October 1949: The Rise Of Mao Zedong & Communist China
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- Опубликовано: 25 ноя 2024
- On October 1, 1949 Mao Zedong held a victory celebration parade in Tian'amen Square and announced to the world the creation of a People's Republic of China. China had awakened, and the decades since have given truth to Napoleon's prophetic words. Interestingly, very few people actually understood Mao's speech, and only one sentence has ever been translated and synched to audio - until now. October 1949 is a definitive account of how Mao orchestrated and carried out this spectacular parade, all the while facing threats of an on-going civil war. Go behind the scenes of this parade with filmmaker Peter Du Cane as he unearths rare archive footage and pieces together the remainder of this historic speech and makes it whole for the first time ever.
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This channel is an absolute gem and must never come down
Fascinating. Real History, as long as you delete Dan Snow at the beginning.
Lol why u say that.. But yeah I agree the intro is wierd
True!!!
Dont be mean.. lol
Not so fast the intro is awkward but Mr. Snow is cool.
But history hit... Its like the netflix of documentaries
This video was incredibly interesting, the title doesn't do it justice, it makes it sound like just another documentary about Mao. The title should mention the fact that the founding speech of the PRC is reconstructed and heard for the first time since it was recorded
Thank you for teaching me more about China in an hour than I learned in Elementary school, Junior High, Highschool, and college.
Wow. You seem to have been very unlucky in your choice of schools throughout your educational experience.
Brilliant work to find the full text and footage of the 1949 Declaration speech of Chairman Mao
Air force: "I'm about to do what's called a pro gamer move"
*Circles behind formation*
This is the best narrator in the world, just so it is known; he also narrates a FANTASTIC documentary about Puyi (Chinese: 溥儀) also by the documentary maker in this film, Peter du Cain.
I can understand most of Mao's speech. My hometown is about 300 miles away from Mao's. Compared to 70 years ago, Chinese people are not good at understanding speech with strong local accent. Because most people started to learn standard Mandarin when they were kids. They didn't have chance to practice the ability to understand speech with strong accent.
So what were they doing there? A language which can't be understood by most of the people? Were people really happy or it was just happiness imposed on them or something else?
@@anshdangi3603 As I said, if go back 70 years ago, Chinese people were much better at understanding strong accent. I believe most people at the parade were able to understand the speech. Because at that time, most politicians had strong accents. Today's people, especially the younger people from north China, are not so good at it.
China is full of illusion.
You see Wuxia dramas.
heroes fight each other flying.
their Qigong can destroy a house..
it's the first illusion.
the actors travel from Tayli / Dali kingdom far up to the Liao or Jin empire in the north, or western Xia kingdom, just within days. From islands in the China sea to Xi'an takes only several days.
Those are second illusion.
And everywhere people speak Mandarin, or even Cantonese for Wuxia movies produced in 1970s and 1980s.
The heroes could read Chinese characters so easily..
That's the third illusion.
Now the communist create many other illusions...
@@ayi3455 have you woken up from narnia yet?
@@luckydrag7273
Which of my words is wrong....??
Enjoyed watching Li Bude’s face light up when remembering the events of his Youth. What a life he has had
before sometime of 1928, beijing was the original, historical name for the city. KMT changed the name of the city to "bei ping" since its capital was settled at the city of nanjing.
If the outside world would have just left China alone, then they wouldn't be so strong and powerful as they are today. China said enough is enough. Napoleon warned everyone to let China sleep, but no on listened.
The outside world sold them opium.
Noone listened to Napoleon in general; but he remains right in most of his advice even after death. 😆
Apart from his own megalomania; religion still does keep the poor from eating the rich... his army reforms were adopted by everyone else... his "code civil" is the base of many lawbooks nowadays... monarchies faded into unimportance... economy still drives and decides wars... he was a wise man. One more wise man to fall victim to his own narcism; but he had a keen eye for a lot of things.
US is to blame, most investments comes from them.
@@EinFelsbrocken A lot of the world is irreligious. It is questionable whether that has happened.
@@thursoberwick1948 It takes two hands to clap. No buying, no selling.
12:50 Mao's speech on that day was a paragraph of words not just a sentence. Most young people think it was just that one sentence is because for many years we Chinese often quoted that one sentence everywhere in media. "We Chinese people stand up since today."
honestly, even without english subtitles, i can understand 70%~80% mao's speech. well, i was born in 1950s and am familiar with the jargons back to those days. those young people who have good commanding of english and mandarin, but not jargons of that period of time.
