great document!I'm from China and it's my first time to see many such photos of China in the 19th and early 20th century.

This help me understand China better. I’m from Malaysia. China has traded with Malaysia for 2000 years. In those years, they had been the world’s biggest powers many times. Never once they sent troops to take our land. Admiral Zheng He came to Malacca five times, in gigantic fleets, and a flagship eight times the size of Christopher Columbus’ flagship, Santa Maria. He could have seized Malacca easily, but he did not. In 1511, the Portuguese came. In 1642, the Dutch came. In the 18th century the British came. We were colonised by each, one after another. When China wanted spices from India, they traded with the Indians. When they wanted gems, they traded with the Persian. They didn’t take lands. The only time China expanded beyond their current borders was in Yuan Dynasty, when Genghis and his descendants Ogedei Khan, Guyuk Khan & Kublai Khan concurred China, Mid Asia and Eastern Europe. But Yuan Dynasty, although being based in China, was a part of the Mongolian Empire. Then came the Century of Humiliation. Britain smuggled opium into China to dope the population, a strategy to turn the trade deficit around, after the British could not find enough silver to pay the Qing Dynasty in their tea and porcelain trades. After the opium warehouses were burned down and ports were closed by the Chinese in ordered to curb opium, the British started the Opium War I, which China lost. Hong Kong was forced to be surrendered to the British in a peace talk (Nanjing Treaty). The British owned 90% of the opium market in China, during that time, Queen Victoria was the world’s biggest drug baron. The remaining 10% was owned by American merchants from Boston. Many of Boston’s institutions were built with profit from opium. After 12 years of Nanjing Treaty, the West started getting really really greedy. The British wanted the Qing government: 1. To open the borders of China to allow goods coming in and out freely, and tax free. 2. Make opium legal in China. Insane requests, Qing government said no. The British and French, with supports from the US and Russia from behind, started Opium War II with China, which again, China lost. The Anglo-French military raided the Summer Palace, and threatened to burn down the Imperial Palace, the Qing government was forced to pay with ports, free business zones, 300,000 kilograms of silver and Kowloon was taken. Since then, China’s resources flew out freely through these business zones and ports. In the subsequent amendment to the treaties, Chinese people were sold overseas to serve as labor. In 1900, China suffered attacks by the 8-National Alliance(Japan, Russia, Britain, France, USA, Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary). Innocent Chinese civilians in Peking (Beijing now) were murdered, buildings were destroyed & women were raped. The Imperial Palace was raided, and treasures ended up in museums like the British Museum in London and the Louvre in Paris. In late 1930s China was occupied by the Japanese in WWII. Millions of Chinese died during the occupancy. 300,000 Chinese died in Nanjing Massacre alone. Mao brought China together again from the shambles. There were peace and unity for some time. But Mao’s later reign saw sufferings and deaths from famine and power struggles. Then came Deng Xiao Ping and his infamous “black-cat and white-cat” story. His preference in pragmatism than ideologies has transformed China. This thinking allowed China to evolve all the time to adapt to the actual needs in the country, instead of rigidly bounded to ideologies. It also signified the death of Communism in actually practice in China. The current Socialism+Meritocracy+Market Economy model fits the Chinese like gloves, and it propels the uprise of China. Singapore has a similar model, and has been arguably more successful than Hong Kong, because Hong Kong being gateway to China, was riding on the economic boom in China, while Singapore had no one to gain from. In just 30 years, the CPC have moved 800 millions of people out from poverty. The rate of growth is unprecedented in human history. They have built the biggest mobile network, by far the biggest high speed rail network in the world, and they have become a behemoth in infrastructure. They made a fishing village called Shenzhen into the world’s second largest technological centre after the Silicon Valley. They are growing into a technological power house. It has the most elaborate e-commerce and cashless payment system in the world. They have launched exploration to Mars. The Chinese are living a good life and China has become one of the safest countries in the