !
the meat is probably also tough not just how its cooked but the life the animal lived they are nomadic so the animal is always moving around and eating wildlife so its probably more like eating a deer in that sense how it tough and earthy tasting where in these big factory farms the animals are stuck standing still side by side all day everyday being fed all sorts of fatty foods with all sorts of hormones' ect into its diet and gets fat and not moving so its alot more tender and fatty its also alot less healthy
I know this might be a stretch. But would there be a way to get the boy a VR kit and send him videos (no voice or anything) of pretty places in of our region? I found (at least for myself) during confinement that exploring the world through a VR kit to be somewhat conforting even if it's a bit of a limited experience.
Even though it does not beat the real experience, I do think that is a really neat idea! Wonder if you could directly message them both of their TH-cam accounts(for better chance of seeing) so hopefully they can do it.😊 Wonder how mail would work for nomadic people?🤔🙃
Obviously, the VR can't even compare to the real thing. But while being stuck at home, standard videos are nice but VR felt a bit more "real". At the same time, I think it could be nice if many would all contribute showing a corner of their own world. At the same time show some love from across the world. "If you can go out into the world, we'll try to bring a part of the world to you" But yeah, it would probably be quite a challenge to get that provided to them.
Tagged yall in a vape factory "hidden Camera" video, I'd really love to hear your reactions. it's a short with several millions of views. idk youtubes policy about links though
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Do foreigners have hukkou? Or you can move freely around China.
The very first episode I seen of you guys was when you guys were in Mongolia and the police were telling people ahead of your journey that you guys were up to no good and that people should not talk to you guys when you get there. I thought to myself these guys are fucked, I’ve been hooked ever since thank you guys for all your channels😂
A Mongolian is watchin your video from Europe. Laowhy you used to teach in my university
I'm glad to hear you're in Europe and not inner Mongolia, hope you're having a good time!
That's awesome!
@@laowhy86 i was in the university 2010~2015 in Bugat Hot ( known as BaoTou)
@@gryaznygreeb thanks.
I have 0.2% Mongolian dna and the rest is European according to 23&me. What do y’all think happened? I’m guessing rape🤫
My heart breaks for the young man you befriended. All through high school I wanted to travel when I became an adult. We had vacations in western states and BC, living in Oregon. But, I longed for adventure. At 18 I married a man who also liked adventure. We stayed western for most our time together cuz he is a Vietnam vet and wanted to stay closer to home. But we wilderness camped, rock climbed, climbed waterfalls, and had motorcycles, dune buggy, snow mobile, boat, etc. Since we split in 1983, I’ve been to Mexico a few times and my ex went to Tanzania. Our only forays to other countries. Life was an adventure, even after having 3 kids. They just slowed us down some. But those kids and our grandchildren possess that same spirit of adventure. Our youngest grandchild is training for the rural volunteer fire dept with her bf. They are 18 and 17 respectively. I am so proud of them both. Their spirit of adventure drives them. Hope you can pass your great spirit of adventure to your descendants. Life is what you make it. Don and I are both “elderly” but not in our heads, lol. We are great friends and are able to join our family gatherings together with our spouses and tell stories of our younger selves. They love it. Being beset with a broken ankle, then just when that healed I broke the same leg. Don’t have a good story for it. Just fainting cuz my heart meds were off. But I discovered you and I am in love with your work while I’ve been laid up for most of a year. Would like to travel to Central and/or South America. My hubby is an archeologist and he’s into the history there. ❤❤
I found you guys about 5 or 6 years ago when I ran across some of Winston's "avoiding scams" videos before I travelled to Vietnam... got sucked into seeing China through your eyes, and all of the adventures across that amazing land. Was already a fan of "China Uncensored" back then, but it was so nice to just see the country and people from a human perspective as well, good and bad.
Still a fan of The China Show even as situations have changed, but I still love this kind of content from you so much.
Hopefully someday you'll be able to go back and make more.
Going back not an option until CCP is deposed I take it, that's not likely anytime soon.
Nice try CCP.
@@Mrbfgray Yeah, obviously they can't go back until then. But a free China will be a beautiful day.
@Master General …and sociopaths like you who list names of other sociopaths that no sane person would listen to.
@Master General if your truthteller is Alex Jones, you have a huge credibility problem
That is terribly sad. I'm sure we can all agree that traveling around as a young man or person are some of the most valuable experiences of my life.
your life or life in general
@@yolocrayolo1134 In general. I mean there are so many things you learn about yourself and life traveling.
