This is what Shanghai looked like in 1973. I wonder how much has changed since. See the next clip for part 2 See my other 1000 clips by searching RU-vid with 'michael rogge' Website 'Man and the Unknown' wichm.home.xs4a...
I lived in Shanghai for 10 years and I recognise many of the places in the film, though its now dominated by hi rises and skyscrapers. I notice that Pudong, where I lived until 2014, was just fields in 1973. The one thing that hasn't changed is the Chinese people - I recognise in the video exactly the same street life today as 45 years ago. And many people still live in the lane houses that survive as run down districts among the overpasses and new apartment buildings. We look today at North Korea in exactly the same way as we in the West viewed China in the 1970s. Fascinating.
it's Sunday, 21st May, 2023 I'm living in Shanghai rn watching this video. when i look out the window it's a different world probably the most futuristic city you can find on planet earth its wild the changes are crazy
@@BILLCC1988 I was very impressed by Shanghai and chinese technology and cities. The people were also very nice and courteous. I had heard so many negative things about China before going myself. I went in 2018 and cannot wait to return.
@@rosofficesolutionsinc1572 It depend. For example London and NYC have changed also but in no way as much as Shanghai has. If you look at old movies from postwar (eg sixties) London, NYC, Shanghai and compare those to current videos the different becomes apparent. It's also visible in the numbers China in a few decades (so also Shanghai) has used more concrete and steel in building infrastructure than the USA in the entirety of its existence.
He has been making documentaries up till 2012 on US and international subjects. I’m confident he has visited Shanghai since this documentary. Would be great if he would make a video about it.
My wife is from Shanghai and I first in 1990. At that time some of it still looked much as seen in the video. I've lived here for about 6 and a half years now and the city is almost completely changed, though I can still see some of those famous old buildings on the Bund (Waitan) across the river outside my window. Very well done. Thank you!
I hope there are more videos of China pre-1980’s Reform and Opening Up. I have two daughters that are Chinese-Jewish Americans. So, although they were born in ChengDu, now live in the USA, and speak multiple languages, it is important to know about their homeland’s history and development. I also hope the USA-Israel-China relations grow, and can learn from history and now, to strengthen and enhance communication, community, and safety in a globalized world society.
and meanwhile I am watching this documentary on a day in which Nanjing is polluted at its worst. Might be why I'm inside watching this video right now.
I am not Chinese but my mother is Chinese and she was born in 1973. It's amazing that the video is the year my mother was born. My father lived well when he was young, so he bought a TV early. But I heard that the Chinese mother first bought a TV in the late 80s, and I was surprised to hear that.
From this to what it is now in less than 50 years, just an incredible economic achievement. Visited Shanghai a few years back and was completely mind blown!
Irv Drasnin's career in documentary filmmaking and broadcast journalism includes 35 years at CBS News and PBS, covering a wide range of topics both foreign and domestic, contemporary and historical. Among his 31 films are The Guns of Autumn, Apartheid, Who Has a Right to Rhodesia, Inside the Union, The Radio Priest, Forever Baseball and a chronicle of modern China beginning with Misunderstanding China (1972), Shanghai (1974), Looking for Mao (1983), China After Tiananmen (1992) and The Revolutionary (2011).
What a strangely functional and straightforward society and life in urban Shanghai just 2 generations ago. My mother was born in the Shanghai of the 70's and recalled life being similar to this video. This is not to say that the Shanghai of today is not magnificent, with it's insanely clean and functional metro system, cosmopolitan lifestyle and fabulous architecture; though I can't help but feel that the rift of inequality has been exponentially getting worse. Boarded up grimy slums next to anonymous skyscrapers, rusty bicycles cycling near expensive foreign cars. Man I miss China and the crowds. Life is much more stressful, complicated and inhumane back home in LA County
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Amazing to watch it in 2018. We are living in Shanghai from 2014 and I started also Vlog about this city. But this video documentary is showing the old beautiful Shanghai
I live in shanghai now and it's so different!!! It's even more expensive than other countries!!! The house cost you more 70000 dollars per square meter!!!
i lived here from 2006 - 2015 great, amazing city - pudong new area, honkou near the river/suzhou creek and then down near shanghai railway station in south thanks for uploading
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Can't wait for part two. It looks like well balanced documentary, which reflects improvements in CN-USA relationships. It is fascinating how China didn't change and how much China is changed since then. I love the part with traffic jam.
