1:40 that guy was waving to us. Hello from 2020!!

@AlexRoseGames

3 жыл бұрын

little did that guy realise that would be the most famous thing he'd ever do in his life. that 3 second moment will be preserved for centuries when everyone else who long forgot his name have died

@user-wu9bs3dc8j

3 жыл бұрын

ディズニー

@MrCakocalypse

3 жыл бұрын

He was a nice guy which you would like to meet and have a cup of tea and talk😃

@mandocool

2 жыл бұрын

Nice people wave

My grandmother was born in Beijing in 1929. It's really great to be able to see what she may have seen as a child. If she wasn't blind now with cataracts, I'd show her this to see if it jogs her memories of old Beijing.

@JgvnkhgbbKhrfhutfhk

2 жыл бұрын

My grandmother was born in Peking in 1931. She just passed away two months ago. It would have been nice if I could show her this ...

This commentary was humane, unlike arrogant commentaries that showed the contempt they were held in by some. Much more objective about his subject, their is empathy there too.

@avecmoi9429

3 жыл бұрын

However, he is completely wrong about how Chinese see death. I am an American economist who taught and researched for 12 years. I also saw of Chinese cry wen her loved ones or friends died. They also have plenty of sympathy for foreigners who are grieving In other words, Chinese are ordinary humans. Births deaths, anniversaries, etc. are all important to Chinese and other humans. Also the announcer is completely wrong about Chinese not liking their pics taken for fear of losing their soul. This has always been absolutely fails Chinese quickly embraced photography when it started in the 1800s.

@PureVikingPowers

3 жыл бұрын

Very inaccurate commentary but i like the video if muted

@MeiinUK

2 жыл бұрын

@@avecmoi9429 : I think he's talking about Confucianism.... i.e. Meaning that... chinese people, see death as a motivation to be good, in this lifetime. Even today.. people often see death.. or to imagine death.. in order to do good... as a living human being.

@Miracle-world777

2 күн бұрын

In those years Medias and reporters were much more independent Not yet controlled by politicians

For a 1930 documentry, this is an exceptionally positive comment on China.

@geogsf179

4 жыл бұрын

America had a more positive feeling, albeit paternalistic, toward China than other powers. That is, until now.

@mathewtoll6780

4 жыл бұрын

Weren't they allies at that time?

@MrLarossi

4 жыл бұрын

@@geogsf179 because China at that time had a different government than current one

@JKMT

4 жыл бұрын

@@MrLarossi China had a government that was a slave that obeyed everything

@user-bd2oh3hp1j

4 жыл бұрын

Because back that time China is a poor and weak country, cannot be the quote “strategic competitor” of USA, so its OK for positive. but now.... haha

Thank you for posting all these films on the net. They are all very important documentaries.

thanks for sharing this footage...I've visited Beijing twice before...amazed by the architectures from this footage even after 80+ years.

The contrast between the rich Chinese and poor Chinese is very clearly shown.

@antediluvianclockwork9769

4 жыл бұрын

The gap is even wider today!

@sheldonfish5161

4 жыл бұрын

same thing today

@antediluvianclockwork9769

4 жыл бұрын

@@sheldonfish5161 food back then was better

@s0so328

3 жыл бұрын

Antediluvian Clockwork lol what? There is, of course, a wage gap but it is obviously smaller for the general population

@user-kw4wc1he4h

3 жыл бұрын

America today is pretty damn obvious as is most countries other than those countries where like half of your earnings is taxed and you’re given shit healthcare in return... oh wait those countries have extremely rich and extremely poor too!

this really a great movie, shows bejing a long time ago.....

thx for uploading!

It was not long ago that the last of old China was destroyed to make way for today's modern structures. Thousands of years of culture and tradition were lost forever. This was only about ten to eleven yrs. ago. It is so sad to see such beauty lost.

@jacklee-oc3tv

5 жыл бұрын

no...it was 1966-1976

Wonderful documentary! The narrator could have done a wonderful W.C. Fields impression with just a little adjustment.

这就是祥子时候的北京阿，太感动了！thanks for posting

I have a Chinese Great grandmother who was born in Foochow. She married an American who was working for the Chinese Maritime Customs Service. Two of their sons lived in the same area as my Grandmother and much about her relationship with one of them remains clouded with the perceived shame of out of wedlock pregnancy with a biracial young man.

@slavish_superiority

Жыл бұрын

You can tell her， in today's China, no one cares about such things anymore. Almost half of the young people have the experience of unmarried pregnancies. Those with biracial blood are more fashionable.