@@yolocrayolo1134 your he’s saying.. duh.. foot in your ass .. talking like that
A lot people don’t know about oppression in the North. Almost never mentioned elsewhere.
Different topic, but another issue many people seem unaware of is the building of Chinese settlements in Bhutan.
One of my favorite rock bands is The Hu from Mongolia. They bring Mongolian throat singing into the modern world.
“Socks, so good to wear...”
I woke up every Saturday morning, in Shanghai, to the sound of yelling. The neighborhood center courtyard full of people by noon who had been rounded up and forced to kneel until they could fit no more, and the buses would come to take them all away. I could look out the opposite side of my apartment and sometimes see police chasing people around, since that side of the building was a recycling area where non-Shanghainese would live and work. It was a chilling experience and after a few month and the end of my residential contract, I had to move away. I couldn't stop what was happening, and I needed some sleep.
I've read about Mongolian people. Not only are they are an independent, intelligent, practical and overall friendly and curious people, they are VERY different from the Chinese. Mongolians speak an Altaic language which is much closer to Turkic and Kazakh languages, and like these central Asian nomads, they have a similar pastoral nomadic tradition. Mongolians are Easterners but they would be culturally much closer than the Tatar people from the Crimea, very far West of Mongolia, for example than the Chinese. Mongolia was an unstoppable war machine from horseback in the 13th to 15th century and created the world's largest continuous land empire in history. Despite their ruthless militarism at that time, Mongolians were surprisingly outward looking and accepting of other Eurasian cultures and religions (provided you accepted their suzrainty).
All people are like that
This means "Ancient China" is fake af. "Ancient China" is just stolen Mongolian and other histories squished together into a new fake one.😂😢
Thanks for helping me put things into perspective. There's a lot to be grateful for and my heart bleeds for that mongolian man. I hope one day he can exercise his spirit of adventure that is running through his blood.
we are all trapped here, but they are better than us at least they can have a horse to travel the word, we just have feet and are being salved by the corruption privilege class like domestic draughts, they use ugly No 1st concert house prices to make people work for their luxurious oversea lives.
Not wrong. My hassles and disappointments are nothing in comparison.
@Master General You mean more like scammers milking you people for financial gain.
@@dagmarbubolz7999 Yes, the same as our mainstream media.
I enjoy watching every single one of your videos, keep up your good work guys.
Greetings from Mongolia.
These places are so rare and a way untouchable. I hope they' ll keep their traditions without any outside dominance.
I wish you one day can make a story of Tibet, too.
Good job, gentlemen! Kudos! 🤗👍
Excellent work my friends interviewing, traveling, and showcasing all of China and its people and cultures. You two have done remarkable work to share the stories n people of China over the past 10+ years. Keep doing what you do.
I've worked in Outer Mongolia (during the summer) but never realised the difference with Inner Mongolia (as in under Chinese control).I am now enlightened. I say during the summer as during the winter the lab would freeze and be unusable.
Met a guy like you are talking about in Xinjiang, he wanted to be a tourist guide and english interpreter, his dad saw the potential with the English, and wanted him to help open a hotel/hostel for foreigners. (kid didnt want that, because he wanted to get away) the biggest problem, he couldnt even go to the school he wanted because he couldnt get travel permission from the cops. Last I checked the hostel that the family had build (on old family land,) was "owned and operated" by a Han man.
That's heartbreaking to hear. The CCP are the devil.
That’s heartbreaking. I hope one day he gets to experience freedom.
uyghurs , tibetians ect cannot get a permit isued by the government to run a hotel to foreigners i have never seen an exaple of the chinese govenrment issuing these permits to these poeple.. even among chinese outside of chinese areas it is very hard you must be a member of the communist part and active in the chinese government.. you must be chinese AND connected to the communist party.. there is whole areas of china were no foreigner can stay as there is no hotels permitted to allow this .
@@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367 I honestly didnt know that ethnic minorities were barred from operating hotels/hostels for foreigners. It would make the family dynamics I witnessed make a lot more sense. The father seemed more to be induldging his sons dreams than hopeful. He also seemed to want to negotiate a partnership with me, (under the mistaken belief that because I was foreign I had the capital to work with him,) But as he did not speak mandarin or English, Everything he had to say to me was translated through his son. I got the distinct impression that the guy was a dreamer who wanted a better life, but his family was much more aware of the way things were/ if not the way things were headed. This was 2016? 2017?