world. The level of patriotism in the country has reached an unprecedented height. For all of the achievements, the West has nothing good to say about it. China suffers from intense anti-China propagandas from the West. Western Media used the keyword “Communist” to instil fear and hatred towards China. Everything China does is negatively reported. They claimed China used slave labor in making iPhones. The truth was, Apple was the most profitable company in the world, it took most of the profit, leave some to Foxconn (a Taiwanese company) and little to the labor. They claimed China was inhuman with one-child policy. At the same time, they accused China of polluting the earth with its huge population. The fact is the Chinese consume just 30% of energy per capita compared to the US. They claimed China underwent ethnic cleansing in Xinjiang. The fact is China has a policy which priorities ethnic minorities. For a long time, the ethnic minorities were allowed to have two children and the majority Han only allowed one. The minorities are allowed a lower score for university intakes. There are 39,000 mosque in China, and 2100 in the US. China has about 3 times more mosque per muslim than the US. When terrorist attacks happened in Xinjiang, China had two choices: 1. Re-educate the Uighur extremists before they turned terrorists. 2. Let them be, after they launch attacks and killed innocent people, bomb their homes. China chose 1 to solve problem from the root and not to do killing. How the US solve terrorism? Fire missiles from battleships, drop bombs from the sky. During the pandemic, When China took extreme measures to lockdown the people, they were accused of being inhuman. When China recovered swiftly because of the extreme measures, they were accused of lying about the actual numbers. When China’s cases became so low that they could provide medical support to other countries, they were accused of politically motivated. Western Media always have reasons to bash China. Just like any country, there are irresponsible individuals from China which do bad and dirty things, but the China government overall has done very well. But I hear this comment over and over by people from the West: I like Chinese people, but the CPC is evil. What they really want is the Chinese to change the government, because the current one is too good. Fortunately China is not a multi-party democratic country, otherwise the opposition party in China will be supported by notorious NGOs (Non-Government Organization) of the USA, like the NED (National Endowment for Democracy), to topple the ruling party. The US and the British couldn’t crack Mainland China, so they work on Hong Kong. Of all the ex-British colonial countries, only the Hong Kongers were offered BNOs by the British. Because the UK would like the Hong Kongers to think they are British citizens, not Chinese. A divide-and-conquer strategy, which they often used in Color Revolutions around the world. They resort to low dirty tricks like detaining Huawei’s CFO & banning Huawei. They raised a silly trade war which benefits no one. Trade deficit always exist between a developing and a developed country. USA is like a luxury car seller who ask a farmer: why am I always buying your vegetables and you haven’t bought any of my cars? When the Chinese were making socks for the world 30 years ago, the world let it be. But when Chinese started to make high technology products, like Huawei and DJI, it caused red-alert. Because when Western and Japanese products are equal to Chinese in technologies, they could never match the Chinese in prices. First world countries want China to continue in making socks. Instead of stepping up themselves, they want to pull China down. The recent movement by the US against China has a very important background. When Libya, Iran, and China decided to ditch the US dollar in oil trades, Gaddafi’s was killed by the US, Iran was being sanctioned by the US, and now it’s China’s turn. The US has been printing money out of nothing. The only reason why the US Dollar is still widely accepted, is because it’s the only currency which oil is allowed to be traded with. The US has an agreement with Saudi that oil must be traded in US dollar ONLY. Without the petrol-dollar status, the US dollars will sink, and America will fall. Therefore anyone trying to disobey this order will be eliminated. China will soon use a gold-backed crypto-currency, the alarms in the White House go off like mad. China’s achievement has been by hard work. Not buy looting the world. I have deep sympathy for China for all the suffering, but now I feel happy for them. China is not rising, they are going back to where they belong. Good luck China. -Zeis Siez