@GinnyC1961

Жыл бұрын

@@slavish_superiority I wish I could've met My grandfather and his family. But either they weren't allowed to know my father or they didn't want to.

@weizhang2834

Жыл бұрын

Thanks anti China propaganda for 73 years!

@slavish_superiority

Жыл бұрын

@@weizhang2834 Sensitive and suspicious, narrow -minded

Notice the Chinese-men are not wearing pig tails, for the most part, anymore. They wore them in the Qing dynasty 1200 till 1912. By the 1920's pig tails were no more ! Thanks for the upload!

@perfectstudents8361

5 жыл бұрын

I think it's more accurate to call it "queue" rather than "pigtails." The Qing Dynasty didn't start in 1200. It ruled China for almost 300 years from 1644 to 1912. In 1922, the last emperor Puyi cut his queue (pigtails) too.

@liliencalvel6151

5 жыл бұрын

@@perfectstudents8361 Thanks for sharing.

@liliencalvel6151

5 жыл бұрын

You are beautiful. Are you Chinese?

I was just there two weeks ago!!it is magnificent!

Wow! What history and I am not living too far from where this was taken! Incidently, I'm American!

Thank you for this video 📷, I always enjoy the company of Chinese people, and the food!!

Love that guy at 1:41, he's all like NI HAO!!!!!

This is fascinating!

Awesome!

2:37 That's the Tiananmen Square !! Look carefully it still doesn't have the Mao portrait hung up there yet.

@geogsf179

4 жыл бұрын

Haha, a good one. He was hanging on to his life in 1930. He eventually won. That's what has mattered for China.

@user-ne8uj5ux7g

4 жыл бұрын

@@geogsf179 And Mao fucked china up.

@mtlicq

4 жыл бұрын

wow your comment is from 10 years ago already ! internet is getting oldl Look even more carefully, Someone else's portrait is hung there. Who is it?

@rainoa5558

4 жыл бұрын

@@mtlicq see u next 10 years

@song1861

4 жыл бұрын

@Qianlima exactly like it or not Mao united China.

I jonesing for some cake. He kept calling Peking “Piping” so often I couldn’t help think about piping on frosting onto a cake. So now I’m craving cake

@erikschaepers

3 жыл бұрын

I always think of a plumber when he says "piping" .. good documentary though

@Miracle-world777

2 күн бұрын

In those years, Peking (Beijing) was called piping (Beiping)

This video amazed me.!

@christianinnerhofer823

4 жыл бұрын

You tried to give me coronavirus with this comment (joke) 🤣

This was one of James A. FitzPatrick’s earliest “Traveltalks”.

0:29 1910년대 지어진 한국의 부산역하고 너무 비슷. 그리고 인디애나주 인디애나폴리스에 모자의 챙처럼 나와 있는 구조와 유사한 구조의 건물도 있음.

I have a feeling the guy at 1:40 figured out time travel and wormholed his way from our times to 1930 to wave at us.

i think the video taker was very excited when getting on the great wall

4:33小时候 记得都是这么剪头的

@cuteameri no, much earlier, in the 1890s

At 2:38, the caption should say "Tartar City," not "charter city."

那时候的视频影像

Just noticed how old the video and reply were

En la toma del minuto 5,40 se pueden ver a las mujeres de la época luciendo su tradicional "pie de loto" (una deformación producida de manera forzada de los pies para que no crecieran). Ojo ese era un lujo. Hoy ya son muy pocas las mujeres que se aprecian con esa deformación, sólo ancianas de edad muy avanzada o artistas de la "Opera de Beijing"

@mastomasto6197

4 жыл бұрын

Sim uma tradição cruel para certas mulheres de algumas etnias.

Getting a 13 year old video about history recommended cause of youtube algorithm? "You know me too well..."

China is so fascinating.

@5t3ltbl4

3 жыл бұрын

see u in beijing

@angelusvastator1297

3 жыл бұрын

Not so much anymore.

@ZoltanDeluxe

3 жыл бұрын

Shameful that the beutiful culture that China had were erased by the CCP. I hope they find their way back.

@slavish_superiority

Жыл бұрын

Most of the monuments here are ruined，Like the old city walls, all torn down by Mao....Even if something exists today, the surrounding environment and the decoration of the exterior have been wrongly refurbished, and turn to the Tourism Profitable Project

@xiangvun

10 ай бұрын

​@@ZoltanDeluxeMe too 😊😊

Yes ! I love KMT !!