It's no wonder that the crowds at the beginning were staring at the foreigners making a movie - from Shanghai being a foreign-controlled city up to 1949, to virtually all foreigners disappearing for decades, it was extremely unusual to see any non-Chinese in the early '70s. I had friends who visited in 1981 and they too were surrounded by large groups of curious people even then.
‘There are no private vehicles, and everyone commutes by bike’ This literally looks like a dream. I’d much rather prefer this to the car dominated cities we live in today. Let’s bring this back.
China managed to build a huge high speed network in 15 years,but my country only managed to build a short 80 mile line from the capital to the eurotunnel
Hi Michael, I am writing to you from a tv program in Spain. For a report that we are doing we would like to include a fragment of this video of yours. It would only be a few seconds. We would be delighted to thank you for the program. Thanks in advance
Aside from the fact that the city skyline looks more like this today: The gap between the rich and poor is huge now. There's no more free healthcare. Vegetable market is entirely staffed by migrant workers who make barely enough to survive. Housing market is no longer affordable for the majority (price reflects that of Tokyo while average wage is less than half of Tokyo's). Traffic is even worse because of car ownership. Corruption, prostitution are the norm...
The rich have gotten richer and poor are at their worst in the past 50 years......by how things have turned out today, we can pretty much predict the future....I think one of the major issues in the future will be UNEMPLOYMENT, and by unemployment I mean good jobs for the college graduates. The lower middle class is the worst hit community today and things are about to become worse.
It’s incredible how fast China has advanced and become wealthy. Decades ago, 100s of millions of people were living poverty. I don’t like communist supporting regimes but they deserve credit for changing their country so fast.
Communism brought them widespread poverty and famine. China is no longer a true communist country, they're recent prosperity in past decades is from opening up to trade and certain capitalist ideas. Communism is in no way responsible for the positive changes.
no, they don't deserve the credit. Communist China began shaking hands with the US in the early 70s. that's when the miracle slowly began to happen. in the 80s, Communist China exported lots of guns to the US civilian market. that's the fact that I know, and I am very sure about this fact. trades with the West really helped Communist China became more developed.
上海当时的经济是被毛泽东搞臭的,但是在那种高压统治下治安的确是不错(文革高峰时期除外) the economy of shanghai was ruined by Mao zedong, however, the crime rate was pretty low at that time (except some years during the culture revolution)
i am a shanghainess who was born and lived for over 30 years, to be honest we all miss the old version of shanghai hate the modern city no because shanghai is always the top city in asia but too many high rise building in here totally changed. it lost its own taste and this is no longer shanghai any more.
I was in Sanghai 39 years ago for a week and i agree with you . Not been there since but when i see what it looks like now on video I don't want to go back but keep and cherish the memory .
Greeting from Indonesia. I live in shanghai right now, My wife is Shanghainese, In my opinion, old Shanghai already become one of the best city in Asia. My father visited Shanghai in 1962 and he said wonderful.
Agree. This is Shanghai no more. It just looks plain ugly. Look at London and many other cities around Europe. They are all so well preserved despite their booming economies in the last century. Very sad!
@@noritos7648 exactly, but i still do not want to praise pure communist regime. Capitalism leads inequality among people, government needs to regulate and redistribute wealth. The wealth creation actually need capitalists. Anyway, Eastern Germany was much richer at that time, it was the richest communist country to my view.