Agree with you. Born and raised in Shanghai. Fluent in Shanghai dialect and Mandarin. I could understand most of Mao's speech. Not that difficult for me. However I am having difficulties understanding some people's English, e.g. Indian English since I am mostly used to American English. Same as today's young Chinese people mostly grew up with Mandarin. That's why they couldn't understand some dialects in different parts of China.
I heard from somewhere that it gets worse, and during the last few years of Mao's life, only his personal secretary could understand what the heck he was saying hhh.
Yeah, you don't have to be a brainiac to get the jist.
I am a young guy from Sichuan, but I can understand at least 80% of his speech.
i m sorry to break the truth to you, Mao zedong's speech has more deep meaning than what's shown in the surface, just like an ice berg showing its own peak. You need a philosphy approach to his speech.
An exeptional documentary, thank you!
Chairman Mao had a very heavy accent of his home province, it indeed most of the audience may not be able to understand what he was saying at the time but obviously people trusted him so deeply and they felt so confident by just listening to his voice.😁😁
Absolutely well done and definitely keep it up ❗❗❗👍👍👍👍👍
Nice to have a channel with real historic facts. Too many people are getting their alternative facts from celebrities and other “influencers”.
I like Mao's face expression at the end of the documentary
Well done David Ritchii
A new subscriber to History Hit ot Timeline Channel
I could be incorrect, but I am assuming that the translators had so much difficulty in translating Mao's voice because Chinese is a tonal language, and due to the poor audio fidelity, they had no tones to go off of to derive meaning from.
Chose this video thinking it was about how Mao rose to power. But it was only about the founding ceremony 😣
Kind of a nothing video; there are enough puff pieces about the Great Helmsman already.
There’s so many different variations of Chinese. It’s crazy that the language is extremely diverse within different ethnicities. It’s bound to happen over time though due to isolation from other ethics groups. Words change over time as well!!! Linguistics is fascinating
yups it also happend in Russia, Japan and many country they had many variation of dialect depending on where do you live
That's why China has the common language (普通话 Mandarin Chinese) so people can understand each other.
CCP cover up in my opinion. Whatever Mao is saying must be detrimental to today's CCP narrative. I'm sure plenty of people understand what he was saying.
It’s understandable China is huge - look at india; dozens of languages hundreds of dialects
Mao was not backed by Soviet, kMT was backed by Soviet and America and it still lost. Mao was on his own like Ming Dynasty founding emperor.
"son of a peasant farmer". Land owning families during the Qing were part of the upper-middle to upper class. He came from privilege.
He was still a “peasant farmer” though, not a merchant, government official, or soldier. Peasants could actually be considered well-off in imperial China.
Nah, he was middle-upper-middle class to upper-middle class...
Whatever. Many revolutionaries did come from affluent backgrounds eg Lenin, Zhou Enlai, Castro etc
The peasant thing was made up for propaganda. He didn't want it known that he actually came from landowners.
@make a wish Snow was writing communist propaganda for people outside of China.
Wow...must uncover Mao’s beginning to 1949! Thank you
I just hope all historical documentaries should be at least be accurate as possible just respect to those who came first. Nice Doc. loved it!!
Love the content brother.
Me too I just don’t love the intro
@@giorgibregvadze49er lol…The dude like to make an appearance on every video let’s give him a break he seems cool
Love your videos
Mandarin is actually Beijing dialect，and Chairman Maos accent is more close to southchina accent，as a native speaker from southern china，although i learn Mandarin in primary school ，i can understand maos lecture by listening the more clear sound footage
I have never traveled to CHINA but I like it's people I've had the pleasure of meeting and someday I hope to go to Beijing china and discovering all its wonders.......
there are alot of great places in china. Its in insane huge country. was there 2 times already and going for the next time the pandemic is over.
My go to history Channel
he is a philosophy,stratejist,leader,no match in last 100 years china
Nice Lancaster I’ve always wanted to fly in one
I’ve watched so many of these docs and they are great!!! And it’s even better skipping through this cat at the start EVERY singe time 😂😂😭😭
The Beginning Of The Rising Of The Fiery Dragon..
One hornet nest which we should not have kicked. Considering the fact that Trump antagonized all of America’ allies, I cannot see them backing the states unless Americans can agree on who one the election very soon.
@@georgesnarbonne2892 "we"? you aren't American
@@wolfofmagdeburg I think we are on the same team. Atlantic Canada has and always will have close ties New England. We give Boston a Christmas tree every year to acknowledge their crucial role after the Halifax fire in 1917.
