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  • nerds

  • this video is full of win! :D

    I studied in Tsinghua as well, miss the place so much!!

  • Wow, what a racial balance to sing this well-known song!!! Love you all.

  • i studied in china last sem (2011) and its too bad we weren't able to think of doing something like this. GREAT JOB! :)

  • lol?!

    

  • whoa this is great

  • Well bloody done, you look like you had so much fun ^_^

  • It's hilarious. Well done guys :-D

  • I really like it! I want to go to China so badly! :D

  • hahaha great cover

  • Outstanding job, everyone! 我很喜欢你的小电影。:)

  • well done 

  • Some parts were really nice, haha it'll be better if you can make them lip sync at the correct time with the correct lyrics xD Hope that you can make another better version of this because I kinda like ur version too hahaha :D

  • 2:01 wow, he looks rather bored huh XD he kinda rolled his eyes a bit.

  • this made me smile

  • cool!

  • LIP DUB ???

  • Great Video! :)

  • Ohhoooooh this is cute :D

  • Type  "Postgraduate class at Tsinghua University " into the search bar and read my comments about the University of Dundee.

  • just shut up.. dont need to comment much. aduh

  • 0:43 guy is uber-cool hehe

  • hahaha this was one of the best videos i've ever seen on Youtube... and not just because i'm drunk

  • haha cool. This video made me smile.

  • It's absolutely lovely! Good job!

  • dang seriously dude....why let other races sing...that's embarrassing man, you in my eyes are a trader, but what ever you are white washed just remember that, AZN pride represent!

  • Why can't you see that "other races" singing this theme and in chinese is a sign of respect and universality.  It's beautiful. Since when does our Asian pride need to be racist.

  • asian pride is on a national level. there is no one unified chinese cultural if you consider the northern west china regions. there are muslims who are calling for independence. when you call the heterogeneous bodies as one unified ethnic/race/cultural identity/entity, you are racist. i think is that the problem.

  • so let me get this right: you're a racist if you're NOT a racist. You're definition of "Asian" pride is not Asian at all but a call for each ethnicity to hate the next one. The PRC's policy from the get go was to unify all minorities into a strong nation and thus throw out the imperialist who, for their purposes of conquest, want exactly what you advocate. So how long have you been a CIA pimp?

  • There are differences among people but that doesn't mean hating each other. we have different youtube accounts name. does that mean i hate you? the concept of nation came from imperialism and colonialism. dynasty was not a nation or state. nation-state came through political struggles. what is embedded within nation-state is a colonial legacy that no one can deny from the chinese regions. you throw out imperialist does not mean you have to establish a nation-state. it is not a sequential order

  • do you exactly know what the Chinese state is doing? chinese foreign capital investment in Africa is killing the local people. the extraction of the resources all go somewhere else but not the locals. You are able to use youtube precisely because someone is working for you in a different place. Mao Zedong knew that very well through out the 60s, but neoliberals turn that around and say that he did everything wrong. rural chinese workers cannot even live in cities. one unified chinese nation? no.

  • I do not disagree with criticism of China's own dalliance with capitalism and the consequences of its own neo-liberalism. I don't doubt there will be a reckoning. If this leads to retrograde Han chauvinism, then it needs to be opposed. However, your logic that anti-imperialism and the establishment of a nation-state, in this case historic China including ethnic minorities, is "not sequential" leads to the desired secessionism which is at the heart of imperialism's strategy of reconquest ...

  • ... This has especially been the strategic policy of the US, to this day. There is no middle ground. Do you think that 56 ethnic minorities would be better off under a fragmented China too weak to ward off the return of foreign powers? I don't believe that China hasn't made mistakes, but it has consistently tried to implement on principle its policy of developing it's minority regions. To describe that as oppression is myopic. Dealing with contradictions is one thing, suicide another.

