Fascinating video with significantly historical values, thanks for posting it. Vignettes of lifes of ordinary people in Peking 1930s. BTW, the title showed that the film maker was Deane Dickason, who was he ?.
This needs to be viewed by 21st century Chinese teenagers. If you think your life is hard now, be grateful you weren't a teenager in 1930s China. Your future prospect was to die from war, famine or poverty.
lol i don't think they consider their life very hard in comparison to the past. considering that whole business of china being the second super power in the world and whatnot.
That's not how humans work..... their life sucked, but it's accepted reality to them. If it were the other way around... if you plucked one of them from the video and dropped them in the center of Beijing today, their reality will be shattered and they will not be as grateful as you think.
Seeing that cigarette recycling boy broke my heart, I did the same trade growing dirt poor in Mexico City. I hope that like me his life improved over time. I want to leave it like that because we all know what happens later in China, sad.
Even though Queue was enforced by the Qing Dynasty, you can see that the soldiers on 6:03 are flying a variation of the Kuomintang flag, with what seems to be civilians walking inside of the forbidden city (a no-go if it were before 1912).
The year after, Japanese started to invade China in the north east.... and then to the south! The undeclared invasion was ended in 1945, when the second atomic bomb served Japan!
@@HuiQiu-n1h Mr or Miss Tang- I was making a pun, based on a misspelling in the answer. This is probably something that you wouldn’t pick up on if your English language comprehension is not fully developed.
La Chine, c'est une grande civilation de 5000 ans, une culture d’une grande finesse. J’adore cette civilisation très cultivée et qui n’a pas attaqué ni bombardé ni détruit d’autre pays, ni détruit d’autre culture. Merci pour ce film reportage très instructif.
The swatika is an ancient Indo Aryan symbol, which was brought to India by the fore fathers of the northern Indian conquerors. It was later assimilated with the Buddhist religion and thus, centuries later when China accepted Buddhism as a mainstream religion during the Tang dynasty, the symbol came with it. So yes, the connection is there and the Nazis, however distant, had the same source as what we see in China.
Well did China document its own history with films? Or they were only able to paint and draw with calligraphy instead. What appeared to be backward was backward can you deny?
@@marcduchamp5512 It is all relative, you appear backward to me based on your comment. Technology is not always an advancement. You want a contemporary example , the smartphone. To most it's an object of arrogant social status display, to a whole generation it has replaced normal interaction and created crooked over kids who do not know non-induced emotions.
It's not Taiwan, it the nationalist party Kwo min tang flag, that later fled to taiwan. And never did the KMT sided or ''part'' of Empire of Japan. Only the island taiwan was from japan, but later KMT fled there and control it till now. Get your history facts right ppl!
I'd say time had to progress for it to be accurate. The ghosts of empire we see in the video are unbeknownst to the narrator at the time. The Ghosts of western empires in China.
The dish nowadays is not indeed. It transformed a lot! But this narrator translated it directly from Chinese! Literally: left overs vegetables 雜菜 mixed vegetable is actually in that era (era of humiliation), everything you can scavenged from the ground basically.