I know about the issues with finding places to stay in China, dealt with that multiple times. Found lots of very accomadating people too. Once had a guy figuratively dust off his liscense to house foreigners, he had the permit, but had never used it before. He spent a lot of extra time making sure he was dotting all his t's and crossing all his I's so he didnt get in trouble.)
Yeah, guy I met was already living the life of a tragic dreamer, However, the evidence Ive found suggests that it got a lot more tragic after 2018. I hope Im wrong, but cant exactly make it back to that part of Xinjiang to find out. Im pretty sure that the house I shared dinner in with his family was incorporated into the new Han owned hostel. (Not something that family would have done if they still lived there.) It was a generational home so nothing positive would have made them leave.
@@indigophoenix12 yes having a permit to opperate a hotel in china needs a permit from the authorities, then there is a second very restricted licence for having hotels for foreign guests and another permit for running tours, i have never seen an example of a nonvhinese native person with a permit for a hotel, they might make a partnership with one like in tibet were there is to few chinese but even thrn generally the hotel is prohibited from renting rooms to foreign guests... Also it is not an "official" ban but an indirect one to stimulate chinese settlement in these new colonies and disposess the natives of business, it lhasa for example most hotel owners are ethnic chinese muslims moved there by the chinese government, decended from nationalist warlords troops who switched sides, the tibetians hate them and in 2008 the chineae mosque and hotels were the first target.
This is my favorite type of content from you guys. I love hearing about stories from places I've never been.
This was pure, beautiful perspective. TY
Inner Mongolia being outside Mongolia entails that the region called Mongolia is a misnomer; it's actually outer Mongolia, and all countries outside outer Mongolia are therefore inside what should actually be called Mongolia.
"But wait Cody, that means the whole world is Mongolia!"
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_Always has been_
*throat singing in background intensifies*
HUUUUEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAHHHH EEAAAYEEEEEYEAAAAHHHHH
Brilliant vid! I’m fascinated by the endless steppe land of Mongolia. Would love to see a docu series of you guys travelling up there again!
Major eye opener for us. Thanks for knowing what is.
Do you remember when you premiered Conquering Northern China in L.A., when the scene with the cooking goat played, there were two people laughing hysterically in the audience, at the way he rolled it around with the rocks inside... that was my wife and me. For some reason it struck a funny bone in us, but we were the only ones laughing so we felt bad!
It’s pretty funny so don’t feel bad lol
HAHA I almost forgot! I started laughing right after you !
How many boards could the Mongols hoard if the Mongol hordes got bored?
Two.
Mongolia has a distinct lack of trees.
@@emmettturner9452 sounds like a strong motivation to hoard boards then...
You dealt with a few heterographs without error, and with humour.
I believe this is my first heterographs joke.
Ahh so happy to find you two once again.
So much footage you two can share with us.
I love you both so happy you came home.
Your ancestors are with you
Thanks for teaching me again Milk and Serpentza
Thanks guys! You're awesome!
First time viewer and new subscriber. So interesting and thank you for sharing. I look forward to viewing your videos.
"Can you imagine after you get married, your in-laws move in with you?" -
My wife hated it. ;)
Hard to believe that the camel originated in North America and migrated to Asia before the land bridge connecting the continents faded away. Mongolia looks beautiful! Love you guys!
Ah.. two humped camels. 😁 Different from the one-humped type you find in the Middle East (or Australia). 13:53 - Winston giving a lecture to them.. 😁
I think you mean jumbo lumpy llamas
@@Jumpin.Jagaloon They're jumbo lumpy alpacas, obviously...
So did horses...then they became extirpated on their native continent.
Thanks, guys! It’s so good to learn the reality of incredible places like Inner and Outer Mongolia. You two definitely have the spirit of adventure…on steroids!
I am Taiwanese. I have my Malaysian in laws living with us in the US. This is the stupidest tradition. I work from home, so I never escape them. I really don't want them to take care of my son as I prefer to take care of him. I don't always like the shit they cook. We constantly clash about weather and everything. You're totally right about teaching them the endless amounts of dumb things. This philosophy never took about to whether people actually get along. I'd gladly send them back where they're happier, send them some money every month
chinese are used to condensed living without any form of social welfare or broad social dependency so peoples network is based on close living conditions and interdependency on their children as a system of welfare. .. same issue with indians.. little personal space cramped social habits.. gets hard..
Yes, it is too hard to live with Malaysian in-laws as they may be living in the past, while we wish to change with the times.