@odyssey327

8 ай бұрын

Bravo! Your comments deserve more thumbs up from people. I am a historian, particularly on the history of China and I couldn't agree more with the brief account you wrote on China.

@Lord-ds6mz

8 ай бұрын

Wow, historian, which country are you from, bro?@@odyssey327

@wk3960

8 ай бұрын

US greatest export is toilet paper money backed by sanction and bombs. BTW the dollar dont belong to US. It belongs to the FED RESV. THE BANKSTERS OWN AMERICA. The banksters use America to rule the world. All their soldiers who went to war died for the banks not their county. Their lives so cheap.

@MrLifc

8 ай бұрын

A very objective description🎉

@JohnalW

8 ай бұрын

讲太多了！外国人听不懂的。”真理永远在大炮射程内“。解放军现在的”大炮“，东风27超音速反舰导弹的射程是5000~8000公里......

Mr. Bill Einreinhofer, thank you very much to share with us the precious images you'd collected.

@Garbeaux.

4 ай бұрын

You’re welcome from The Einreinhofer Family.

Great documentary. Thanks

This was an amazing documentary! Great work, learned a lot

Thank you Bill, 感谢你作为一位普通的外国友人，真实地描写中国，中国人和其他国际上的大多数国家人民一样，热爱和平，友善，努力，希望这个地球大家庭相互友爱，共同为地球的未来一起努力，而不是互相仇恨，互相竞争。“让”生“爱”， “争”生“恨”。

@love87557388

8 ай бұрын

共产党是要推翻全球的秩序

@hanslee1018

7 ай бұрын

退一步海阔天空

High respect to Bill, what an honest and open journalist!

A big Thank You for producing this fantastic documentary.

Thoughtful, high quality documentary. I've gotten new insights about a few things here. Not just about China but "Life". --Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

What a touching documentary, I can’t help tearing watching this

Can't help my tears at end of the video! "Their stories live on through me, and now they live on through you as well". ❤

Great documentary. I am Chinese and have been living in the US for more than 25 years. It is the first that I see many photos and video clips in this documentary.

@dfl4771

8 ай бұрын

Me too

Best U Tupe history channel I learned a lot ❤👍

Thank you Bill for a awesome doumentary and thanks to those who share theirs story.

Thanks Bill! I was very touched by this documentary.

泪流满面😭谢谢比尔❤ 我们这个民族的近代史真的太心酸了，这片土地上太多悲情故事。也因为有那些正直的善良的人们，这个民族才在一次次磨难中成长起来，希望我的祖国越来越好，也希望不要在有战争，真正富足的生活并不长久，祈祷国运昌盛吧，还能说什么呢？哎

@user-ep1rm5ex7i

9 ай бұрын

可惜如今走上了一条完全不同的道路

@user-sg4hg6gk2y

9 ай бұрын

​@@user-ep1rm5ex7i来来来，请指教😂不同是指啥

@user-ep1rm5ex7i

9 ай бұрын

@@user-sg4hg6gk2y自然是像朝鲜学习😅

@user-sg4hg6gk2y

9 ай бұрын

@@user-ep1rm5ex7i 你这给我整不会了，咱能不说笑不😂

@dhzhbb

8 ай бұрын

@@user-sg4hg6gk2y走上了给独裁者中共当奴隶的道路

You are the one to be thanked for making such a wonderful documentary on an important part of Chinese history. Thanks Bill.

Awesome documentary, great history lesson! ❤

Tears in my eyes when watching Mr. Einreinhofer's documentary, from a Chinese child born in 1989

this perspective is so special

The Chinese had survived many difficulties of bitterness throughout. They will now excel and shine.

@summer12151

9 ай бұрын

Like what they did with Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism ? 😮

@johnli6430

9 ай бұрын

​@summer12151 yes ! Like what they did in Tibet ..now Tibet is more developed and prosperous under PRC.. unlike under the Dalai lama before who had serfdom and slavery .😅

@songhanshan9843

9 ай бұрын

Yep, Dalai Lama was the biggest slave owner in 20th century since the majority of Tibetan are serfs. CCP saved them, transformed Tibet into a liberal world from a theocracy.

@tanjongmalim6869

8 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@trapper1511

8 ай бұрын

​@@johnli6430its not the money and cell phones I am talking about. Its how Tibetan religion and culture were systematically destroyed under the communists 😮

Great job. Thanks for your video.

Great respect to the maker of this documentry and leaders and people of China.

THANKS FOR THIS BEAUITFUL DOCUMENTARY

Thanks.谢谢纪录，让我从另一面了解历史

世界人民团结进步很重要啊…I don’t normally drop tears, but once at the end of the documentary. Suddenly I realized Bill summarized the four generations of my family in one video and reminded me how we ppl should work together for a better future for humanity TOGETHER, no more “stars” counts on our fighter jets …

Thank you, 含着眼泪看完了您的记录片， 作为一个中国人，我感谢您的努力与付出

Thank you for sharing

Chi Che and gratulations for this well made documentary Sir 🙏

Pearl S Buck and her famous book the Good Earth deserved mention in this video. She was an American novelist who lived in China .

