Peking - The Imperial City 1930

[doobaay1]

เป็นประเทศที่ประชาชนต้องประสบก­ับชะตากรรมและมากด้วยเรื่องราวท­ี่สุด...

[BainDH]

Wonderful documentary! The narrator could have done a wonderful W.C. Fields impression with just a little adjustment.

[gonojaja]

I like the smiling face of the barbar.

[txvoltaire]

They don't know that they're about to die many years later, do they?

nguyenkhan202 3 months ago

--Nor does anyone else!

[easysimple1011]

Only Emperor Qin Shi Huang --Ying Zheng can stop the Mongolians.And he knew how strong they are before and how to prevent them. :)

[WuBingWay]

幹妳娘支那人 Peking就Peking，怎樣自尊心脆弱就改成Beijin­g?? 真他媽可悲的一廢物！ 英文 China還可以翻譯成中國？他媽英文學到哪裡去了？ 是孫文講的支那不是中國更不是美洲大陸。

[rushius]

@WuBingWay How about you learn your own history, it's only called Beijing because of Mandarin Chinese which is only about 700 years old. The major spoken languages in the past were all Cantonese related and in these languages it sounds more like Puck King which was commonly written as Peking. You complain about others not knowing Chinese history but you don't know it either.

[WuBingWay]

@rushius Oh , everything you've said is true despite the fact that Chinese lack self-esteem, over.

[Microglia1]

If I were these people, I'd be planning for evacuation asap. the japs are coming!!!

[nogarday]

All Chinese people should thank 'reform and opening up policies' for bring modern thought and science to the old kindome .Without seclusion,China has been changed maganificantly over the last 30 years

[HappyOwen1992]

@nogarday

We should thanks Dengxiaoping 

[rushius]

@nogarday The only reason they needed to "open up" was because Mao screwed them up so bad. Imagine if the Communists lost the civil war, then China would have been "opened up" for 60 years, not 30 years. And they DO thank Deng Xiaoping, every single Chinese man woman and child goes through the exact same education system where they are FORCED to to 'thank' them.

[nogarday]

thank 'reform and opening up policies' for bring modern thought and science to the old kindome 

[nguyenkhan202]

They don't know that they're about to die many years later, do they?

[xbl2010]

I love that guy at the funeral waving at the camera...he will always be remember hahaha

[PinkSkiiTtLeZzYoanNa]

@xbl2010 epic win. if you hadn't pointed that out, i probably would've thought "hm weird" and then i'd forget about it.

[squreshi10]

Love that guy at 1:41, he's all like NI HAO!!!!!

[kludge11]

Every word slobbering out of this white pig narrator is dripping with a sense of superiority and mocking. Glad hes dead by now.

[saadownz]

that helped alot in essays thx man :D

[tibet4504]

自由西藏，中國出西藏。中國剛剛回到你的土地，我們不需要你的幫­助。自由西藏

Free Tibet . We don't need your help, just go back to your own land . Tibet is not part of china .

[jingjincsh2009]

@tibet4504 do you stand for the majority of tibetans? prove it if you can

[lyceefruit]

@tibet4504. Tibe has been freed decades ago! Talking about freedom shouldn't the Dalai Lama be imprisoned for his role in human rights violations, serfdom, prevented literacy of women and downright hypocricy? Seriously don't forget that Tibet was no Shangri La before it was liberated by the Chinese. Tibet is and will always be a part of China - at least the Chinese are making Tibetan life more bearable than when the Lama induced forced serfdom!!

[DeathToNeoCons]

@lyceefruit

@lyceefruit

Yeah yeah right...you hypocrite. Life was incredibly "bearable" for the Tibetans and even the Han Chinese peasants when Mao Zedong introduced COLLECTIVIZATION which is just a Communist term for serfdom. Don't try to tell me that Mao's "great leap forward" was "bearable" when 30 million Chinese died because of famine because of Mao's own version of serfdom. The Dalai Lama never accomplished such massive famines.

[DeathToNeoCons]

@lyceefruit

Are you trying to convince us that the destruction of 99% of all Buddhist monasteries and temples in Tibet by the Chinese Red Guards in the 60s was a "liberation" for the Tibetan people? This is absolutely depraved and sick. If you want to "liberate" people from oppression, you don't destroy their holy sites or force their peasants to work in collective farms.

[FyzikalKemizt]

@tibet4504 You are not a tibetan so piss off, I have been to Tibet and seen the improvements. If you love Dalai Lama so much then go to India and join his gang of slaveowners.

[IRG]

Wonderful to see Beijing of 60 odd years ago.  Of all the places I've lived Beijing is one of my favourites.

[askjiir]

China was clearly less modern than japan at that time. I guess the japanes exploited that weakness when the invaded.