@@henrysehgal658 i can imagine, i have a friend in a similar situation, his parents live with him, they are totalky insane, grew up in the cultural revolution, his girlfriend told him she cannot stay in his house, if he gets married its gonna be very hard for him. Everything is an issue, he had banana trees in his yard they xut the because of "ghosts" his young son from aprevious marriage visits and they teach him insane things like to piss outside in the yard or weird behavior like opening and eating fruit on display in the supermarket.. Ect. They got some bazzar dangerous pesticide sent from china that they spray on the yard because he had some butterflys which were "bad".. They fill all the house with mothballs so all his clothing stinks. its a very frustraiting situation for him but his siblings have all avoided looking after them so hes stuck.
If you are Taiwanese, what are you doing with Malaysian in-laws in the US? Sounds pretty typical for a mixed-ethnic family to me.
@@audreyandlinCompany hey are are probably chinese from malaysia... chinese in taiwan.. same same.. main issue is old chinese are mosty insane. and having them live in your house is a nightmare
Thank you for opening the lens for all of us on China and in this presentation the heartbreaking situation in Mongolia.
The footage is so amazing 👏
sucks you guys can't be in China anymore.... miss that content so much. discovered you both maybe 6 years ago. Love the commentary but the on the grounds stuff was what hooked me. cheers, and happy holidays.
All can say is 🇨🇦❤️just love you guys
Mongolians (the country) hate it when we say outer Mongolia. It's just Mongolia. And there is no fake culture there. It's way more genuine then Inner Mongolia since there is no Chinese influence, even the touristy stuff.
They're both part of Mongolia. Outer Mongolia is the free part and Inner Mongolia is the part ruled by the Chinese.
@@k.umquat8604 True, but what I'm saying is that Mongolians from Mongolia don't like the term outer Mongolia. It's like saying, Canada is Outer New York. Mongolia is a sovereign country.
Butcher here, you are exactly correct about meat! Tougher meat has more flavor because they're working muscles, which get more blood flow. Same concept as dark meat on a bird.
Tougher cuts ideally need either slow cooking, or proper cutting. If you slice it super thin, and ACROSS the grain, the same way as a steak (VERY important).
I could slice thin, I tell you. I can turn one chicken breast into like 8 paper thin filets, so thin they were actually translucent. You couldn't hammer it after or it would fall apart lol.
Disgusting!
I just gotta say, I will never tire of your weird sponsor vids 🤣🤣🤣
China is slowly becoming a very large prison with a few masters and varrying degrees of incarceration for the prisoners depending upon your background etc.
It always was a prison, these days it just becomes more obvious
@@JustAKidder Yes but America's numbers are at least transparent. Many are legitmately imprisioned. How many secret gulags does China have? Are you also aware that about a million uyghurs are being held in concentration/ rape/ torture camps? But do carry on..
ADV China hits another home run! Fantastic episode !!!!!!
Love your Guy's commentary; you play off each other's words and experiences well! Looking forward to the next video :)
Freedom for Inner Mongolia!
Thanks that means a lot
What an amazing channel. Why didn't I find you sooner. Cheers
THANK YOU FOR OPENING OUR EYES!!!!!!!!!
14:52 That's a formidable cloud factory they have there. Probably the best clouds in all China!
Yea, the most notable observation is the clean air, no pollution like the rest of chy nah.
That description of the steppes reminds me a lot of what it's like to experience the Nullarbor Plain in Australia, it just goes forever. Even the nomad thing is a lot like the our drovers, though with modern technology those semi-nomadic herdsmen are not as much of a thing anymore
Great documentary guys
Thank you
good video, love from the netherlands
I just wanna say, you guys are amazing speakers. I thought the hole time, "wait, I already heard everything you just said" and then I remembered the last stream I watched :D great content like always. I'm watching all of your channels, no content creator made me do that, besides you two.
Fabulous and so interesting. Thank you
I think it's one of the most amazing places on Earth. Visualizing a 360° grass and sky in one vision with minimum of anything at all other than grass and sky .. that is awesome.
Loved this episode
1st tier cities like shanghai has a points-based system just like talent immigration in Canada, or you have to work at shanghai for 5~7 yrs to become a hukou holder, in a lot ways it's just like immigration.
Hello, from Inner California.
and inner Australia
Yeah central valley california feels surreal
IE life east Fontana AB inner California stuff
When will you dudes go traveling again?? Would enjoy watching some new travel episodes.
@RCMKPS not exactly much of a snowstorm in India.