Wow, great video😊

An exceptional documentary documenting an exceptional country, like Phoenix, rising from its ashes

Great effort, thank you

Very tastefully done!

感谢你用心记录着我们国家的发展历史！

I not yet go through this video yet but will give you a like first for doing this video of the Chinese.👍👍👍👏👏👏🙏🙏🙏

great documentary and great people

great people in China

@Garbeaux.

4 ай бұрын

Chinese*

@ltbriar1

Ай бұрын

I like “great people in China” because the term includes not only ethnic Chinese but people who lived or live there, especially those that spent their childhood during the wars and difficult times. Their words prove that part of history really existed regardless how the Japanese govt and politicians try to wash it away. I can forgive Japanese for their greedy invasion but I will not forgive them for their coward denial and distortion of what their ancestors’ crime.

At 23.22min the narrator describes the Japanese atrocities as similar to German atrocities. I always thought that the Japanese made the Germans look like angels

@Laobiao666

8 ай бұрын

The massacre caused by the Germans was a systematic top-down genocide. The massacre caused by the Japanese was a widespread madness that permeates the entire Japanese society.

这是一个美国人视角下的中国近代史纪录片，乍一看很真实但是其实也很表面。只突出了日本的侵华，驱赶了租界里面的欧美"友人"，但是却没有说西方人是先于日本人对腐朽的满清进行了侵略和利益划分，租界就是那时候的产物，只是日本驱赶了他们影响了他们的在华利益而已。 没有免费得来的爱和和平，背后总会充满了战争和压榨，只是这个矛盾是对内输出还是对外转嫁而已。

@user-fg2ux3no6g

8 ай бұрын

对，完全不提八国联军侵华战争🤮🤮🤮

@user-yq5he3rg8o

8 ай бұрын

对，当时是个欧洲国家就能在中国身上咬一口。

Kita anak cucu lahir di indonesia tapi bagi kami negara kakek moyang tetap bagian budaya kami tetap menjunjungi tinggi budayanya tanpa mereka tdk mungkin ada kita turun temurun.❤❤ Di sana kami di situlah tanah kelahiran kita❤❤

@Andy-kf8bh

8 ай бұрын

Agree 👍👍

Bill,thank you very much!

Appreciation to the career- long devotion to the film!

Thank you Bill for your sincere record. It is an excellent documentary. Its account of China's modern times can be called a romantic epic. It is in line with my understanding of our country's history and is impartial.

I have met the only elder who understands history from many angles. I admire you from the bottom of my heart❤❤❤ from China🤝 So I believe here will be able to meet rational foreign friends, I am always waiting for your number🤝🤝🤝

Very great dpcumentary I have ever met.

Very nice documentary

It will bode well for the future, to teach about the hardships of the past and the principles of living frugally to the young to continue the strength of the future people.

已经是一个拍摄很详细的纪录片了，记录了从清朝灭亡到当今的中国！很厉害的纪录片导演！

@user-ml2go7zu4j

8 ай бұрын

详细什么？共和国前三十年干的事是提都不提。屁股歪的可以

Great video, Than you.

As a Chinese, I thank you so much for the precious video documentary of our history!

Bel documentario e istruttivo. Viva la Cina, antica e moderna.

A simplified, very engaging and unbiased documentary to describe how China progress after the fall of the last dynasty. They learnt the hard way that military might is a MUST to have peace

I literally teared in the last bit. Thanks so much for documentary the brief China history. Being many years' oversea student and returned to China for years, I resonate with many images and memory. We will stay strong and carry on with the kindness in our heart no matter what.

@alanmeng3013

8 ай бұрын

Taking an objective view of history, extracting its essence, and discarding its shortcomings, let us continue to progress! I am an English learner,it’s nice to you at the channel.😢

从一些个人经历的角度讲历史，谢谢比尔。Bill, thank you very much for the history from personal perspective!

Excellent!!!!

Thank you Bill! 谢谢🙏🏿比尔

GOOD VIDEO THANK YOU!

Thank you very much bill

Americans living in 1930s China: we saw children being bayoneted. Japanese today: What war?

