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@zulumike7534

5 жыл бұрын

Say hi to meh please

@aguy2581

5 жыл бұрын

Hello there

@aguy2581

5 жыл бұрын

Make one on Napoleon

@exstracpace2260

5 жыл бұрын

Can you do a video on the balkan front?

@elainegallagher2014

5 жыл бұрын

Can you do the evolution of tanks?

Sun's life: Fail fail fail fail fail Succeed once Fail fail fail fail Still not dead Fail fail fail Still reputable? Fail fail suceed fail fail Ded Remembered as a hero Never give up bois

@cestalia

5 жыл бұрын

You either live as hero or die as villain

@math3000

5 жыл бұрын

See Yuan Chikai

@cycla

5 жыл бұрын

he did not fail, he moved the times forward

@cheesychipmunk8382

5 жыл бұрын

You either fail a successful person, or succeed long enough to fail anyways

@alantan9863

5 жыл бұрын

@@math3000 if Yuan is not selfish, he would be remembered as a great PM.

7:06 My great grand-uncle served as one of the Sun Yat-sen's guardsmen. On June 15th, 1922, a warlord, Chen Jiongming, and his men made an attack on Sun's mansion. Sun then, was escorted by his guardsmen to retreat from Guangzhou. The First Lady, still in her pregnancy, fear that she will only slow her husband down, requested to stay behind. My great grand-uncle and 49 of his comrades stayed behind to protect the pregnant First Lady, barricaded the mansion on the hill, fought against the warlord's men, 50 vs thousand. To this day in Guangzhou, on that hill, you can find a monument standing there, where it happened, telling this tale. I am proud of my great grand-uncle.

@ryoonting

4 жыл бұрын

Lior Goodspeed, that is very enlightening and touching even though I support CCP.

@alen132varnov8

4 жыл бұрын

@@ryoonting That's СССР thank you.

@funDAYsmiling

4 жыл бұрын

Lior Goodspeed What a truly exciting time that area of Canton and Hong Kong must’ve been at that time!

@theghostofspookwagen4715

4 жыл бұрын

@@alen132varnov8 Nah. CCCP is the Russian way of writing USSR. The CCP is the Chinese Commmunist Party.

@alen132varnov8

4 жыл бұрын

@@theghostofspookwagen4715 Oh ok I didn't know that. Sorry.

Wow mao was an assistant librarian? Huh i always knew those librarians are up to something.

@nurlindafsihotang49

5 жыл бұрын

Well, knowledge is power (scientia potentia est).

@321Nagato

4 жыл бұрын

«hey...HEY! This is library»

@kaslanakiana3927

4 жыл бұрын

Don’t mess with librarians, Mao joined rebellion cuz he’s not well paid by KMT government

@herodotus425

4 жыл бұрын

Monsters can come from anywhere

@Noam_.Menashe

3 жыл бұрын

@Gagan Singh curroption leads to revolution

Sun doesn't like killing. **creates military government**

@hagamapama

5 жыл бұрын

We occasiionally have to do things we don't like.

@johnblunt5243

5 жыл бұрын

Well what else can you really do when a lot of your country is controlled by warlords

@nickwestbrook5913

5 жыл бұрын

It’s Machiavelli man: if you want stability, you have to take it.

@benchmarking6875

5 жыл бұрын

Some people do evil things for a Nobel cause

@rageraptor7127

5 жыл бұрын

He didnt really have much of a choice

Man, Sun Yat-sen is someone who everyone should respect. Not for his ideologies or political views, but because through his whole life, he failed time and time again, but he never gave up, never. One can only respect such a will.

One thing most fascinating about Sun Yat Sen is that he is yet another Confuscian parable....except instead of loyalty to the Imperial Court, it was loyalty and dedication to the Nation and her people. There is a trend in Chinese culture of lionising great men whose ideals failed in their lifetime but succeeded after. Confuscius, Sun Zi, Zhuge Liang, Sun Yat Sen all failed miserably in their lifetimes, but the next generation studied their ideas and proved the worth of their ideals and struggles after their deaths.

@1Invinc

5 жыл бұрын

I think this is something rather unique about the Chinese. Very often, good ideas die with their progenitor if it fails in their lifetime. But the Chinese somehow always seems to give these ideas a 2nd life where it actually succeeds.