If a movie can be made from October 1st. event. IT WOULD BE AWESOME.
so informative . thank you. pls do one on Jinping as well. thank you.
the intro was insane🤩🤩
This kind of documentaries i figured that make envy to the created
For all of Mao's faults, he was the one responsible for freeing China from foreign oppression, eliminating opium addiction and criminal gangs, and practically doubling literacy in under a decade - these are feats that can't be overlooked, no matter how much criticism the later years of his rule gets.
He eliminated addiction killing the addicts, efficient method indeed.
I mean despite all of the tens of millions of dead due to Mao's tyrannical rule the trains run on time.
He did not free China from oppression, the nationalist defeated the Japanese then the CCP created present day oppression of Chinese people
@make a wish LoL.
@@clivebaxter6354 seems like you are brain washed
Very good!
Much respect for China successfully fending of western imperialism, a profoundly difficult achievement. Look at the result of the other major regions that failed in this regard (Africa, India, even aboriginal Australia, etc). Respect to Mao and vast bulk of the ordinary population for protecting China from outside interference. Mao also did the forgotten but crucial work of rural health development programmes saving 100 million lives, and bringing literacy from 15% to 90% by the time Mao retired. Life expectance from 45 to 70. This liberation from Western interference set the conditions to make their industrialisation that followed, and continued improvements to their public's life, being possible.
China has risen with the WEST help, it was the plan of the people behind COMMUNISM. This was not about China only, this regime is a dragon created to devour the world.
But only heading for demographic disaster !!
Documentary skips over cities Mao starved into submission. It is why capital surrendered without a fight. Mao killed off about 10% of the Chinese population before his death. Liberation period (civil war), Great Leap Forward, and Cultural Revolution cost the lives of 10s of millions of Chinese in each period of Mao's reign.
@@stevelenores5637 Steve where are the Indians in USA and Canada ?
@@ZaidKhan-dc4wo I'm one of them. What is it you wanted to know? I happen to be in New Mexico.
Chairman MAO gave a very good and inspiring speech. And after all the people of CHINA have been through up until that point (with more to come), you can understand why they were so happy in this moment in time. Great documentary!!!!
How long has Dan been in this bloody plane?!
Nevermind the plane, he's been standing in front of Stonehenge in too tight pants for quite a while as well 😅
Disgusting to see how reverential these people are to the greatest mass murderer in history.
Definitely not just "following orders" ... That's the typical excuse
in that case you shall define "revere"
@@Malikin Just compare how they portray Hitler's Nazis that killed 20 million people to Mao and Stálin's Communists that killed close to 100 million people if not more.
You guys are being self-righteous as if you would be different if you were their place? People aren’t born angels or devils.
Thank God the Republic of China is still a free and democratic nation 🇹🇼✌🏽☘
中国人民从此站起来了！
The Chinese people hence forth will stand and be the master of their destiny!
Honestly, this one of the best documentry I see bc on other social Media, people are making inappropriate jokes on China that is unbearable. China is always the country that is underated, with people not knowing its history.
No joke is inappropriate. Thats the beauty of freedom.
@@TylerLyon sorry freedom only caus civil wars and destruction
Yale chose him, Stalin chose him, even the US government chose to work with him instead of helping his rivalry eliminate him, there must be something more in Mao beside being a brutal opportunist
Japan's competition to the west over the pacific theater.
the Chinese people chose him
@@duansteve3698 and they paid for it.
Thank you for the efforts to recover the whole speech. It is the first time in my life listened to the whole speech. Mao is a great diplomatic person. Thanks again.
"Mao created a new regime that the world would be forced to accept" anglos still salty that the Chinese never sought permission from them in creating a new gov 😆😂
yeah it's pretty thick.. the british empire gave birth to mao.
Mao was an evil dictator that slaughtered and enslaved his own people
Ask who Hong Kongers would prefer to live under.
Mao or the British?
Wow. How insanely stupid and racist at the same time. Not very insightful there, little guy.
We’re salty he only killed tens of millions of his citizens.
One of my favorite sayings: "Mao built the foundation; Deng built the house. Now Xi is making the house beautiful!"
Chairman Mao speech was aided by the prepared script which he was holding. Didn't the script been archived by PRC??
do not be stupid,the poem mao wrote no one else in china had the ability to write out.you know nothing
Its amazing👏👏👏👏
I don't think people quite understand how amazing this must have been for the people to see this parade when they did.
