The Story of How China Ruined Everything 

"When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death. It is better to let half the people die so that others can eat their fill" Wow now i know where Thanos get his idea from

"Mao scared to lose power" oh no its Stalin all over again

I have an issue with 11:07. The CCP was not 'more effective' at fighting the Japanese. It was the Nationalists who bore the brunt of the fighting while the Communists simply built up strength for the Civil War. Also your video makes it seem as if Xi who has only been around for a few years singlehandedly modernized China. You know there is this guy called Deng Xiaopeng not to mention a string of successors before Xi right?

Amazing video! This kinda humoristic approach you give to the video at times makes it really entertaining to watch and the explanations are really simple to understand. 10/10.

“How China ruined everything” *plays Japanese song*

If public schools taught like this. Kids wouldn't be so bored with the education system.

As someone who studied Chinese history in uni for a year I'm in awe of this masterpiece of a video and how much info you packed into the visuals

My grandpa told me, before CCP arrived, there was forest growing from the edge of the field right towards doorstep, after the great leap of steel making, the whole hill was as bare as a bald head, even the remaining stumps were dig out for fuel to make steel. As the video said, the CCP ask everyone to donate their pot to make steel, and promise them they can eat at the public canteen. In the end the steel they made were so poor qualities that were of NO Fucking use. The canteen runs well for about one year, however, as everyone works in the people's commune, no one works hard in the field. Soon the grain stock run out. One day in 1959, the people's commune simply stopped serving any food. Since many family has made their pots into 'steel', they have nothing to cook, and no private food ownership was allowed before, many died soon after this. During the great famine, All the remaining trees in the village lost their bark. A neighbor ate his own dead father's body, the meat on the legs was totally cut off when they finally buried him. Another neighbor died in 1962 when the famine was nearly over, he was too weak to get off bed when his family finally had the new season's radish harvest, his family boiled the radish with the green top and made a soup, but he died just minutes before the soup was ready😰 even for years, I still remember the tear in their eyes when talking about this period of history when I was young. My grandparents and their children didn't starve to death because they have some secret rice storage at home when people were having meals in the public canteen, they also carefully planned the amount of rice they eat to a minimum as soon as the canteen stop serving, which borrows them more time in the famine. During the famine, my grandma gathered locust leaves for the family to eat, (actually it was a luxury at that time as locust is a tree of pea's family, it's leaves is high in protein and tastes better. So she had to hurry before others come). There are wooded spikes on the steams of locust, and one spike stuck into her right thumb's nail bed, causing her nail to separate from the nail bed. There was no medical care at that time, the wound never properly healed but malformed over time, and it still looked terrible even now. We Chinese never forget the crime committed by CCP, hope I can see the day they pay off for all the life they killed.

Japan: when you were even worse than the nazis but everyone just remembers germany Germany: when everyone only accuses you for being evil but atleast you never got nuked twice

CCP during revolution : NO CAPITALISM! Also CCP : Hello Dictatorship

There's a balance point between making a history video both informative and entertaining, and I have to say you did a phenomenal job with it here. Many times I chuckled from the jokes while still being engaged with the big picture. Well earned like for this. Great job.

Wow. Completely blew my mind. Good work and very informative! I've never considered the history on that side of the globe and I ordered the book referenced here. Keep it up yo!

Mao Zedong: improves the education The people: get more intelligent and call him out M Z: *you were not supposed to do that*

> Two anime streamer girls mention Taiwan in a completely non political context China: "And I take that personally" The ccp sure has glass bones and paper skin.

Excellent report. Informative and delivered in a tarty fashion, almost like the old Economist magazine would. And ... your sports references and jokes were hilarious 😂 The mashing of Lebron and Mao faces was pure evil 😂😂 and dissing the Warriors choke job is wicked 🤣🤣🤣 Keep it up ... never stop.

I just found ur cane sir, and if i may say. i loved it. Greeting from costa rica and coungratulations on winning ur 1# fan (me). And happy 2022

as a chinese guy i can confirm that he’s talking about the government not it’s people

This was legendary. I reposted it on my community page.

-300000000000000000000 social credits

wait... did this guy just skip the four-man gang, Deng's reforms, the post-Deng era, and everything else in modern Chinese history?

Man, that's a rough history. ...silly old bear.