@nathanschmitz2302

5 жыл бұрын

@@1Invinc I hope his three principles actually come to china at one point.

@Madhattersinjeans

5 жыл бұрын

People inserted into parables so that their lovely ideals can still hold up, sounds like wish fullfilment and lies. Dictatorships like pretending they came from great people to justify their actions as "For the greater good". The cult of personality. This guy pitched China into a series of civil wars that only ended when he built up the military with foreign money/training and weapons under another generals control. He sold his ideals when it suited him and courted nationalists and murderers when it was convenient. Seems questionable to raise this person on a pedestal.

@DolphusRaymond

5 жыл бұрын

That's a fascinating comparison you made.

@DolphusRaymond

5 жыл бұрын

@@Madhattersinjeans This guy dedicated his life for China despite multiple failures over decades...he was almost killed by the imperial court for this, in a time of extreme chaos and wrote principles for the Chinese people to follow after his death, talk about dedication. And it seems you tried to blame him for civil war...when he was one of the few to help china during those times. I think you're full of shit.

Sun Yet Sen’s last word: Peace, Struggle, save China. Traditional: 和平奮鬥救中國 Simplified: 和平奋斗救中国

Twice a year in Tiannanmen Square, the portrait of Mao gets replaced by the portrait of Sun Yat Sen

@pierrecurie

5 жыл бұрын

is this actually true?

@jw1731

5 жыл бұрын

pierrecurie if that were true I’d have known about it considering I used to live in Beijing. What he’s probably referring to is once a year, Sun Yat sen’s portrait is displayed on the square in commemoration, facing Mao’s portrait on the Tiananmen rostrum (not square), which is the front gate of the forbidden city. Mao’s portrait is on the *rostrum* and has never been replaced; as for the *square* Mao’s portrait has never been displayed there.

@GoogleGebruiker

5 жыл бұрын

As it should be.

@themarc6500

5 жыл бұрын

@@pierrecurie I think cause the PRC actually honors Sun as "The Forerunner of the democratic Revolution"

@xlyoutube

5 жыл бұрын

Not exactly. Mao's portrait stays on Tiananmen (The actual gate). Sun's 6.5m tall portrait is put up twice a year in May and in October in Tiananmen Square, south of the gate, facing Mao's portrait. It would've been nice if the replacement is true though. I'd like to see that. In fact I'd like to see no one's portrait on that gate.

Yuan Shikai: Emperor on 12 December 1915 / Died on 6 June 1916 everyone hated this guy; even God apparently.

@alany3805

5 жыл бұрын

Yuan was really an okay guy tbh. He stablized the Chinese currency, which was minted until 1953 (yes, even by Mao after he won the civil war). He also introduced a 4-year compulsory education system for all, including girls, first of such in Chinese history. The tragedy of China at the time was that every powerful man was born out of the old feudal system, and dreamed of being emperor. Except for Sun Yat-sen.

@alberum8442

5 жыл бұрын

This is the Internet. Someone is just going to say this guy was the best political mind of his time and better than everyone else. There are some people these days that really like to support lost causes, apparently.

@itstriplem2069

5 жыл бұрын

lol

@alantan9863

5 жыл бұрын

He's not destined to wear that crown. But instead, a mere imitator to Zhuge Liang.

@user-sx1mm1sl6u

5 жыл бұрын

@@alberum8442 well , he made a good case for him and you didn't disprove that .

"OH YEAH! THINGS ARE FINALLY LOOKING UP FOR SUN YAT-SEN!" *Sun Yat-Sen Dies*

Chaing Kai-Shek sounds like a dangerous merciless man I hope he doesn't gain any political power at--- oh wait... :| well maybe this Mao guy will be better...

@zhaohuideng8836

5 жыл бұрын

Ironically Chiang's purge of communists killed many more nationalists than communists because he didn't want to miss one communist. Better dead than red, I suppose.

@pmsilent

5 жыл бұрын

2 words. Cultural Revolution

@advictoriamsshitposts8689

5 жыл бұрын

@@zhaohuideng8836 The Chinese Liberty Prime.

@BothHands1

5 жыл бұрын

Pika Zilla Yeahhhhhh About that whole Mao thing...

@martytu20

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, turned out being a good general doesn’t make you a good administrator for a state.