@rcmkps4528 India is next
You guys are the best and this is one your best presentations. A subscriber.
I know this comes up often, but I do think about the bikes. I hope they are safe and loved somewhere. Be cool to see them back in action one day if the world gets a little less cray. Never got to Mongolia. Hope I can one day.
As serious as these dudes can be I appreciate the outfit change for each channel hahah I just noticed it
Inner Mongolia was like the Sparta of the Roman Empire. Their way of life was reduced to a tourist attraction.
I find it amazing that someone else actually knows about that.
Most people see Sparta as just kinda ceasing to exist after Alexander of Macedon.
You guys kick a@$! Very informative on a authentic level alone. Thanks for sharing the details of your experiences, they shape the whole point of relating the subject, thanks again, love watching your shows!!!
Spent 6 years in China from 2016 until November 2022. Had great time there first 4 years. I totally understand these guys. You feel a bond with people and you feel sorry for them in a way.
One example. This year in May when outbreak started in Shanghai and the city was completely locked down we in Beijing were having a rise in Covid cases so the government took precautions.
All of the bars and restaurants were closed. We worked from home. City empty.
1st of May came. 5 day holiday. May is gorgeous in Beijing. Warm but not yet hot, sunny. Beautiful. On Saturday afternoon I texted a friend and said lets grab a few beers and just walk outside, no point being home. Lets go to Liangmaqiao, which is a beautiful 2km stroll on the banks of a tiny river running through Beijing. They just renovated it and it's really beautiful.
We came there and there was thousands of people there. Enjoying great weather, families with kids, couples, elderly people. I had a feeling whole Beijing was there. People brought food, music, drinks, tents for the kids, picnic chairs, played badminton, girls doing yoga, guys working out or just chilling on the grass with book in their hands.
It was melting my heart to see them so happy. They don't want to stay home, they don't want to obey stupid rules, they wanna enjoy life, have fun. I was so happy for them. It was fabulous Saturday afternoon, one of my fondest memories of Beijing.
This went viral on Chinese social media and you guessed it, next weekend police barricaded whole area, left only pedestrian pathways. No gatherings of any kind permitted. I was so pissed.
Chinese people are just like you and me. They want same things but unfortunately they are manipulated by their government.
And hukou rule is the worst in Beijing.
Anyway, I understand these guys and feel sorry for that Mongolian boy but stories like that are as many as you like in China.
I went on a date with Uyghur girl who was working in Beijing for Portuguese company and moved to Portugal but after one year had to come back because they were threatening her family and pressuring them to tell her to come back. Her passport is taken away.
So all of you who take your freedoms for granted, be grateful that you live where you live because you don't know how blessed you are in a way.
Change is inevitable! It has to come from within!
Thanks guys
A moving background is cool !
....basically born a prisioner....love you guys, stay awesome
2:00 I picture Yurts on the steppes... And lived it
I love this channel.
Great message to not take freedoms for granted
I always wondered about how traveling worked for controlled areas like Inner Mongolia...they simply don't :(
I have a Mongolian friend on Vr and he is always traveling and telling me about his life in and out of Mangolia he plays really excellent English Music
Brilliantly amazing anthropologists as well both of you guys yes indeed ived been working with HK & Taiwanese nationals but never been to Ulaanbatoor with those bactrian camels world conservationists said its one of the rarest camels & its near extinction with those nomadic mongolians in thier bohemian lifestyle just amazing experience many thanks indeed for sharing your awesome travels & cultural insights all the best!
You could see your dog running away for 3 days! 🤣
I was a visiting Professor at Inner Mongolia University and visited and taught in Hohhot regularly. Still have many friends from there. One of my ex students runs grasslands, stay in a Yurt holidays, with goat meat and alcohol drinks.
In Russia also still exist very strict registration procedure from Soviet Union days. It's restrict people from moving from one city to another place or region. It's nonsense for 21st century.
Awesome video!
You're right. I had no idea these people could not travel. 😢
That footage of cooking the goat from the inside was so disturbing.
You guys are the coolest. Keep it up Dudes
Great video 🎉😊
@8:45 Wonderful technique to have the cooking wessel from the skin and to economize fuel.
That Mongolian goat cooked with the hot rocks is really ingenious.
What’s the Chinese meanings on Winston T-shirt? And where can one buy it?
That young horse was adorable. Really feeling its oats.
The Rock monuments in Mongolia sound like thebinukshuk that the Inuit make up in the Northwest Territories
8:32 best massage everrrr
The Mongolia looks amazing.
