Looking China: Manchu culture in modern China

The Manchu people used to rule over all of China during the Qing Dnasty, but where are the Manchu people in the 21st Century? After centuries of contact with Han Chinese, Manchu culture seems to be fading from memory and only a handful of people can still speak the Manchu language. Filmmaker Evan Luchkow travels to Jilin Province in northeast China to discover what contemporary Manchu culture looks like against the backdrop of a rapidly modernizing China. It turns out while Manchu culture may be fading, it is also making a surprising resurgence in unexpected places. Manchu culture remains a powerful and persistent influence on the culture and trajectory of modern China.
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[@mrfarenheit0323]

i don't blame the manchu for the qing dynasty and china becoming "backwards" in the 20th century, in fact i think early qing had some of china's better rulers. however the manchu language and culture were put on the sacrificial altar when the manchu crossed shanhai pass into china. the manchu themselves said that china is meant to be a multiethnic empire and that manchu have just as much of a right as han chinese to rule the entirety of china. this idea was forced onto china on threat of death (along with the hotly debated queue hairstyle). so why is anyone surprised when the descendants of manchu turned out to have adopted mainstream chinese culture, which is largely han culture? i think the language and culture is worth preserving, but its demise shouldn't be anyone's surprise.

[@christinem4266]

Tbh, you can find more Manchu culture and Manchus in Beijing.

[@Luchkow]

It was such an adventure making this film and learning about Manchu people in China. A big thank you to CGTN for featuring our film!

[@alicem1150]

What about Manchu language, music and dance?

[@toobalkain]

That's it, non existing eagles and cutting paper? Didn't they have opera and theatre and music and sports and books and philosophy?

[@JanetofAvalon]

I prefer voiceovers because the subtitles are too small to read .

[@dodykusumanto8377]

Manchu will always live. Their language probably on the brink of extinction. However they already abandon them even during the Qing era. In fact, like it narrated in the video, Manchu influences on todays Chinese culture runs deep. The Qing Dynasty remains one of the popular subject in Chinese pop culture, and the so called Chinese traditional clothes that knows troughout the world like qipao or cheongsam or changsan actually comes from Manchu origin. It's sad to see the Manchu language on the brink of extinction. But there will always be people who work to preserve that. And even if it died, the Manchu will still alive in some form. In fact, the modern Beijing dialect of the Mandarin language is the "new" Manchu language since it was the language that spoken by the Manchus during the Qing Dynasty while the Han especially in the South speaks Cantonese or Hokkian. So don't worry. Manchu will always live.

[@fooksengloke3625]

There is at least one singer who was a Manchurian princess.

[@NikhileshSurve]

What about the language? Language is just as important or perhaps even more important aspect of any culture.

[@manbahadurtamang6402]

I am Tamang but same like manchu , miou, wa , zhuang and tibetain ....

[@kennysmith5066]

WTF! You still haven't found the purpose of anything.

[@andriadipura6393]

So, the vampire dresses in popular culture are actually Manchurian traditional dress?

[@buxtonandrew8111]

Those shoes belonged to the concubines in the harem . Not the emperor .

[@annc4260]

Thank you for making this video about Manchu people and Manchu culture! As a person with Manchu heritage, I feel sad to loose my language and culture. The only connection I had with my Manchu background is some random things my grandma used to tell me.

[@9grand]

His shoes ? It is a girl shoes ! How can a chinese channel can allow such mistake !?

[@MegaCassie83]

My mother's .40% Manchurian and Mongolian ancestry. They then interacted with south east and west Africans. Then came to the America's. I am Chumash, Taos Pueblo, Cahokia, Mayan, and Nazca. With more recent ancestry coming from Mexico and the US.

[@user-uy4pd4qg7g]

song at

[@jtwu8931]

The so-called “Mandarin” that is wildly spoken today has strong influence from Manchu. Try talking to southern people in their native tongues, it’s like a foreign language

[@bbr6444]

This Manchu man has blue eyes. Interesting.

[@VChong1991]

There are no more pure blood manchus anymore