Sun’s story is really tragic when you think about it. He had a grand dream for China, but it fell apart due to corrupt people who tried to use it to gain power for themselves. This is why I cried at the end of Jurassic Park, because Hammond’s dream never came true.

@vilwind3522

5 жыл бұрын

Judge a person by his actions not his words... at the end he left the country he "cared for" in a state of endless war and devastation weaker than it was when he was born ... He achieved every thing he wanted.

@mastertoad2

5 жыл бұрын

Maggie Hydeck Spoiler alert please

@ViscountNo7

5 жыл бұрын

Dr Sun's Dream comes true, it only comes late for a century.

@syncmonism

5 жыл бұрын

Jurassic Park? Really? That's your analogy?

@mrreyes5004

4 жыл бұрын

@@syncmonism It's a fitting one. Both had a fair dream for people, but that dream was twisted and ultimately torn apart by greedy men who didn't care for who or what they hurt.

Nice touch with Tsingtao Beer with the German flag. Few people seem to realise it started off as a German brewery in Shandong.

@angusyang5917

5 жыл бұрын

Is the German flag correct for the time?

@kongkong1364

5 жыл бұрын

many people know. because the natural reaction to "china beer" is "what? really? how?" that usually is followed by the answer "it's started by the germans in the german colony", and "ok, that makes sense"

@asoongUSMC

4 жыл бұрын

Good beer too

@walli6388

2 жыл бұрын

@@angusyang5917 No.

How’d I never heard of this dude who literally made China what it is today. Thank you my school education.

@artofthepossible7329

5 жыл бұрын

Did your school teach you anything about China at all?

@nathanwurtz268

5 жыл бұрын

Isaac Matthews thinking back, only ancient China. Not the last 500 years or so China. Learned most of that on my own

@USSAnimeNCC-

5 жыл бұрын

America right

@youtubec8563

5 жыл бұрын

Nathan Wurtz Sun was an important figure. I strongly suggest you to read more about Mao Zedong and Chiang Kaishiek too. Their legacies have an even bigger impact on today’s China :) The education in North America and Europe are quite Eurocentric (which makes sense considering it’s the west) so maybe this is why you don’t get to learn about modern Chinese history in school

@alany3805

5 жыл бұрын

When doing History 12 (modern world history) in Canada, spent a whole class on Prague Spring, yet China was barely mentioned for anything. People know frustratingly little about China.

Alas, what a shame that you missed Dr. Sun's final teaching which inspires generations of Chinese and we still remember it today: The work of revolution is yet to be finished. Our comrades shall strive on for its consummation. 革命尚未成功，同志仍需努力。 And the Chinese civil war did not last for 20 years. Communists and nationalists fought between 1927 and 1937 before they reached an agreement to cease fire (at least openly) and deal with Japanese invaders first. The civil war started again in 1945 and ended in 1950 with the nationalist government escaped to Taiwan island. So it is 15 years of civil war in total. And it is also worth mentioning that Dr. Sun's wife Soong Ching-ling still played a big role in Chinese politics after Sun passed away. She contributed to form the united front of Chinese against Japanese invasion, and devoted a lot for social charity, children welfare and women rights. She became the vice president of the People's Republic of China later and remained this country's only honorary president until today.

@theresahall8206

5 жыл бұрын

Joan of Arc. I love tough girl stories. Boys sometimes think girls can't kick butt as good as boys and shouldn't be soliders. I love every story that prove that isn't true girls can kick butt.

@youtubec8563

5 жыл бұрын

About the 革命尚未成功，同志仍需努力. It was the phrase on the banners above his coffin in his funeral. I read from a site that it wasn’t his own words but an interpretation of his life accomplishments and dreams for future China.

@metroman000

5 жыл бұрын

Sureee

@youtubec8563

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Theresa Hall! The Song family will definitely interest you then :) The sister of Song Qingling, Song Meiling married Chiang Kaishiek, and she was equally involved in politics and reform moments.

@alany3805

5 жыл бұрын

Chinses civil war has not concluded yet. It will not conclude until China is fully unified. 革命尚未成功，同志仍需努力

Jesus, Sun could never catch a break ever could he?