It's funny when he called it "piping", but I suppose back then, people didn't have a standard pronounciation as well. He was kind of wrong when he stated that was "the temple"... I think that was a section of the Imperial Palace.... Maybe dated as far back as the Qin dynasty... I presume. He said "the chartered city", what did he mean by that ?? So the "Forbidden City" was allowed to be filmed ? Somehow I do not think that he was a priest. I am guessing that he was an enuch.. or one of the old Imperial's servants... and he looked after the building. If the other "palaces" for Ming or whatever "dynasties" were created outside of this. It meant that, once the old Dynasty had fallen, and someone created a new dynasty, the old ones, were not lived in. There is a myth that, most chinese do not like old things. This is why... but... It isn't one do not like old things, rather than to respect that it belonged to someone else, and it should not be owned or something. The Emperor prayed ?? I think the Emperor kowtowed to the sky to "hope" his subjects were loyal or something...

@MeiinUK

4 жыл бұрын

He mentioned that the women's feet were bound and that Empress Dowager Cixi was in the other palace ? I am assuming that, she made women bound their feet to keep their circulation or other. Cos it occurred to me only in recent years that chinese were anaemic... So I can now understand how bound feets were really a way to keep circulation going. She was known as one of the matriarchy to keep the lineage of the empire going.... I now get why TCM was always so important to us Chinese.... It was to keep the population going. I know that ginseng was really a Korean thing, which prolonged circulation or other. Or rather, maybe in hindsight, more like Mongols... Or Manchu race by that time I think. And those haircuts... I think those guys were probably villagers who still followed the Qing dynasty's dress code etc. Maybe Hans Chinese.. This is actually a really sad video... In my mind, a lot of things finally clicked... I cannot really believe that this was from the 1930s...

@davec1615

3 жыл бұрын

he said the "Tartar city" (likely referring to the Manchu section) , not "chartered city"

@user-ry6sx4xv1x

3 жыл бұрын

您说的特对，特正确

@slavish_superiority

Жыл бұрын

It's not "Piping", but "BeiPing"(北平)，another name of Peking（北京）city. it should sounds like “bay-ping”....western foreigners often pronounce wrong Mandarin.

@slavish_superiority

Жыл бұрын

the Temple of Heaven（天坛） is another palace outside Forbidden city（紫禁城故宫），used for offering sacrifices to heaven god and praying for the New Year，it's not a section of the Imperial Palace. the first time Peking city became a Imperial capital is Liao Dynasty at 1125 AD，not Qin dynasty.

0:12 Notice the Republic of China map...

@mingpoyang

4 жыл бұрын

This map showed Mongolia and Tibet were very much part of China. Only Mongolia got independent later. This claim Tibet was a independent nation can be said to be totally false.

@CrazyLeiFeng

4 жыл бұрын

Mingpo Yang It includes Tannu Tuwa too, I believe. Now it’s in Russia.

@DeclinedMercy

4 жыл бұрын

Tibet was functionally independent from 1912 until the PLA invasion.

@dkwhattouseasusername1012

Жыл бұрын

Idk if this is sarcasm, can't really tell through the screen but that is the Qing dynasty's or I think it is because Mongolia is inside

2:35 天安門に掲げてある文字は「 要废除不平等条约 」 (Abolish the unequal treaties) ?

@user-wh8em5mx7y

6 жыл бұрын

今は「世界人民大団結万歳」だよね

@kennyholeater2494

5 жыл бұрын

You are a wicked Godless race -- we America will crush you by any means necessary

@monkey8884

5 жыл бұрын

@@kennyholeater2494 America cannot do anything.

@charptho

4 жыл бұрын

@@kennyholeater2494 how are you supposed to crush them if all your hammer are made in china ?

3:27 who was this guy, like a boss ?...

@liliencalvel6151

5 жыл бұрын

Lol!

@liliencalvel6151

5 жыл бұрын

You should go pay him a visit.

@blee04524

4 жыл бұрын

@@liliencalvel6151 hes a dead meat

@ssfiore

4 жыл бұрын

He's a priest of the temple, as narrated by the narrator. just a positive fella

@Miracle-world777

2 күн бұрын

Even in those years, 1930s He understood that he was recorded, that's truly amazing

I heard the narrator said "Piping"?

@victorwaiholim515

4 жыл бұрын

Mispronunciation of Peiping

@bluesofmorderer7696

4 жыл бұрын

It's Beiping, one of the many names of Beijing en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Beijing

@MeiinUK

4 жыл бұрын

@Morel Lefèvre : Thanks ! I never knew that....

@changjianguo5560

3 жыл бұрын

Beijing(北京) was called Piping（北平）too.

