Time Stamps: 00:00 Hair Salon in China 01:00 Intro 01:12 Our Last Video 01:38 Our Expectations 02:44 Walk Old Shanghai with Kids 05:00 Street Food China 09:37 Grumpy Cat 09:46 Cotton Candy Art 10:47 Green Space Gucheng Park 11:30 Tai Chi 12:20 Shiliupu Marina Walk 12:36 Shanghai's Modern Skyline 13:34 Empty Road, Sealed Buildings 13:57 Old Shanghai Street Impressions 14:51 Summary China so far 15:40 Spoiler for next vlog on China
@@our-travel-journal ein wieder sehr familiär und auch politisch weise ,sauber geschnittenes Video mit vielen Szenen zum staunen und schmunzeln und Nachdenken, herrlich die tollen Infos und Erinnerungen
Great sharing! Enjoy the different perspective of family travelling in China. Maybe getting more of your kids on their first experiences would be a great idea. Besides, getting the kids to interact with the locals might be a good learning for them too. Cheers from Malaysia!
Frankly, the chinese don't care about the negative comments from the west. They are having great lives, low crimate rate, low homeless rate, and affordable products. China is an ancient civiliation of over 5,000 years. A lot for us to learn from.
The views of Westerners have nothing to do with us, let alone engage in meaningless debates. You can never wake up someone who pretends to be asleep. Instead of wasting time on a fruitless argument, I'd rather spend more time with my parents and children
This is true. Chinese consider themselves more civilized than all the rest; Chinese emperors do not look at any others for advanced goods: China does not need any other ones' products. Of cause, they Chinese lost everything when the British came with guns.
I reckon kids, who start learning to embrace and tolerate different cultures, are more likely to succeed in later life. The three beautiful kids are so lucky. They have very wise parents.
Chinese people always welcome you, hope you have a good time in China~If you have German passports,you will have 15 days visa-free time, if it expires, please go to Hong Kong, and then return to Shenzhen, China, you will get a new 15 days visa-free time. Or if you go to Vientiane, Laos, and then return to Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China, you will also get a new 15-days visa-free time.Xishuangbanna to and from Vientiane, there is a daily passenger high-speed train.♥
@@our-travel-journal Of course, there are many ways to leave and return to China, renewing the 15 days visa-free time. You also can fly to Singapore or Thailand and back to China. But the two ways I mentioned may have a lower budget, and if you schedule it properly, you can return within a day.After all, you're a family of five. It will always cost a lot of money.
@@our-travel-journal yes and usually in shanghai they can get huge amount of compensation including new houses and money, people literally get a fortune by this.
The drink that your kids were having at 7.52 minutes is bayberry or YangMei in Chinese, and not cherry/kirsch. I can read the label on the carton and am also familiar with both English and German. Hope this clarifies.
There are many cities worth visiting around Shanghai, such as Suzhou, Wuxi, Changzhou, Nanjing, Hangzhou, and Ningbo. You can take a stroll along the route, or go north to Beijing and Tianjin, south to Fuzhou, Xiamen, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou, and west to Wuhan, Changsha, Chongqing, Chengdu, and Xi'an. I hope you have a pleasant trip. In China, there are night markets worth visiting at midnight, which can be found in any city. Nightlife is very rich, especially in summer. Don't worry about safety issues, our violent crimes are very rare.
15:05 your observation about culture conservation is correct. Those people left their country and settled in foreign countries tend to keep their culture. While, their mother land culture evolving.
Looking forward to your next video from China. p.s. I've been watching numerous video of China from different visitors... and everyone brings something different into their videos - I think it's because they're personality / vibes come out. It can be two visitors to the same area but the videos will be very different. 🕊 cheers, from Canada
Interesting insight to parts of Shanghai, eg., the boarded up side streets. Not easy to go sight seeing with young children, their preferences are different to adults. I hope they are enjoying their adventure in China!
How come I was not pushed to watch this one? Thank you and enjoyed. It seems that I need to search for your videos. The kids are lovely and great learners for obviously they blend into this new environment of different culture quite well.
Is not "conservative" but wary 'cuz they knew what Westerners are like whereas those in China don't. Those in China do not know the reality in the West. 😢😢😢😢
13:30 you are right here. The buildings in this area will be torn down and modernized. The people who used to live there will be paid a huge amount of money that is enough to support theirs and their children’s whole life. (But not in form of cash. The government will give them 3 to 4 condos somewhere in the city for free. One condo is worth millions of RMB, which is nearly impossible for an ordinary people to afford only rely on salary.)
I was born in Shanghai, now living overseas, and I am deeply moved by your video. It feels different from the usual travel vlogs; I think your family trip with your children are incredibly meaningful. Hope you have a wonderful time in China.
