Peking - The Imperial City 1930

A tour of the Chinese city of Peking (Beijing)in the 1930s. Footage from this film is available for licensing from www.globalimageworks.com

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Travel & Events

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• Beijing
• Peking
• Peiping
• China
• james
• Fitzpatrick
• stock
• footage
• 1930
• 1930s
• travelogue
• pan
• central
• train
• station
• tram
• streetcar
• pedestrians
• crowded
• streets
• ricksaws
• beggars
• poor
• homeless
• child
• street
• sprinklers
• Forbidden
• City
• gates
• temples
• Temple
• of
• Heaven
• shrine
• old
• priest
• Altar
• barber
• traditional
• haircut
• Summer
• Palace
• Winter
• railway
• women
• walking
• with
• bound
• feet
• mules
• packs
• Great
• Wall

[eddielung31]

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

[xbl2010]

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

[doobaay1]

เป็นประเทศที่ประชาชนต้องประสบก­ับชะตากรรมและมากด้วยเรื่องราวท­ี่สุด...

[WuBingWay]

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

[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.

[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.

[BainDH]

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

[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.

[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. :)