@Fj8282haha

2 ай бұрын

太对了Right on! Almost no my japs frd know ab dat.. they just know there was once war vs. china know too much about the china - Japan war more than historian. These division is causing more problems… forgive but not forget for better future

Algorithms recommend what we like to watch, and if we're not actively looking for different points of views, most likely we'll be exposed to views we agree with most of the time. I’ve been trying to watch various channels to try to make comprehensive understanding of the world. I’ve made many videos teaching Chinese language in a vivid and humorous way. I hope somebody can recommend my videos to those who want to learn Chinese. For beginners, Chinese characters may look complicated. But once you learn about 100 basic radicals, most characters become easy. I hope more people can learn Chinese to get comprehensive firsthand information about China and most likely seek more job opportunities. Know ourselves as well as our partners, competitors, adversaries….. Learning a completely different foreign language is fun. Seeing problems from different perspectives enriches our thinking.

Thank you, their story from you to me.

我来自中国，好作品！所述基本属实！感动，谢谢作者

good one

Thank u so much . Learn a lot from different perspectives. 非常感谢🙏

A documentary to make me a cry.

Thanks!

谢谢你🙏

很棒的关于中国的纪录片，谢谢中文字幕

Very good job！

Nice 👍

Thanks.

讲述的很真实，不错

Great respect to the chinese people, strong, wise, enduring.

@cjnguyen5812

9 ай бұрын

and now broke 😂

@bakecook8121

9 ай бұрын

Your mother is broken

@epicbluerat9999

9 ай бұрын

@bakecook8121 shhhhh, I still feel bad about that, I promised I'd go easy on her but when I got a feel for that kitty I beat it up.

@shashajoe10

9 ай бұрын

​@@cjnguyen5812 You vietnam sgould be broken into two south and north

@cjnguyen5812

9 ай бұрын

@@bakecook8121 she broken the Chinese flu curse

thank you bill

So great of ..... for all ❤

thanks

Thanks for making this documentary with a western eye.

❤The Chinese thank you for your efforts, the film you made is very wonderful, thank you！

谢谢🙏

وشكرا جزيلا دائما على التوالي 😮

respect to Bill

感谢你制作这样的视频对于中国人来说他十分珍贵

thanks a lot to have given me a chance to know my own country.

thx

谢谢！

I love the way you present the show, hope there is no war on USA and China for Chine don’t want to be the Master of the world, It’s too big for the two countries to be together.

当作者最后说出“谢谢”两个字时，我泪目了。想说：“同样谢谢您让我再次了解了我们国家的历史，也让我认识了这个伟大的国家的改变，同时，通过您的视频也让更多的外国朋友了解中国，感谢您所做的一切。”👏

Aaaa queria muito ouvir em Lingua Português essa história

China’s 75th birthday coming up in a few days! Long live China, a country I love and feel very privileged to be living in❤

ብጣዕሚ ደስ ዝብል ታሪኽ

@user-ns2dt3le1e

9 ай бұрын

Wow what is this language?

@Kemalemeye

9 ай бұрын

@@user-ns2dt3le1e this language is Tigrinya from Eritrea. Thanks .

@user-ns2dt3le1e

9 ай бұрын

@@Kemalemeye i google searched it first by your username but thanks for reply! Tiringya scripts has very unique feel to it like a cuneiform

@tyronevaldez-kruger5313

9 ай бұрын

​@@Kemalemeye I can't read Tigrinya (alphabet is hard) but I speak it fluently. Eritrea is special with a potential to accomplish great things.

Can I ask you a question, what does your logo the hand with the 3 fingers mean?

A China le perjudicó muchísimo abandonar su tradicional "Patrón de la Plata", una moneda muy estable que le permitía comerciar con todo el Mundo. Creo que eso sucedió a principios del Siglo 20, así fue como comenzó un período de decadencia económica para China, la Plata aseguraba una moneda estable, algo que no deseaban Japón e Inglaterra. Después de su cruenta guerra civil, China abrazó el Comunismo, un Sistema político que modificó sustancialmente después de la muerte de Mao Zedong. Hoy China es una Potencia económica, atrás quedaron los tiempos oscuros, al que no quieren volver jamás 🇨🇳

Emotional documentry .

谢谢

大大的谢谢❤❤

非常感谢

很好❤

muchas gracias por la traduccion al castellano.

平和、友善地叙述