That house Sun left to his wife is across from my apartment in Shanghai. The house is still there and is made into a tourist sight. I loved the details in the house because you could see the kind of person Sun was. The interior decoration was modest and efficient, not too flashy but cosy. I could tell how much working Sun did at home every day; the man even had a typewriter in the bathroom next to his tub, so he was even writing while taking a bath, which I respect a lot. And please do one season about the Chinese cultural revolution, the 10 years purge of Chinese culture, history and value. It really changed the direction of Chinese civilization. Would be a great season to watch.

Yuan is gone *Crab rave plays*

@yiayyiay1352

5 жыл бұрын

SUPA COMMUNISM

@shuliu4804

4 жыл бұрын

Yes

sun yat sen: i want china to have 100,000 miles of railroad connections all provinces, damn the yangzte river for hydro electric power, two new forts china today: i got you bro

@natalkumar6132

3 жыл бұрын

Feels sad when you realize , he would have been proud and sad at the same time about where China has reached .

@LadyZeldaia

2 жыл бұрын

sad its mostly made by slaves

@MemekingJag

Жыл бұрын

Too bad they missed out on his actual principles.

I grew up in Guangzhou and this series made me so proud. Our top university is named after Sun Yat-sen; our largest hospitals were named after him; and we have a grand memorial hall dedicated to him. The old Military Academy he founded in Guangzhou felt like a holy site every time I visited. He was truly a great man.

- 121.000 kilometres of rail - Three Gorges Dam in Yangtze - Tianjin, Shanghai, and Shenzhen ports are also thriving

@TheOtakuPrince

5 жыл бұрын

The CCP made all of Sun Yat Sen's dreams a reality.

@yogi9631

4 жыл бұрын

@Gagan Singh China is too large & too diverse to ever become a republic....... In so called democracy, the greed of man will always generate a cycle of revolution of the poor people! !!!!

@jeffreyzheng8875

3 жыл бұрын

Meanwhile american president's projects get cancelled by the next elect

@krim7

3 жыл бұрын

@@jeffreyzheng8875 America already has enough dams and ports. Many of the big infrastructure projects left are divisive, like the Keystone XL Pipeline.

@user-sl4kz8kt2d

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheOtakuPrince not all

So he is loved in both Chinas then?

@xxAnaconta

5 жыл бұрын

"two Chinas" the PRC wants to know your location

@darthnox9991

5 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😁

@Tom-eq7eh

5 жыл бұрын

He is loved in the same way Washington was loved in the Union and Confederacy. They love the figure and what they say he standed for but neither loves all of their actions. It's a weird case of hero worshipping.

@empiur

5 жыл бұрын

only one china and that's the ROC xd

@evoluxman9935

5 жыл бұрын

@@Tom-eq7eh best way of saying it i've ever seen. Good comparison!

As a Chinese guy living outside of the mainland, it is both enlightening and sad the amount of strife my mother land has suffered through just over a 100 years ago, and how some aspects of this still bleed over to chinese politics to this day

@jinjunliu2401

5 жыл бұрын

also painful to see how annoying the west has been in China (although most was also the fault of the emperors)

@danaphanous

5 жыл бұрын

Me too. While I have no Chinese heritage, I've always loved Chinese history, and hope she can have long-lasting peace and prosperity now. Colonialism did no favors to the world and I hope we've seen the last of those abuses.

@PrograError

5 жыл бұрын

@@danaphanous except we are seeing another kind of colonialism, this time by china... with it's one belt one road...

@hauntedaccount8713

5 жыл бұрын

@@PrograError also Chinese has made ughur and tibetan 4th class citizens in their own country.

@PrograError

5 жыл бұрын

@@hauntedaccount8713 and also the hong kongers with them being suppressed by the central govt

If Yuan was more selfless and Sun was made president that country would have turned out so incredibly much better

@mjbull5156

5 жыл бұрын

"If"

@math3000

5 жыл бұрын

One man can only sigh.

@carbonado2432

2 жыл бұрын

the problem is he is dealing with chinese, somone will always betray you.

@Asce123

2 жыл бұрын

@@kaesong6080sadly Chiang is hardly better than the communists, he was a warlord himself, and china would likely to become the same authoritarian, nationalist state... so different path, same ending, I guess

@landon8214

Жыл бұрын

@Carbonado Chinese people aren't all backstabbers!

Fun fact: there's even a university named after him, the Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou

@frenchfrete

5 жыл бұрын

There's another one in Republic of China too : National Sun Yat-sen University in Kaohsiung

@codyshi4743

5 жыл бұрын

Which still prove the point that Sun Yet Sen is favor by both the communist and the nationalist.

