i grow up in a town near by guanxian. thanks for the video let me know .my anancestor 'so daily life .i am vey happy to see more of this kind of video .thank you very much
What is the name of this village now? You know it's not very different nowadays in farming communities throughout the world...even in America. Us kids went to school and my Dad farmed. My mom would go out and bring my Dad's lunch. I was a Boy Scout too.
Of course it's not their voices. 99% of the audio is just the American narrator talking, it therefore would have made very little sense to record/include original audio for the remaining 1%...
China in the 30s seems to be doing well in this video. It's interesting to see this bc the communist China depicts eras before 1949 as eras of suffering.
What the video don't show you is the opium addicted children and people which had an alarming high rate back then, thanks to the british. :( The chinese weren't allowed to ban it and it wasn't until communist china, when Mao Zedong made sure to rid the opium trade and forced all addicts to rehab.
China has very bad luck in this one hundred plus years. First is the decay of Qin Dynasty, then comes chaotic of war lords and foreign power invasions, then wwII, finally communist disaster blows china into pieces.
LOL, this was clearly a well-off landowner family and every scene was carefully choreographed to suit its intended Western/US audience. The staging and scenography follows closely that of similar educational films of the time from the US. This Chinese family just went along and played its part.
i grow up in a town near by guanxian. thanks for the video let me know .my anancestor 'so daily life .i am vey happy to see more of this kind of video .thank you very much
thx alot for the film its a treasure for all of us =)
What is the name of this village now? You know it's not very different nowadays in farming communities throughout the world...even in America. Us kids went to school and my Dad farmed. My mom would go out and bring my Dad's lunch. I was a Boy Scout too.
Very interesting video.
Originally released in January 1941.
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Pretty sure those kids voices are dubbed.
Nah they just hit puberty really early in life
Of course it's not their voices. 99% of the audio is just the American narrator talking, it therefore would have made very little sense to record/include original audio for the remaining 1%...
this video makes me think too much .
China in the 30s seems to be doing well in this video. It's interesting to see this bc the communist China depicts eras before 1949 as eras of suffering.
What the video don't show you is the opium addicted children and people which had an alarming high rate back then, thanks to the british. :(
The chinese weren't allowed to ban it and it wasn't until communist china, when Mao Zedong made sure to rid the opium trade and forced all addicts to rehab.
China has very bad luck in this one hundred plus years. First is the decay of Qin Dynasty, then comes chaotic of war lords and foreign power invasions, then wwII, finally communist disaster blows china into pieces.
LOL, this was clearly a well-off landowner family and every scene was carefully choreographed to suit its intended Western/US audience. The staging and scenography follows closely that of similar educational films of the time from the US. This Chinese family just went along and played its part.
This is a very rare rich family