  • i am not arguing on the side of the "US strategic policy". US has been calling for a more democratic china that is no doubts about it. i am arguing against the eurocentric idea that China is one unified territory. China has not been one unified territories. there had been and still are resistances from below. You had secret socieities back then now you have metal heads and punk rockers. What you refer to as China only speaks to the coastal cities and beijing. these are exclusive terms

  • You associate a "fragmented" China with imperialism in China. These two do not go hand in hand. Late Qing was unified in someways (if you excluded all the resistance), then how come the imperial power was still be able to come in? unity does not mean that you will have a "better" country or nation-state. When i used sequential, I mean that you don't have to move from point A to B in a linear sense. one unified China precisely means internal dominations among your own people.

  • The "sequence" that I'm having a hard time understanding is your logic. Here's what I think you're saying: 1) your reference to "eurocentric idea" infers that the nation concept applies only to European countries, but not China because 2) there exists "resistances" in China. These assertions are pulled out of thin air and not based on any historical reality. Are you equating the nation concept with ethnic homogeneity? If you adhere to that definition then nations cannot exist because ...

  • 1. Eurocentric ideas apply not only in the Europe but in Asia. I use this in a way to refer to the adaptation of a colonial way of thinking, activities, ways things are organized, politics, economics, etc. Eurocentric in a way that racist thinking, in terms of color, location, certain bio-genetic-pheno charateristics and exploitation, are embedded within the Chinese nation state.

  • 2. There HAVE been resistance. Look at 19th century secret societies, Tian Di Hui, Tai Ping Tian Guo, and other smaller local association. All these were anti-british/qing dynastic forces. they were also anti-capitalist resistance forces. Look at local resistance right now in China, in the southern coastal cities, migrant workers are rebelling. look at the Olympic construction, that created local resistance as well. These ARE historical reality. You may see them different than me.

  • Are you equating the nation concept with ethnic homogeneity?

    YES. After the opium war, qing scholars and reformers were sending people out to France and other European states to learn how to build prisons. the influences of west went on to early 20th century, that was when a new identity was being call for. You need ONE homogenized identity to build a nation. This automatically exclude many many heterogeneous local groups. the idea of gan hua, transforming one's soul also came.

  • in order for you to call for one unified group/identity/nation/state/"c­hinese" you need to be able to force people to change their ways of life. labor camp was basically free labor. during the republic period, the nationalist used it on a large scale. Your one unified China is no better than the Kuomingtang, and this betrayed the communist idea. Marx did not call for one unified country nor state nor a "chinese". CCP doesn't know shit but to exploit its own people. i am not favoring taiwen here

  • You profess familiarity with Marx yet you glaringly dismiss Marxism's foundational tenet: historical materialism. I take by your handle that your approach to history is as a Kantian idealist. That is evidenced by your arguments which are disparate and arbitrary assertions pulled from thin air. You imply that you are anti-imperialist, yet you don't speak to how China or even your mythical "ethnic nations" are to defend against it. Is US imperialism even real to you? Your example of late ...

  • At most, i talked about nation-state in Weberian terms, because I simply cannot do a 200 years history through youtube. You are right on the Kantian point, but I am not a Kantian myself. Other way for me to talk about China as a nation, I would have to go through labor formations, which again I can't do it here. I have at least two assumptions, 1. reality is a dialectical totality (China within itself has contradictions, thus resistance and differences. this gives me the non-unified China)

  • 2. Nation-state has a historicity, though not in linear movement (cultural revolution is simply a dirty word right now), here i deviate from the manifesto. hence, there are "multiple chinese nations" evolving and self-forming since 19th century. Late qing to post60s nations are different. the way labor was and is organized differ accordingly. you cannot homogenized the two.

  • ... Qing China undermines your own argument. Late Qing China was exactly the kind of "nation" you have in mind, ie.- in name only, not yet a modern nation state that could ward off the foreign invaders. What you're arguing is for China to revert back to that weakness. Do you really think that in this parallel universe your mythical "ethnically pure nations" would remain untouched? But then Kantians should have no problems substituting Shangri-la for reality. Or is it just China hatred.

