A silent documentary of traveling through China almost 60 years ago in the Mao Zedong era. Sound added later. See my other 1250 clips of the old world gone bye by searching with 'michael rogge' and visit my site 'Man and the unknown'
People feel they need so much because society dictates it to them, and advertizing plays with their mind all day long telling them they need everything. I have lived in Vietnam for 11 years, and much of life here is just one meal to the next and no worry about tomorrow, with many of the same kinds of scenes in this great video. Today, you won't find self storage facilities everywhere in most of Asia...because most people don't have anything to put in them as compared to America where people have so much extra they need an extra place to stash it. Thankful that people at the time had enough forward thinking to take videos like this in a documentary style. Most likely to show and view when when they got back home, but probably never realized the historical significance they would have decades later.
Self storage facilities don't exist in America only because we have too many things. They exist because Americans live transient lives. We often must store our possessions in temporary places because we will be moving from city to city many times in our lives. This mentality and freedom doesn't exist in many other places. An Asian is more likely to die in the town where he was born than an American. And, sadly, sometimes the storage facilities are used by people who are nearly homeless. When they are evicted from their homes, they will scratch out a living for enough money to store their things until they can again find a home. Part of a contract at these facilities states that you will not live in the space that you rent. Sadly, I personally have known people who have done that!
@@kritische3959 China has greatly changed since Mao's time. I was there from 1999-2012 and I am an economics professor. The economics used now is mainstream but the dictatorship was lessened after Mao died. Since Xi Jinping got there his dictatorship has become worse than it was before he was president. The USA and China are both dynamic. that is they are both changing in their own ways It is always interesting. take care.
1998-ban voltam Kínában. Akkor Xian és Peking között, a vonatból még láttam hasonló falvakat, mint ebben a videóban. Ugyanakkor már álltak a traverzek, amiket akkor nem tudtam mire vélni. Ma talán tudom, hogy a gyorsvasút, vagy autópálya tartói lehettek.(?)
They told me before Deng Xiaoping, everyone was ax murdering each other and dying off starvation. These guys look quite peace full and well fed. In fact, this looks like Mumbai or Delhi of the 1960s
disway71 it’s 100% wuhan, it’s a super city just like shanghai, at that time, wuhan is as important as shanghai, however this city paid a lot tax to government in order to develop other city, such as Guangzhou, Shenzhen. I was born in wuhan, I know the history of this city. You can go there nowadays and you still can see these characters and it still super huge city nowadays.
Shanghai and Wuhan were very similar by then. They were both influenced by foreign countries like UK, US and Russia. You can tell by the buildings. Hankou was like the bund in Shanghai
@@carmenw4326 ah, yes. Thankyou. I wondered about that. The buildings at the 3 and a half minute mark look very Victorian or western. We have similar late 1800s buildings in my home town of Rockhampton QLD Australia. Also the domed looking building 5:30 minutes into the video. Fantastic footage.
These people were afraid to speak out against the one party goverment. Meanwhile tens of millions starved to death and resorted to and experienced ll sorts of horrific things! This video showing apparent prosperity and good living was Mao's way of saying 'everything's great in China'. Well stocked food stalls and well dressed people? Come on!
Disingenuous vid o wha supremacy lookd lik in a desperate country o dat time period! 🌸🍯🐝🦾🇺🇸 deres no way da original ethnicity cld’ve been totally ‘cleansed’ during dat time…🤔🤨🚬 I need a comparison 2 a neighboring city o village…! I donot blieve it was as homogeneous as projectd by da choice o area shown🤔🧠🫀🎀 champa n muslim wer dere b4 ‘64! Da title says ‘China’ but shos bits.