“Or at worst… I get demonetized” Looks at video *Salute our fallen soldier*

Lots of CCP shills, bots and bootlickers in this comment thread lmao

Your summary,video, is fantastic and beyond reproach. I have read about China's history over 5000 yrs more or less and can follow your writings. I'm recommending this video summary to my wife and my son , a PHD student.😌🙏

Almost every history includes, "and then the british" lol😂

"They believed that every other race was inferior to the Chinese" Well, if my parents who are at least the 20th generation Indonesian-Chinese of our family still try to instill that belief in me, imagine them.

I loved loved loved this. I've been reading a few books to get to the bottom of what china has done, and now because of you, I've saved a lot of time. This must have taken months to research and explain thoroughly. I truly appreciate it especially with you doing this even though you would get demonitized. Signing up for your patreon now.

When you think trump is bad and you finally look at China.

The Opium Wars Is the funniest saddest thing I've ever heard of. How do you lose the right to rid your country from drugs mate.

You didn't even mention Deng Xioping, the man who began the real economic reforms after Mao.

its crazy how social credit was espoused upon and people even complained through the media about it for the longest time and all of a sudden people are saying that it was just a rumor and an idea entertained in 2013 that never came to fruition.

As a Indian, this is satisfactory.

China: “We’re fine! We’re definitely not in a crisis.”

Mao: We need to produce more stuff! Peasants: How, are we finally getting industrial machinery? Mao: lol no just work harder

This video gives way too much props to Bid Daddy Xi. From my experience in reading too many xianxia and wuxia webnovels, what I've picked up is that no one ever mentions Mao and praises Deng Xiaoping to the hi heavens. So in my impression the key turning points occurred in 1979 and in 1992.

27:18 The dutch Lion of Formosa I love that painting forgot its name.

1:30 I love how he thinks that getting demonitized is worse than getting banned from china.

Did anyone else unironically really enjoy this history lesson? Kinda reminded me of Oversimplified vids

I don't know why you skipped over the recent history of Deng Xiaoping and the other leaders that spearheaded the economic recovery of China.

Thank you very much for this amazingly informative video. It connects the dots for a lot of seemingly unrelated questions and gives a coherent explanation and overview. *claps* Much respect

If history in schools was like this, I would have remembered a lot more of it.

It seems to me this video is missing a HUGE part about Deng Xiao Ping. I mean, you basically went from China in ashes after Cultural Revolution directly to Xi. That's like from 1977 to 2011 never existed.

China? Is that, like, part of Taiwan?

I really like the video. The facts, the humour, the storytelling was so on point. But please credit the animators, I think some of the animations were taken from the Channel Crashcoarse's videos.

"Build a dam", they said. "It'll protect the villagers and crops and feed our families for millenia." they said.

I gave everything I had for 2 weeks into this video. And RU-vid demonetized me, so please leave a like and share with your friends. I honestly don't care about the money, but want this to be seen by as many people as possible. Hope y'all learned something, stay safe, love you all. - fat asian

4:43 Kraut moment 🥰 (that part is an extract from a Kraut video)

Only BMOnus cane make me pretend i'm not laughing during a description of the Grape of Nanking.

They even ruined hololive.

I’m learning about China right now....... imagine a fifa youtuber teaching a Chinese history lesson better than a real teacher

Wasn’t the slides art about the Chinese and using Latin from a Kraut video originally? Did you credit him or do I not know the source well enough

Why did china have to even be on the map

wtf this guy is a soccer channel?! I would have assumed he's one of those entertaining history channels. amazing Work on content he's never attempted before!

You also missed out a large part of history including “why” Japan actually cracked the shits with China and invaded, being why the British were even in Hong Kong to begin with..

the fact you never hear this on news is how much china can do

Probably more research needs to be done in order not to give false information to people. 1. The map used in 1:59 was inaccurate and did not accurately describe the location of early Chinese civilization 2. Yu the Great was not the first emperor of China. He is the founder of China's first ever 'mythical' Xia Dynasty, dating centuries way back before the first emperor (Qin Shih Huang)

From Mao to Xi, dude skipped Deng, like the man never existed...

Petition to bring back Wang Gang as Wang Gang lll

Every other country history: "and then the British" Balkans: "and then British ran away"

15:30 they made dog sh** steel "Who would have known?" 🤷‍♂️🤣🤣🤣 The way he said it got me rolling!

why didn't you mention that Deng xiao ping was the reason why china started its capitalistic reforms, Xi Jinping had nothing or very little to do with the early initial loosening up of communistic control over the market it was almost entirely to do with Deng xiao, not xi Jinping.