To see history in China: 100 years go Beijing, to see 1,000 years go Xi’an, and to see 5,000 years of history go Luoyang, To see diverse ethnicities in 1 place: Yunnan, Xinjiang and usu the border provinces To see breathtaking landscapes: They are all over, but Yunnan, Sichuan, Tibet, Xinjiang provinces have the most diverse and the most numbers, from huge deserts to alpine lakes to snow mountains to tropical forests to other unique landforms To see futuristic and/or modern cities: Shenzhen, Shanghai, Chonqqing esp To see ancient water towns like Venice: Zhujiajiao, Wuzhen, Hangzhou, Suzhou, these are the more convenient ones to reach as they are many others, some more authentic, some become very touristy And the list goes on...depending what's yr interest.
Hi. I’ve just subscribed after seeing this video and your content for the first time. You have a delightful family and you’re blessing them with being raised in a positive, open minded and learning environment, hats off to you and your husband. I think your peaceful and caring personality comes through very well in your narration, so anyone who comes across your content will want to subscribe. I’m first a first generation Kiwi of Chinese descent. My parents came to New Zealand in 1940 and in response to you query about overseas Chinese (when you made your observation about the Turkish immigrants in China), I believe Chinese that emigrate have an attitude of doing so to give their family a better life. As it’s a Chinese trait to be mindful in to honouring your parents wishes, each generation has great importance placed on them to excel in being educated ( which is another Chinese value). So overseas Chinese are focused on each generation having more opportunity than the one before it. FYI. More wife and I are planning our first visit into China for 2025 and hope to spend 2-months there ( We dare not leave our dogs at the kennels any longer than that) Enjoy the rest of your visit to China and I’m very happy to have come across your content. Best wishes, Ken 😮
@@our-travel-journal yes, I see the same phenomenal in most British living abroad they would look for typical English tea, sausages, HP brown sauce & etc.. clique together, etc.
Oh, you are from Hong Kong 👏🏻, we heard it’s also a great city to visit 🙌 And you are right, we will most likely come back to China much more often because there are so many places to explore and people are always welcoming ❤
The area where the shops were closed, heard they are going to redevelop the area with modern new infrastructures. Anyway hope you guys are having great fun in China. Wish you well and take care. Cheers!
In Huangpu district a lot of the old communities have no sewer system and most had no shower facilities either. So most are now due for redevelopment over the next few years. Depending on the heritage value or difficulty in renovating depends on whether they are demolished or not.
I would like to recommend you these places if you are interested in seeing the history or arts of Shanghai: - Shanghai Historical Museum - Minhang Museum - China Art Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai (the one on Huayuangang Road) Shanghai Museum is also very nice but it is very hard to reserve these days.
wow one big pig cotton candy wasn't enough to share, sugar high 😅 shanghai is a nice intro to first time china travelers since it's modern and cosmopolitan, but imo it doesn't have the charm of many other places in china. maybe not by your standards, but shanghai is probably the most expensive city in china as well so your euros would go a lot further in other places. if you get a chance to go back, try some of the lesser known cities, or check out natural scenic areas.
One reason why the western governments are so negative about the Chinese government is because the "Chinese model" of governing needs a lot of meticulous planning and tenacious efforts for efficient implementation of the plans. This will totally expose the shortcomings of the western politicians who are only good at talking big.
Never mind the haters, irrespective of whatever sytem of government you have, its the outcome which counts ... and at least 90 percent of the chinese people love their government ❤
15:00 Holy, that's quite on point. My parents inmigrated in the 80s to Spain, and at this moment you can guess we have a little "chinatown" even in Madrid. Most of the people migrated in search of having a better quality of life and wages, but nobody expected China to grow as fast in the last 40 years. A lot of people that came were people with low education that devoted their whole life just to work and earn money (like my parents), so the next generation (people like me) can get a way out of this hellish king of a working life-condition that you can usually see in chinese shops in Europe for example. They're very conservative in general (even If they still have contact and know all about what's going on in China), and you can notice that there's a very accentuated eagerness to "preserve the tradition" so to say, for their kids that grow in a totally different enviroment. First generation inmigration are quite closed-in-timid, but talk to their childrens, they're very integrated into the western societies and they're open to talk with any goodwilled person.
There is nothing wrong to preserve the Chinese tradition. You can’t get rid of thousands years old Chinese tradition because that is what make you, your parents and China. Otherwise you and China are not unique and just like everyone else, that is boring 🥱 If it’s not unique and boring, no one is interested in visiting China., and no one is interested in you
I don't understand why some Chinese people such as you complaining or looking down on their Chinese tradition and on their parents for doing so. Why? Are Chinese traditions that bad? So they want to erase all deep rich Chinese history and traditions for somethings alien? What a silly thought
I don't understand why some Chinese people such as you complaining or looking down on their Chinese tradition and on their parents for doing so. Why? Are Chinese traditions that bad? What a silly thought