  • BTW, your assertion that a nation can only be defined as ethnically homogenous is dead wrong. Is the US a nation and is it ethnically homogenous? Or Europe? The modern nation-state is an historic culmination of unifying forces to establish a geo-political entity and usually incorporates ethnic minorities. How enlightened this process is given its contingencies determines the level of tension or resolution. While there's always elements of "resistance" in no case is secession inexorable ...

  • what i argued is a process of homogenization, the emgerence of blood, soul, ethnicity, and race in China as the concepts/process/relations used in organizing labor. these processes/relations tied directly to state formation. I also argue for a racist epistemic subjectivity, even Blacks/chinese in US call themselves American. for me, it has to do with bourgeoisie formation and state formation. thus,you need ONE homogenized laboring population under one state. state is a series of relations for me

  • Yes these are culminated and unified forces, but you dismiss discontinuitity. for you to talk about china moving out from late qing, you will fall back into marxism's stage theory, which is as bad as social darwinism. Marx himself wrote to the russians that they simply did not need to destroy the peasantry before going into socialism. What i am arguing is that, China has become a new imperial capitalist power. more capitalist than the US.

  • Certainly not in China's case despite your unproven claims of atrocities. Historic continuity and the CCP's national minorities policy has been consistently principled and progressive (which IS proven) exposes your attacks for the nonsense that it is. You obviously read history but you don't synthesize well. You cherry-pick to justify your preconceptions. While you verbalize much on Marx, KMT, CCP, "nation-state" and racism it is uninformed, incoherent, simpleminded and bigoted.

  • How is CCP's national minorities policy progressive? It homogenized populations that do not want to be homogenized. It simply ignored these contradictions without solving them, just look at the muslims and tibet. These contradictions are real and the policies are not doing anything about it but simply supress them. Why you can cherry pick to support your view and I can't? Knowledge formation is division of the reality through abstractions. otherwise you have no principles.

  • I already gave you the examples from the labor camps moving from the republic period to post40s period. These are simply homogenizing processes. It shows you what the current chinese state is doing. cultural revolution was the most progressive moment. your multi-ethnic policies is simply a bourgeoisie call for exploitation and state-wide labor control techniques. the chinese state is organizing the overseas capitalist investment at the sametime to supress internal differences.

  • back to your historical materialism point, i can start with the simplest form of labor production/relation and move from there. it does not mean that i cannot use concepts, types, categories, and relations to analyze this abstract-to-concrete movement. Kant and Marx work together. they differ on a episetmological level, which is why i stated my assumptions. reality cannot be understood without abstractions. this is true on both episetmological levels. you only see the kantian side

  • Well. kantimmanuel105, it's been a nice exchange of ideas. I appreciate your taking the trouble to engage in a depth, which is more than I can say for most of the graffiti that typifies YouTube exchanges. We will have to agree to disagree. Yes, as evidenced, we have epistemological differences which results in you hating China and I don't. BTW, as a parting shot: I don't cherry-pick ... you do. Thanks and good luck.

  • @landtorpedo

    I don't understand why you still make such an argument saying that I hate China. That is not what I have been saying. For you to call me a hater, you have to make violent classification against me and against the people living in the region call china right now. you do cherry pick. you cherry pick parts of what i said and call me out a hater. you don't see my responses as a whole. end of conversation

  • i sink its have too many english...

  • omg omg omg omg omg omg tak to je velmi vtipny:D:D

  • what a shame to Tsinghua Uni!

    please stop lip syncing and never giving credit to the original singers! why can't u guys sing by yourselves.

    however, the vedio is ok

  • lol good job guys i enjoyed it

  • haha.....all foreigners?