Wait.. i just watched 27 minutes of history lesson in my free time. This youtuber is truly amazing

I love how you said that being demonitized is worse than being banned from China.

07:45 "Giving a region (Hong Kong) democracy and free press for 99 years and then giving it back to a now totalitarian communist government and you can understand why it isn't going smoothly." London didn't give Hong Kong democracy and free press for 99 years - they imposed British governers on the people of Hong Kong until 1995 - 2 years before they had to surrender it back. Britain only introduced democracy to try to cause problems to China.

Deng Xiaoping should be in this video. As he started the more capitalistic china... Xi in reality is just taking advantage of growth that was made and continued until Xi. And now he feels like going back to the old ways. He just has become leader in a right time.

A year and a half later... The RU-vid algorithm leads me to YOU. Dude, you are LEGEND! This video was nothing short of a work of art. You have an amazing gift. And you have earned my sub. I cannot wait to watch more. Keep on keeping on.

Given everything that is happening since this was posted. I think this will need a part 2 in the next few years.

Really happy you brought up Nanking, it has to be remembered

I like how he overlayed a Japanese song over chinese scenes like they're not about to be at war with each other

I’m so happy that this isn’t just bashing China but an actually informative video

5:40 is the funniest pic i ever seen hahahaaha good one man

I didn't even know this. I guess that's what happens when your school's "World History" class only covers a little bit of the middle ages through Monty Python movies and mostly the Revolutionary War.

Title: "How china ruined everything" Video: So you want to know China's history from start to end?

Literally the funniest 28 minutes of history I have ever learnt in my whole life.

2 years later, boy were you wrong...

Hey did you get rid of the rest of this series? I cant find your video on Hong Kong

The moment when Great Britain fights a war so that they can sell drugs to China

Great Britain: *So addicted to tea, it got another country hooked on drugs.* *Edit* Hey, um, BM...I don't know how but I think I had started a flame war or two...My bad, buddy...

"let the half die" Is Mao thanos?

0:26 training exercise? I think they mean a weird variant of fishing.

As much as I love how enlightening this video is, your mention of how China went from communism to capitalism lacks mention of Hua Guofeng and Deng Xiaoping, they're ultimately prominent in the economic reforms.

"When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill." -Mao Zedong (Asian Thanos)

Attack on Titan music during the talk about WW2 lol

Awesome video - interesting facts, great humour and nice soundtrack

Modern China kind of reminds me of 1984 by George Orwell. You speak out in any way against the government, and then all of a sudden you just disappear (“vaporized”)

12:00 I didn't know that Thanos was actually Mao.

you left out that Chairman Mao was the inspiration for Kim Jong Un's haircut

Also keep in mind that those 40mil Chinese that died is the equivalent to 2/3 of all WW2 casualties

"This is why my parents fled to America, and later on something else followed us to America" Great

"While the drought hit China, it still exported food" Reminds me of a certain Soviet Union and the Golodomor...

Mao. In terms of casualties, literally worse than Hitler.

The Japanese to the Chinese in ww2 is like the Croats to the Serbs in ww2 Germany almost stepped in on that

Those asking, it got demonetized so he's reuploading it again

Be carful dude China might send some people to “re-educate “you . (Serious ) loved this video subbing because of it .

But you know I'm totally digging your brief history documentary I wish you had more. You have the narration skills of the undivided attention & as well as comically interesting, most of all your realness got me like I'm loving this kid. If that were you at the very beginning your a cutie pie 🥧. Just appear to be a lot younger than me of course. More like my son's age.

Dude you should be employed by the schools board to educate kids. That was so informative, interesting and engaging any kid could’ve learned something from that video. Great job 👏

I don't I've ever laughed so much during a history lesson

11:05 The Communist were not "the clearly more effective" at deterring the Japanese. The Nationalist at the time had by far the larger army compared to the Communists and were doing most of the fighting. It was just that the Nationalists were seen as not doing enough in the beginning since they were more interested in purging the Communists, which they almost did at the time, instead of fighting the invading Japanese forces. The Nationalists had exhausted much of their resources fighting, first the Communists, and then the Japanese. While the Communist gained the upper hand through propaganda, unconventional guerilla tactics, and their vast spy network.

0:13 I just love background song what's the name of it?

Hey, can any kind stranger tell me the song at the start, like playing around from 0:27 to 0:47 ? Thanks in advance !