刚出狼穴又入虎口，真可谓是多灾多难啊

I support your comment to the 1000th degree.

哎哟

すごすぎる

Thank God, No people say free Tibet, free Xinjiang in this video.

@madden8021

4 жыл бұрын

Or free Hong Kong and Taiwan is the official China.

@DeclinedMercy

4 жыл бұрын

Tibet was functionally independent at this time

@coolspace2786

2 жыл бұрын

@@DeclinedMercy aka functionally a scam lip service

Now Peking is a great metropolis. On the basis of such poor, undeveloped and constant wars, great changes have taken place in less than one hundred years

I like the smiling face of the barbar.

哎哟😄

@eddielung31 Why should it be negative? China wasn't communist before 1949 . . .

@mr.cebuano2843

4 жыл бұрын

Because the Roller are not (han) chinese

@DrJones20

3 жыл бұрын

@@mr.cebuano2843 Roller?

@mr.cebuano2843

3 жыл бұрын

@@DrJones20 ruler

I wish China kept building traditional buildings rather than modern boring buildings! Us tourists are really fascinated by these architectures and pagodas

Highlight for me was seeing those women with the bound feet hobbling along. While more difficult to visit, I guess China was more easy to visit in the 1930s before it was closed off in 1949 by the Communist takeover.

Actually, the narrator wanted to say " Beiping" ,the Chinese pronunciation? Instead he said 'Pipe ping'. He could have just said Peking .That will do.That's why a lot of Chinese used Christian name for eg Tom Chan or Simon Li etc.For the convenience of most foreigners who doesn't know how to pronounce in Mandarin.

@barrelrolldog

5 жыл бұрын

actually he was saying it was hot, piping hot is an english expression. so he said its piping. also he may have been commenting on the pipes that were everywhere at the time.

@geogsf179

4 жыл бұрын

What a typical dumbass from HK

@iceomistar4302

Жыл бұрын

Peiping was the old Postal Romanisation spelling of Beiping. Postal Romanisation and Wade Giles was based on the dialect of old Luoyang which up till 1850 was the official Sociolect of the upper classes.

Shame that most of these monuments were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution

5:03 Fck I wanted to see the final haircut

やば あっという間に近代化してるやん しかとデカい建物

It's not "Piping", but "BeiPing"(北平)，another name of Peking（北京）city. it should be pronounced like “bay-ping”....westerners often pronounce wrong Mandarin.

I REALLY WANT KMT CAN COME BACK !!!

Lol the guy at 1:42! Stealing spotling was already existant in China 1930 xD

开场白的中国地图版图还是很大的

@user-mx8gq8yz7m

4 жыл бұрын

可惜都被蚕食侵略了，周边国家都或多或少侵占了一部分中国领土

2020 anyone

2019 anyone?

@sanpoloke6126

4 жыл бұрын

me

เป็นประเทศที่ประชาชนต้องประสบกับชะตากรรมและมากด้วยเรื่องราวที่สุด...

Piping : Before Downfall TGO

China's territory was so vast back then.

Is anyone else surprised that the percentage of Chinese within the total of humans on the planet has not changed? Still about one fifth. I thought today a higher percentage of humans would be Chinese. Perhaps the Indian subcontinent's rise in population accounts for that?

@MeiinUK

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry, going from 700 million to 1.4 BILLION under 200 years is a GOOD thing ? I do not think so.

They don't know that they're about to die many years later, do they? nguyenkhan202 3 months ago --Nor does anyone else!

China is one of the most interesting nation in the world.

and beijing now ？ i think battle more new york

The Hui Chinese were the Citizen China

"Pi Ping" makes my skin crawl. The correct pronunciation in Mandarin is "Bay Jeeng" (phonetic), written as "Beijing" in Pinyin, the official Romanization system of the Peoples Republic of China.

@tosche774

3 жыл бұрын

Yes but the correct pronunciation in English is "Pi Ping". The Mandarin pronunciaton doesn´t matter as the commentator was speaking English. So in this case the English pronuciation has to be choosen.

@rickyzhang995

3 жыл бұрын

Beijing was known as Beiping at the time of the video

@billanderson4619

3 жыл бұрын

@@rickyzhang995 You are correct. That occurred to me after I posted my comment. "Northern Peace,"

@MeiinUK

3 жыл бұрын

@@billanderson4619 : Everything in Chinese is more or less poetic, so when translated into English, it should be more descriptively done, "Peace of the North".