[joeymasong]

however beijing its now the capital of the peoples republic of china founded in october 1st a.d. 1949 under the communist regime by the chairman mao zedong

[EPsuperFan]

这就是祥子时候的北京阿，太感动了！thanks for posting

[AncientDinoShark]

why do the narrator think its pathetic that 1/5 of the population lives in china

[Phead128]

@AncientDinoShark. because a lot of poor people are in china and china represents a big population fo the world.

So what he is saying that is pathetic is that much of the world at that time period was poor. Understand?

[MrBrianxie]

i think the video taker was very excited when getting on the great wall

[voyager01]

Another prove that Tibet was a part of China

[joydivisionfanboy]

Tibet was part of Yuan and Qing Empire just as Hong Kong was part of the British Empire. It is a little hypocritical to hold onto Tibet whilst claiming Hong Kong

[Phead128]

@joydivisionfanboy...

Well, the victor typically makes any claims they want about the present and past histories of a conquered nation.

That's typically how life works... Victor declares the spoils. No point to logically argue against what the victor says.

[joydivisionfanboy]

True, although British had to return HK to China, maybe China should at least consider allowing greater autonomy by operating two systems one country like with HK and Macau

[Phead128]

@joydivisionfanboy.

I agree, Tibet should operate under the Special Administrative Region (SAR) model like HK, Macau, and proposed for Taiwan (reunification under the SAR model) in which Taiwan preserves everything (including the military) but gives up sovereignty and diplomatic recognition rights. It still retains it's capitalistic economy tho.

[FyzikalKemizt]

@joydivisionfanboy Yuan and Qing Empire was loyal to China and served China, otherwise they would have divided China long time ago.

[DreamsofMajesty]

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[invincible0624]

china is basicly a superpower now

[loveforchina]

Today is communist China, it is only a shadow of China's past.

[betalover1]

China today is MUCH MUCH better than China in the 1930's.

This is partly because the whole world, the West, has allowed China to be better since the 1970's, and Japan lost the war.

Belief in international trade is another major reason.

A debatable point can be made if China was worse in 1959 than in 1930's, but I think China was better even in 1959 than in the 1930's.

[drbuddha]

ya thats an understate...its like two different worlds...I'm very impressed in my last visit spring 08, seeing these old pics I am shocked at the change!

[loveforchina]

At that time China was a capitalist nation. Today China is a repressive and dictatorial communist regime.

[ppw8626]

lol capitalist? so what? does capitalist=good? you sentences don't make sense.

[bigfatdick5000]

2:37 That's the Tiananmen Square !! Look carefully it still doesn't have the Mao portrait hung up there yet.

[luckybeanbalei]

@bigfatdick5000 this is a photo, can't u see?

[boobooberry]

Lol the guy at 1:42! Stealing spotling was already existant in China 1930 xD

[eddielung31]

For a 1930 documentry, this is an exceptionally positive comment on China.

[askjiir]

@eddielung31

Why should it be negative?  China wasn't communist before 1949 . . .

[fedinhorax]

@askjiir

because in the 1930's europeans thought of themselves of the best, the creme de la creme :P

the second world war took away any of that thought what the first world war did't

[fuckwarandfuckyou]

@eddielung31 well, the communist revolution happened in 1949, dumbass.

[Microglia1]

What about "this old man relfects the age of the wall itself?" That's hilarious LMAO

[Bloodlovefreak]

The contrast between the rich Chinese and poor Chinese is very clearly shown.

[Ganeschar]

but now is the same gape between rich and poor.

[cuteameri]

It is an age when the army of Chiang Kai-shek slaughtered a lot of foreigners.

Especially, damage happened frequently to the foreigner who resided in China.

[eddielung31]

@cuteameri no, much earlier, in the 1890s

[wuxichang]

啊~~是这样的么？？？

[lonelywarrior777]

Wow! What history and I am not living too far from where this was taken! Incidently, I'm American!

[chowsiumanchowsiuman]

China in 1930 is much better than nowadays, at least no communist devil, and there's much more freedom in 1930's China.

[chowsiumanchowsiuman]

When the freedom can come back to China again?

[chenyun01]

I REALLY WANT KMT CAN COME BACK !!!

[cho0730]

Yes ! I love KMT !!

[honey2944]

You mean when the westerners and Japs can take bits of China again? Stupid colonial dog. I dont like PRC government, but I hate colonial asslicker even more.

[bigfatdick5000]

I support your comment to the 1000th degree.

[diromeo]

Thank you for posting all these films on the net. They are all very important documentaries.

[rickinchina06]

humpingbird: STFU. It probably was Chinglish. So what? Acknowledging that China was more advanced than the West at one time is quite progressive given the film's release date.

Is it just me or is the narrator W.C. Field's brother?

And what's with this droll organ music? Are we at a funeral?

[akoitosan]

hehehe made me laugh. but if you watch silent movies they always use this organ music. and the voice of the narrator is always the same. but i love this piece of old film.

[humpingbird]

Hints of arrogance - The chinese guy spoke to us in broken but eloquent English.

[ponomariev]

What a great piece of film! Love it.