We had a young Mongolian visit us among the plains Indians of Montana sponsored by our church. He, at least, did get to travel. I can not convey how much of a strong kinship we felt, like a close relative:, much in common.
my favorite videos from you when you were in monogolia
The link to your other Channel is not working ?
Flew at night in Inner Mongolia.
Pitch dark
Nothing
Nobody around.
My friend was afraid to fly at night and gave me his flights.
Interesting , I've been in Inner Mongolia for a while to do some work there , but I don't remember the name of the place . Went by plane to Tongliau airport , and from there another 2 hours by car to a place where we lived nearby a meat plant , but it was built in a former Mongolian army camp , which was occupied in 1974 or so . The cows we bought came from the Kerchin fields we were told . It was an interesting experience ! At 2100 hours all electricity was turned off in the main town , and it was possible to see a tremendous amount of starts and fast moving satellites , everything just above your head . The place where we stayed had a lot of train activity , a lot of charcoal from Russia went thru that place , 2 big locomotives pulling sometimes up to 62 transport trains . Think the name was chitta or conchiqa , something like that . We were also guarded by the guards of the place where we lived , and also by the local police . But we were doing business with important people from Peking , so we were not really bothered . We also had a Chinese translator who was afraid to translate the things we said to his superiors . For instance , we had in our kitchen old Kitchen Cabinets , and thru those cabinets there were also pipes from the heating system . The came in from a wall , but they never closes the hole in the wall the pipes came thru , and we had a rat problem . So our project leader wanted to have the problem solved immediately , but nothing happened . So he found a big hammer , and took down the rotten kitchen cabinets and threw it out of the door . The translator was in a shock , how to tell his boss , he was in big troubles he told me , because he had to explain it to his superior . Anyway , 2 days later we had a new kitchen , and the rats were gone . From that place we also had an open telephone line to outside china , and we had open internet . After a few month we went home , and we got escorted by a big black blinded car to Tongliau airport . We were very late , and not on time for the scheduled flight , but the guy from the factory told us that without their permission , the plane won't take off ! When we arrived , a lot of travelers were waiting , and we could enter the plane without even showing our passports , or weighting our luggage . The permitted hand luggage was only 8Kg for chinese people , but we didn't have any problems : the officials in the black car shouted orders , and they were carried out ! Can write many other things which happened during our stay , like the visit of a co-worker to a very professional acupuncturist , but then I could start a you-tube channel myself . . . . . . Anyway I always enjoy your episodes , especially the one about inner Mongolia . . . . .Tnx , and stay safe !
You'd be treated like a pesky foreigner now. Not like precious metal.
the meat is probably also tough not just how its cooked but the life the animal lived they are nomadic so the animal is always moving around and eating wildlife so its probably more like eating a deer in that sense how it tough and earthy tasting where in these big factory farms the animals are stuck standing still side by side all day everyday being fed all sorts of fatty foods with all sorts of hormones' ect into its diet and gets fat and not moving so its alot more tender and fatty its also alot less healthy
China show link in description box doesn’t work. Got an error message.
Just checked it out and your correct hopefully they see this
I know this might be a stretch. But would there be a way to get the boy a VR kit and send him videos (no voice or anything) of pretty places in of our region? I found (at least for myself) during confinement that exploring the world through a VR kit to be somewhat conforting even if it's a bit of a limited experience.
Even though it does not beat the real experience, I do think that is a really neat idea! Wonder if you could directly message them both of their TH-cam accounts(for better chance of seeing) so hopefully they can do it.😊
Wonder how mail would work for nomadic people?🤔🙃
Obviously, the VR can't even compare to the real thing. But while being stuck at home, standard videos are nice but VR felt a bit more "real". At the same time, I think it could be nice if many would all contribute showing a corner of their own world. At the same time show some love from across the world. "If you can go out into the world, we'll try to bring a part of the world to you"
But yeah, it would probably be quite a challenge to get that provided to them.
Thanks.
What is that purple flower in the first scene. I found one of those a few days ago. Never seen one before.
Thistle
Tagged yall in a vape factory "hidden Camera" video, I'd really love to hear your reactions.
it's a short with several millions of views. idk youtubes policy about links though
That is so sad to hear. To be trapped were you can go in your own Country, let alone go to other Countries is just sad.
I like the Mongolian attitude about not staying in one place. Mankind throughout history did not stay in one place.
@0:08 I was waiting for that guy to catch a pizza pie!
Very informative.
Nice!