We Chinese overseas respect Dr.Sun Yat Sen, founders of Republic of China. Today many chinese still have his picture hanging somewhere in their houses. We call him Father of China. I hope China mainland will become democratic as soon as possible. 革命尚未成功，同志仍需努力。 The revolution has not yet finished, Work hard comrades!

@jinjunliu2401

5 жыл бұрын

sadly the non mainland China parts will become non democratic soon :d although it will change after that Long divided must unite, long united must divide!

@Mario123007

5 жыл бұрын

Also in Taiwan too duh, because while some Taiwan Independent freak will disagree but Taiwan is still a part of Republic of China. On global the consensus is that Taiwan is a part of China, but which China is it is up to China and Taiwan.

@GWT1m0

5 жыл бұрын

China will unify 3 Principles of the people will prevail !

@whitehorizon2225

5 жыл бұрын

Well said! Remember Sun Yat Sen! Democracy for China!

@codyshi4743

5 жыл бұрын

Same here I wish the Nationalist and Communist can just unify as a Democratic two-party state like the USA government. I’m still mad that Yuan Shika took power and that Chang Kai Shek started the Chinese Civil War by killing off the Communist representative.

Sun Yat-Sen: "I don't agree with killing..." Chiang Kai Shek: "You must be new here..." Edit: It was funny to see Zoe scared of something, just at the beginning of the video. You know it will be something really nasty...

@lifesimulator3964

5 жыл бұрын

Chiang: First time?

@marloyorkrodriguez9975

5 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure sovietwomble would disagree on that

An excellent end to an amazing series. Few in Chinese History have garnered so much respect, admiration, and amiability. Hopefully one day Sun’s ideals can once again be the main force in all of China 🇹🇼 .

@codyshi4743

5 жыл бұрын

Two Party China( KMT and CPC), I so wish that happen one day.

Press F to pay respects? =/

@IrishMappermapsmore

5 жыл бұрын

F

@sinthoras1917

5 жыл бұрын

F to the forerunner of the democratic revolution

@harleehollibaugh

5 жыл бұрын

F

@grimmech4268

5 жыл бұрын

F

@MaxHDAvenger

5 жыл бұрын

F

Sun Yet Sen kind of reminded me of Simon Bolivar. Speaking of the Nationalist, after Sun died there was a power struggle in the KMT party, a man name Wang Jing Wei was supposed to be the leader of the Nationalist party but didn't happen since Chang Kei Shek controls the millitary. Later during the 2nd Sino Japanese war or WW2 Wang Jing Wei sided with Japan and establish an nationalist puppet state.

@kingandcountry1242

5 жыл бұрын

Cody Shi Same way Yuan Shikai took power. He had the biggest military in China and could make both the imperial court and the Revolutionary forces play his games.

@codyshi4743

4 жыл бұрын

God I hate Yuan Shika, he and his stupid conservatives idea, I can’t believe he managed to become president.

It's not the republic he dreamed of, but it is nice to know that both sides who fought in his aftermath honored Sun Yat-sen.

Why am I tearing up? That man worked so and never to see the fruits of all his years of labor.

"The goal of the revolution is to achieve the people's rights, but during the course of the revolution, we must stress military power - and the two are mutually contradictory." - Sun Yat-sen That being said, westerners who uphold him as what China could have being always forget this quote from him: "An individual should not have too much freedom. A nation should have absolute freedom."

wow. i think i'll take two things from this series: - How incredibly rich chinese culture and history is.. can you imagine, this happened in the less than half a century!! -stubborness and passion. Sun Yat-sen would just NOT quit. For him, nothing mattered besides the wish for reform in his own country. cuedoes and can't wait for the lies episode!

The currency issued by Yuan were nicknamed the 袁大頭 (yuan2 da4 tou2, "big head Yuan"), not only because there is a portrait of Yuan on the obverse side, but also because people were making fun of the giant head/ego he had. The first year of his regime was to be called 宏憲元年 (hong2 xian4 yuan1 nian2, "Inaugural year of glorious Constitution."). What a year it turned out to be.

"There was a rift between the nationalist and the communists" Chiang: I could repair and make us one again, or.... I could purge everyone on their side a have all the power! What could possibly go wrong?! 20 years later: Everything went wrong.