  • omg so funny

  • wow....those bears were smaller than i thought!!! lol jk

    btw GREAT VIDEO I LOVED IT

  • excellent ! What school is this ? For foreigners ? I want to be there to learn Chinese on short course. Can u assist ?

  • lol...just think of it as the MIT of China.

  • whats MIT ?

  • This is AWESOME! Good job, guys!!!

  • 韩红 fan?

  • great job!! ^_^

    It looks really cool and all of you guys look really happy! ^^

    I really think it looks cool =)

  • to much hand moving...always waving and stuff....

    annoying but it's good

  • They arent singing it at all.

    They are just mouthing it.

    The original is better.

    Im just being honest.

  • Is it meant to be better than the original? Was the point of making it even to compete with the original? You're so stupid

  • good but the original is better

  • im proup of im chinese =)

  • this was great! i loved it!

  • Great job, ni hen hao ah!

  • hehe hen hao wan !

  • protested for what? tibet?

  • i am chinese, if u aren't tibetan or chinese, and a foreigner, please back off from tibet problem, this is internal china problem, not world problem, stay away and take care of your OWN country.

  • If you want people to mind there own business don't write about them were millions of foreigners can read and reply to them. Some people are just curious.

  • @youstbi We live in a connected world, such problems ARE world problems, OK, the Tibet problem not so much t but the Taiwan problem certainly is.

  • Great song! Great rendition of that song! Looks like everyone had a ton of fun doing the video. Kudos!

  • Great song, and funny video. Great way to learn Chinese this way!

  • Good job!

  • my mandarin class in highschool is doing this song for our schools international day!!! we're really excited!!!!

  • 哈哈,真有爱啊。

  • 很多都是清华的外籍学生吧。。。绝对是留学生。。。

  • omg this is awesome.

  • 可找着清华版了,我把这个视频放优酷上没意见吧。

  • lool

  • 1:07 the guy is sooooo damn hot

  • 都是清华的学生吗?

    拍得不错啊~ ^_^

    Are these all Tsinghua students?

    Nice job~

  • hey

    the video is pretty nice...

    r they all abroad students?

  • I love this song

  • 我觉得你的youtube-video北京欢迎你不错。

    :)

  • Hi, you probably do not care but I am studying Mandarin and I could understand your comment. Thank you! You are showing me I am making progress! jiayou!

  • 好的,你是中文学生吗?me too! I just got back from China where I was teaching English; and plan to go back to school this fall to finish up my degree in Asian Studies. My Chinese is bad though.--glad someone can read it though!

    ps-if you have yahoo messenger my screen name is the same and I could always use the spoken practice if you have a mic.

  • Yes I am a Mandarin Students!

  • hahaha

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  • @Thehotta1 first: Joey Yung is not ugly; second: what's your prob bob? third: it doesn't matter if there is a black person in the vid. you ask why? because, this is a DAMN GOOD video. if this is so bad like you said, then make a better one!

  • Very nice video. However, you shouldnt have lip sinc. It would have been alot more amazing if you all actually sang and it would have also been nice to see the non-chinese sing.

  • I thought about that... However, believe me, it was better for us to lipsync.

  • nice ;)

  • 太山寨了。。。

  • to be honest, this is a really shitty video...

    air pollution is horrible... the sky is WHITE/GRAY!!!!

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  • CatriaCanada: I agree that the air pollution is horrible, I've been to Beijing many times. It is like a sweltering humidity. This video is great though, it shows more of what Bei Jing is like than the professional one (i mean, you get to see how stuffed the public bus is [usually more stuffed]). Gotta love the culture! :D

  • 太TM山寨了

  • 我最讨厌假唱了,还清华呢

  • 说不太坏是出于礼貌

  • 你们太伟大了!!超级喜欢

  • yes///!!

    ALL ASIAN GIRLS ARE PRETTY!

    8-)

  • O.o

  • This is a small world,which is so called "Global town".I love all the friends from abroad,wish you guys like China and enjoy your study here.