峰峦如聚， 波涛如怒， 山河表里潼关路。 望西都，意踌躇。 伤心秦汉经行处， 宫阙万间都做了土。 兴，百姓苦；亡，百姓苦。 --------张养浩《山坡羊·潼关怀古》

@rushius Oh , everything you've said is true despite the fact that Chinese lack self-esteem, over.

If only China had decided to industrialize like Japan, there was so much squandered potential

@EnergyDot

4 жыл бұрын

Well China did industrialize, 100 years later than japan in the 1990s.

@angw1268

4 жыл бұрын

Well they did, just a bit late. U forgot that China was actually the #1 Gpd with India at #2 at the start in 18th century. If Europeans weren’t so greedy...

@user-mx8gq8yz7m

4 жыл бұрын

@M T Don't forget history, but don't be confused by history. Why did the Kuomintang fail, is evil over justice? If the Kuomintang had treated the people well, history would have been very different.Now Taiwan is just a frontier for the U.S. to attack China. So the U.S. supportfors Taiwan's development. Also divide the river and rule is the wisest decision.

@dkwhattouseasusername1012

Жыл бұрын

Wasn't really that possible because of the corruption and superstition and a little later also got invaded by the West and Japan

việt nam có ai xem như tui hem nhỉ 😍

Shaniwada surang

日本人なら、警察官が出て交通処理するこの時代は警察官がいない

The barber looked only 14 or 15.

Kuldhara

You discovered an ancient Chinese secret

@askjiir because in the 1930's europeans thought of themselves of the best, the creme de la creme :P the second world war took away any of that thought what the first world war did't

Four walled cities, ... “The North are Tartar cities”

@MeiinUK

3 жыл бұрын

I think he said "unchartered cities".. whatever it meant.

@davec1615

2 жыл бұрын

the "tartar city" is where the manchu ("tartar") elite of the qing regime lived.

@MeiinUK

2 жыл бұрын

@@davec1615 : By "Tartar City", does he mean the Muslim-Chinese ? The ones that helped Empress Cixi to fight the Hans ? (Sorry, my chinese history, of the entire prc region is not so clear...)

Very inaccurate commentary but i like the video if muted

Unfortunately, some still do.

Balaquila

Padmini fort

Peping, Peking, Beijing. Lol. Which is it? The north is a tartar city? That isn’t correct. They would have been Manchu, not tartar.

@dkwhattouseasusername1012

Жыл бұрын

Well to simplify and not go back too long, 北平(Peking) was the old name of 北京(Beijing) before the PRC made it it's capital in 1949(I think that's the year, don't remember)

I would Love to be surrounded by more Chinese people 💌

How they would soon suffer with horrible genocide and war, then rise dramatically from the ashes.

@WuBingWay How about you learn your own history, it's only called Beijing because of Mandarin Chinese which is only about 700 years old. The major spoken languages in the past were all Cantonese related and in these languages it sounds more like Puck King which was commonly written as Peking. You complain about others not knowing Chinese history but you don't know it either.

Jauhar kin$a[illa rajasthan knal

那时候天安门还没挂毛泽东。

@kennyholeater2494

5 жыл бұрын

You're a Wicked Godless race of people and America will crush you by any means

@liliencalvel6151

5 жыл бұрын

@@kennyholeater2494 America is not a model nation itself.

@ithinilben4672

5 жыл бұрын

when china was clean...中国干净的时代。。。

@user-nv2jo1vs8q

4 жыл бұрын

James Johnson 你想要去那个时代？呵呵，真干净！

@sanpoloke6126

4 жыл бұрын

@@ithinilben4672 奴隶时代

北平

@tibet4504 do you stand for the majority of tibetans? prove it if you can

今の中国よりこの時の中国の方が好き

@user-hb9jq7wb7l

4 ай бұрын

死了的日本人才是好日本人

@Miracle-world777

2 күн бұрын

Of course In those years before 1945 ... Japan was much more superior in term of military weapons compare to China, that's why Japan wanted to invade China Japanese has never come to mind that in thousands of years when China was much more superior than Japan, China was always be a good teacher to Japan without having the intention to invade Japan Therefore, in terms of characters and virtues Japanese is much more inferior than Chinese

The narrator is probably dead by now...

@edison27kong

4 жыл бұрын

Marcus Cheung everyone in this video is probably dead by now including the toddlers 😱

@marcuscheung5025

4 жыл бұрын

@@edison27kong Which sends chills down my spine

I would like Chinese children 🆒❤️🤗🤗🤗😁🌹🌹🌹

How the narrator deliver his script feels a bit racist

Yet to be destroyed and depopulated by Mao.

Amerfortsurang