@codyshi4743

5 жыл бұрын

Chiang’s stupid idea ever, purging the communist.

0:45 "China belonged to the warlords now" Just like the last 15 times this has happened. Seriously, China has broken down into warlords operating everything so many times is ludicrous.

@stevenbaksh5545

11 ай бұрын

It's over a 3000 year period

This video is surprisingly accurate about the Chinese history in that period. I am a Chinese, and I do not have to complain about any fact in this video. The cartoons are of course very funny and accurate too! Two thumbs up!

Hi Extra Credits, if you can see this, I have a suggestion: 1. Doing a series on the Three Kingdoms period of China 2. The Fall Of Singapore 3. The Malayan Federation Strife in the 1960s 4. A full episode / series on the Chinese Pantheon (Extra Mythology) 5. The Philosophy Of George Lucas (Extra Sci-fi) 6. A complete overview and rundown of the world of JR Tolkien’s Lord Of The Rings (Extra Sci-fi) ~ Extra Credits Superfan Thanks!

Such perseverance. I can't imagine what it must've been like to have setback after setback like that. To a point where 20 years of your life pass you by and little changes. The perseverance and self motivation and dedication to one's country and beliefs is awe inspiring

5:00 Sun's infrastructure plan finally turns into reality after nearly a century.

AlternateHistoryHub sent me here, and I am so glad he did. This is really detailed, well done, and easy to watch. I have watched all parts back to back even though I don't even have the time. Thank you for all the work you put into this!

Probably the most confusing revolution. I wrote about it in school and it was a bit hard to fully understand even though I knew some stuff about the revolution. BTW I'm Chinese

Thank you for the effort you put into this. I never stop learning about new historical moments!

6:04 what does this libarian have to do with anything

@noodles1291

5 жыл бұрын

roy nettle are you joking?

@roynettle6864

5 жыл бұрын

@@noodles1291 Yes i thought that was obvious. who doesn't know china's first communist dictator

@theory8sf

5 жыл бұрын

Lol! Good one!

I love this particular series because of the history, the music, and the vibe it gives off. It's just perfect

This series was 100% my favourite. The drawings and narrations are perfect!

I'm so glad this channel exists. In 2 months, I've learned so, so much about how our world came to be that I never did in over a decade of sitting in classrooms

10:50 So in other words, both Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong had respect for Sun Yat-sen, yet if he had known what they would do, he probably would have hated them.

Yes! Finally a part 5. I've been waiting for this one

This was so inspiring. Thank you for bringing this out.

This series has been one of my favourites. I really liked it, here in the west we dont really tend to talk a lot about important figures from around the world. I'd love if you'd keep going with the whole history of 20th century China, seems super interesting. Btw that ending to the video was great, wish i had a link to the music. (Nvm it was in the description)

Love your history videos

Thank you for the programme. It's the most interesting way to tell the Chinese history that I've ever seen. Well done!!

thank you, i've watched all the episodes.. loved them

To think, if Sun had lived another decade he might have cemented a china that more firmly rebuffed the Japanese Invasion and became a flowering democracy in the aftermath of the war, with the Koumintung and the Communist party being the two central political parties. Due to his premature demise we have a supressive, virtual autocracy on the mainland, and a partially recognised, scarred and somewhat jingoist democracy on the Island to it's South East. But then, Sun was tragically a man forever out of time.

@rayray6490

5 жыл бұрын

I think you're giving Sun a little too much credit. He was no doubt a great influence but the one successful revolt happened without him. And there were proposed dealings between Sun and Japanese that would've granted them concessions in return for their support, not unlike Yuan's own dealings. He was no doubt desperate at the time and probably tried to play all sides but he never really had his own side until near the end of his life when he re-establishes KMT in Guangzhou and the Whampao academy to train his own legit army. Chiang Kai-shek put his dreams to realization (til Japan happened)

@MrAnonymousRandom

5 жыл бұрын

China still wouldn't stand a chance. China would need at least a few decades of peace and modernization before it can take on Japan.

@10willdude

5 жыл бұрын

@@rayray6490 Yeah. I'm probably looking back on Sun's life with the same rose tinted spectacles as the Chinese regimes do nowadays. Though I do think there is a chance he would have held on to the democratic principles that chiang abandoned so quickly, and didn't return in Taiwan for some decades.