  • this is better then the original beacause its ordinary people

  • The girl at :30, 1:27, 1:47 so pretty.

  • yup.. :)

  • not bad not bad

  • luckyy!

    i wanna do this.

  • Genial. Thank you.

  • Thats a interesting composition!!! plz upload more with other versions, it would be even better with your own voice!!

  • I love this! I'm doing an exchange this semester at Tsinghua and it was lovely to see familiar places. I'm also into shooting videos and have joined the Tsinghua TV station... thank you for doing this!

  • 呵呵真不知道你是怎么找到那些外国人的,他们是在清华吗?

    清华...清华...清华???!哇你和那些影片里的人可真厉害­!!!!你们可是中国人里海里挑针选出来的啊!恭喜!

  • Sounds like a lip synchro. Natural acting, though.

  • sure it is.

    But personally,I like it better.

  • very good!

  • Awesome!

  • Most of you didn't actually look like foreigners!!! That was good!!! Boredom makes good things!!!!

  • amazing the best thing.!

  • wow...i think you guys did an amaing job! :-D

  • good work! love china, love beijing =) FOR EVER :D

  • lol y does tsinghua tend not to have pretty girls?? lol, they are pretty tho =P

  • OMGG this is soo good u guys rock!!! wat is tsinghua btw, is it american-chinese school?

  • Tsinghua is one of the top universities in China.

  • good job!!!

  • U GUYS ROCK!!! OMG!!!

    Amazing!!!!!

  • it really good

    and it seem like eveyone had fun doing this

  • I THINK ITS PRETTY GOOD!

  • Good work!

  • you guys are really great!

  • this is cool!!

    do more eps...! :D

  • Love it !!!!!!

    我爱北京!!!

  • Wow I love it! It's so cute haha!

    I love the song and you all fit well in it! 5/5

  • oh, the guy at 1:07-1:12 is HOT!

  • Oh, I should add that the guy who does Jackie Chan's portion at the Great Wall of China is cute. Who is he?! :D

  • me :)

  • lol. :O

  • LOL.

    Surprisingly good. :P

  • Very funny!

  • this version made me laugh...nice job though...i was just comparing from the original version and it was funny...

  • estudantes...

  • hai yo... i will back for memories on oct 08 ...wait for me tsing hua.. i miss my dorm 911 at building 20..

    i miss eat jian bing at the bridge.

    and play bowling too

  • you're coming bak? I'm still at Tsinghua next semester. Email me and we can hook up! :)

  • ah... i am back for travelling, will be in macau on sept 24 and go to tibet, after tibet i will fly to beijing.

    nice to know u that u tsinghua student too..

    u have msn or yahoo?

  • ahhhhhhhhhhh my first teacher when i was in 102 ... at 1: 41

    gosh...really miss her

    she have deep impression in my heart coz she is my first teacher and my chinese improve lot because of her

  • 不错也

  • well done--from a former tsinghua student

  • muy muy buenos

  • 呵呵,清华的女生还不错嘛:)

  • very nice

  • Are those people ur family and friends?

    Good work!!!

  • wow this is wonderfully done

  • this is a REALLY good vid. and it's great how u incorporate English people

  • It was a class in our foreign language class at Tsinghua.

  • Amazing:English subtitle《北京欢迎你 - Beijing welcomes you - 北京歡迎你》

    youtube*.com/watch?v=Skan0yO-q­U8

    Just remove the *

    只要去掉 *

  • awesome

  • It's great. :) Thanks for making it.

  • hao ji le! Me too I heard and watched it too many times during my classes so I am happy to find such a good parody (yes because now I have left China, I miss Beijing huanying ni, even if I heard it too much while being in China!)

  • nice

  • WOW this is awesome!! You guys did a GREAT JOB!!!

  • Haa

  • Great parody! Looked like you guys had lots of fun doing this.