Stop complaining about “China would not build a city like this”, it’s not a racist judgement!! They’re simply saying that if the Chinese were going to build a big city, they wouldn’t make it like that (with an English style)... People get triggered over too many things
It's surprising, but some of those scenes can still be seen in China today. Buggies or carts completely overloaded, people getting haircuts in the street by street barbers, people living in Hutongs (some are nice, others aren't, outside toilets to be shared by the community living in a Hutong (basically just holes in the ground with no toilet paper or soap or hot water and no separation, people crouch next to each other over the separated holes). People (especially migrant workers living in very small rooms with a bed, .mattress or bunk beds, sometimes the rooms are two or three levels below ground in a basement). Of course, there are the modern places, skyscrapers etc. for the fortunate, but a lot of people are still living in the old style. Having said all that, I lived in Beijing and I loved it there, but I felt sorry for the poor, for the migrant workers, who are exploited, barely get enough to live on, and are living in bad conditions. I speak about Beijing, but this can be found everywhere in China. I truly miss Beijing and my friends there, among them the poor and also migrant workers, as well as the more fortunate.
not really. You can't find those anywhere else other than Beijing, some lanes in Chongqing & GuangZhou where people flock from rural areas everyday even now. having said that many people living in these same cities now live the most futuristic life you can have on planet earth that makes your first world cities look very gloomy. right?
industrization change the world,and sitll change the Chineeee too!industrization are very useful for modern world, and they arent come from some thought and theory
Interesting: during the Cultural Revolution marriage was at 25 years and 2 children.. From the 80s and the start of the “Great Experiment” marriage was 30 years and 1 child only.
Yes. The chinese would not have built a city this way. No doubt Shangwai has got western and chinese culture and style. It was highly influenced by western countries during 20s-40s, and so it was the best city in asia by that time. When the communists took place, the city development went backwards, but still, one of the better cities in China. You can imagine how other cities would be. Shanghai today is very different from 40 years ago(acutally 48 years ago), China has adopted more modern " socialism", more like a half capitalism, and that's how shanghai become shanghai nowadays.
waiting for part2, "fish was 40cents a pc.".....the non-farmed yellow croaker fish i had in a restaurant two months ago in shanghai was 1,200yuan, (USD180.-)
Interessante film. Ik luister maar niet teveel naar de begeleidende teksten. Gezien onderstaande ruzies over goed of slecht is er kennelijk veel dat monden opent en woorden losbreekt. Ik kijk liever naar de beelden, die indrukwekkend zijn!
as a Malaysian Chinese I am not aware of life in China during the 1970s. I just know of Chairman Mao who dominated a huge influence of the country policies, Surprising the Shanghainese already knew businesses and trading at those time
+Max K We the Chinese do felt being treated unfairly in one way or another. Special priviledge were given to the so called Bumiputera. However thank to it, we are immune, self reliance and self dependent and do not rely on the present Government goodies, we are strong and taught our young generation to be strong mentally, independent and work hard if we want success . Today we are much better off than most of the Bumiputera and we come clean in term of hard earned money and we are proud of ourselves.
+Max K what made you have in mind of choosing to live in Malaysia? I am actually encouraging my offspring to migrate elsewhere where everyone is treat equally and the Government is fair and their Ministers are not racist. Though I was born in Sarawak, the Malaysian Eastern State across the South China Sea I do not speak fluent Bahasa Malaysia till today as during my childhood and toward my high school Bahasa Malaysia was not emphasized in our education. I was brought up in a missionary school where we have teachers from India and our Father a Dutch and even my English teacher was from Great Britian. Here in our state of sarawak, we live a rather peaceful lives where people of various ethic and races mingle well and respect one another .Those who have been to Sarawak shall feel the different in the quality of life in between the Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo States- Sarawak & Sabah.
Imagine how advanced and peaceful Humanity would have been with out the Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, French, English, Scottish, Turkey, United states, Germans, Italians.