@broti705

5 жыл бұрын

@@rayray6490 I think the major hope here is that Sun would've been able to prevent the CCT-Kuomintang split, which Chiang most obviously did not

@megadeathx

5 жыл бұрын

Imagine if the Federalists and the Whigs had taken arms against each other and the Governors of the several United States declared themselves immune to term limits. That's pretty much what happened to China. Fortunately for the former British colonials, they all studied the same philosophers and were on board with the same economic theories, or they were entirely ignorant and simply went back to farming. So while they strongly disagreed about several details, they never felt so insulted as to take up arms.

This was an amazing piece of history about a man who lived his heroic ideals, started to become a villian in pursuit of those ideals, and died leaving tragedy behind.

Holy crap... Thank you for this series. I'll definitely be digging deeper into his life.

Thank you for your series on Sun Yat-sen. I like how you don't pull punches on any of the sides in your history lessons. Comes down to it no government is perfect we try and do the best we can and even when we vote try and put the best person for the job in office. I am so glad I found you channel.

That last bit on Sun's death and legacy legit had me welling up.

Make a video about the korean war! Pls

@verbfrombonsai8852

5 жыл бұрын

Then Vietnam? Vietnam has a rich plot in terms of politics and military strategy and tactics. A must study

@verbfrombonsai8852

5 жыл бұрын

We need patreon to suggest though

This channel makes such great content. Watching these videos is one of my favorite Saturday routines.

I've never been a big fan of history but you make it fun and I'm truly invested in these stories.

Enjoyed this series very much. I have a photograph of myself beside a statue of Sun Yet San in Melbourne's 'China Town'.

I loved the series and would love to see a continuation of it. One focusing on Mao would be very nice to see!

Extra history is a Really awesome series it has rekindled my passion for the subject. Great content and narration and work. Plz keep doing this

Watching your videos is like a cliffhanger. Top notch presentation.

This IS AMAZING!!!!

“China belongs to the warlords, now.” Hey, I’ve seen this one! It’s a classic!

@ATemplarIGuess

3 жыл бұрын

The classic or the remake?

@nooneinparticular5256

3 жыл бұрын

My personal favorite is the 6th remake. Of the 7th sequel.

great series on part of history i knew little of, thank you

5:25 Tsingtao...so much detail. Amazing video! (as always)

0:29 sun yat-sen confirmed for smash?

extra credits could you tell the story of Pedro II from Brazil? There are many Brazilian fans of you.

@danilooliveira6580

5 жыл бұрын

Pedro II history is not really that interesting. he was a amazing man, father of national science and loved the country, but he didn't really accomplish anything notable besides keep the country working and not screwing everything up. in the end he didn't even wanted to be a emperor and pretty much let the revolutionary movement finally end monarchy.

@risannd

5 жыл бұрын

Or how about Brazillian Empire as a whole

@maximilienderobespierre7714

5 жыл бұрын

@@risannd would be interesting, we have several interesting things like the Paraguayan war, when we overturned an Uruguayan dictatorship in the Uruguayan civil war, we also have the Christian question. only a correction was the rule of Brazil and not the Brazilian empire

@maximilienderobespierre7714

5 жыл бұрын

@@silentfilms7459 this would not be a problem for me

Your illustrations/cartoons really help me understand the history. I've never heard of this before so it helps me understand it and keep track :)

Sun is the ultimate representation of never give up.

One of the thing that I, as a Chinese, find really interesting yet under-studied is the sino-Japanese relationship in the past three centuries. Since late Ming dynasty when contact between the two became frequent, there are several drastic swings in this bilateral relations. First China saw Japan as pirate state, then rival, then subject of inspiration, then enemies, allies, enemies, allies, etc. Japan unilaterally launched some of the nastiest campaigns against China, yet in some ironic way helped launch China into the modern era. Theses can be reflected by many Chinese phases imported into Japanese, transformed then re-imported back to Chinese.

Alternate history: sun Yat-sen is president, Yuan doesn't take over

@codyshi4743

5 жыл бұрын

Also if Chang Kai Shek haven’t created the stupid purge.

Thanks, enjoyed this series

Good series ! Learned a lot.👍

I know this is Sun's story. But, PLEASE continue into the revolution and WWII, and the exiled government to Taiwan!

@jinjunliu2401

5 жыл бұрын

or do a whole history on China, which I'd love to see

@jinjunliu2401

5 жыл бұрын

1000 episodes series

@Mario123007

5 жыл бұрын

Call in ROC government being "exiled" to Taiwan is debatable dude... Because after WWII and the Sino-Japanese Contract, Taiwan is confirmed as China's, but I understand the contract was vague and there are loopholes.

@htrland

5 жыл бұрын

That would be great. However, these periods are so complex and chaotic, with so much in dispute and so much controversy. I don't know if it would be possible to do them in the short term.

@codyshi4743

5 жыл бұрын

Do you know why the Nationalist was in exile in Taiwan, because Chang Kai Shek is conservative which cause him to lose support from the Chinese peasants and the Imperial Japanese Empire screw everything.

0:30 YUAN ---------------- IS GONE! *Crab rave playing in the background*

why did i get chills at the end ahhh

This was my favourite series

One of the few person I respected in history.

The way the ruthless Chiang Kai-shek got power after the death of Sun Yat-sen and ordered purge of his former party allies really reminds me of Stalin's actions after Lenin's death

@dominicc1426

2 жыл бұрын

Weird comparison because Chiang hated Stalin and Lenin. Also Lenin was equally as viscous to his enemies same as Stalin.

Nice idea to put a picture of him. Thanks for the series 🙏

this was such a good series!

Watching this series has only mad me sad about what could've been :( Imagine how much better the world would be with a democratic China

@vargrhelsing8042

5 жыл бұрын

yeah right, like the game of political power ever give a shit about ideologies. There will still be conflict nonetheless, for everyone is paranoid and everyone wanted more power.

@creatoruser736

5 жыл бұрын

@@vargrhelsing8042 Well at least a few million less people would have died under a Nationalist China.

@finnj.1786

5 жыл бұрын

For one, I would have less social studies homework to do right now!

@Mical2001

5 жыл бұрын

@@vargrhelsing8042 There's more to life than politics, dude. For one, there would've been a lot less loss of life if authoritarianism hadn't taken over China.

@Argacyan

5 жыл бұрын

Nationalist China on Taiwan waged decades of mass murder on political opposition, intellectuals and people not toading the line. To call them less murderous or less authoritarian is an insult to every victim of theirs and an insult to plenty more tbf

Wow.... China had a rough history. Achievement unlocked: Respect to China Restored

@jjc5475

5 жыл бұрын

+5 credit, you can ride the train again.

@calfdeck4820

5 жыл бұрын

@@jjc5475 LMFAO

@syncmonism

5 жыл бұрын

Okay, but if you go back a bit Further, you have a history of China being one of the most advanced parts of the world for thousands of years (though it certainly wasn't always just one united empire or nation, often consisting of a few different and powerful dynasties, along with a few smaller ones). A lot of important human advancements emerged there before anywhere else, or at least emerged there independently. For many long periods of human history, it was the most advanced centre of human civilization, largely due to it simply having a geography well suited to supporting large scale agriculture and very large human populations.

@ShadowWolfRtL

4 жыл бұрын

@@jjc5475 xD that was perfect lmao

Great series!

Great series

History of the Kievan Rus’?

@Geraduss

5 жыл бұрын

Yes that would be awesome.

May Sun Yat-san rest in peace

Awesome series!

Great series 👍👍👍

KMT and the CPC must stand together. Regardless of what party we are, or where we are from, we are all Chinese! For Sun Yet Sen!!!

He fought for a united China all his life, Mao's unification and policies that followed were far from what Sun envisioned but it's probably still better than a fractured China ruled by provincial warlords.

@qiang2884

5 жыл бұрын

No.

@capybaraRed

5 жыл бұрын

A million times better.

@IgnisDomini97

5 жыл бұрын

Eh, not THAT far. Sun Yat-Sen's widow did end up joining Mao's communist party and becoming the first Vice President of the PRC, after all.

@windywendi

5 жыл бұрын

Your comment is the most refreshing one I've ever seen.

@Madhattersinjeans

5 жыл бұрын

He fought for whatever would unite china and sold his ideals to foreign powers and let the country rot under military dictatorships. His meddling might have actually weakened the country for the Communists to take over and install a dictatorship.

New episode. Nice.

Great series👍