Just a few years ago, the Chinese were literally charging Japanese machine guns and tanks with little more than swords, just fighting tooth and nail in the most literal sense to survive a foreign occupation. Most of the population have never seen a Tank or a Plane until a Japanese machine rolled through or over their homes and families.
And suddenly, they have their own army, ever soldier armed with a rifle. They have tanks. And they think they have an air force and navy, which were really works in progress but a good show.
Also by killing 50+ million of it's own people, most without any party affiliation. Just because you're educated, own land or money you were systematically murdered.
@@heic1971 That is an ignorant oversimplification of what happened. A more accurate way to described what happened next was that Mao was a military leader but inept at running a country, leading to a 2nd Civil War within the Party that caused widespread chaos and famine.
@@1Invinc sure, like how mao told people to openly criticize him to run the country better, then rounded up and execute all who disagreed with him? Or that he made everyone that own any wealth being hunted down? My grand parents were hunted have siblings caught and hung. Their crime? They had a farm and money.
China is great, ccp is the curse, you are here commenting on RUclips guessing you’re not in China facing the restrictions like the rest of them by your cult party.
@@heic1971 A reformed KMT, backed by the US in the civil war, would have been a much better solution than Chairman Mao replicating Stalin's mistakes from Russia (he even used some of the same terminology "Great Helmsman"), but Owen Lattimore, John Service and John Patton Davies could not allow that. A lot of Chinese (millions) died for nothing and the China we know now was created by Deng Xiaoping. Before the wing flapping starts, my entire in-law family is Chinese, including my father in-law who is a retired party member. I learned all of this from the inside.
Quick, watch it now before it's taken down...
For real though.
Don't understand Mao's fascination with the title "Chairman", could've just used 'President'.
Chairman Mao probably wanted a title that contrasted with the title for other leaders such as the General Secretary of the USSR or the President of USA
chairman is the same as president in Chinese lol
@@CyJacky12 no, chairman literally means someone holds the chair in Chinese too which is 主席；while president means someone decides everything which is 总统
Thank you
dope video
From 1949 to 2020, Chinese people’s life expectancy increased from 41 to 78 years; literacy rate jumped from 15% to 99%, children’s immunization rate went up from 1% to nearly 100%. More than 800 million people were lifted out of poverty. Homelessness is none existent, because over 90% of the people own their own homes and there is no property tax. College education is very affordable ( a few hundred dollars a year) and free for students from poor families, as a result, there’s considerable upward mobility in the Chinese society. China is not perfect, but it is a much more fair society than the West.
Westerners don't care about this. Most of them are very ignorant about China and Chinese people. In general, racism is very real and they still believe Communism is the root of all evil.
@@abeu communism bad and no westerners are not ignorant. The one who is ignorant here is YOU
the university fee is about one thousand now.
And now, if Xi Jinping would only die tomorrow, China would be even better, and Shanghai could get back to more normal living and working. Down with the CCP, and all Mao Lovers like Xi. May CCP sleep 10,000 years!
I doubt that all the millions of Chinese that died would see it that way.
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Mao's Leadership Style is a key symbol for current Chinese Leaders
Mao provided the model of party leadership, Deng Xiaoping provided the structure of government administration, Zhou Enlai remains the prototype of diplomacy.
That is an insult to the current leaders because Mao was a psychopath killer playing off one group against another to maintain his iron grip on power. Though you may be right to some extent because Xi has shown his ruthless side from time to time.
I was shocked all those translators could not understand Mao's speech. Interesting.
That’s weird, I come from Sichuan, but I still understand most of Mao’s words.
Pathetic
Probably because of the audio quality of the record, just like people may not fully understand the announcements at airports or train stations.
Then the great leap forward happens.
"In the end Mao's face says it all". Yeah, it's called Duper's Delight.
It isn't 'Duper's Delight'. Don't make fool of yourself.
These collective memories bring me into tears
So many big mistakes in this documentary. First it wasn't as USSR supported CCP, and US supported Guomindang, in fact both of them supported Guomindang. CCP participation in repealing Japanese was insignificant, it wasn't like they were united with Guomindang.
The Communists and the Nationalists united to fight the Japanese invasion, what are you talking about?
@@miniflem1 No, Mao's army was hiding while Guomindang resisted.
@@XOPOIIIO But they had a truce with each other, you don't know what you're talking about.
@@miniflem1 They had truce with Guomindang as well as de facto with Japanese, lol.
@@XOPOIIIO Could you provide a link to your source?
What? I can understand 90% what he said here, why do you guys keep saying you don't understand what he said?
Because they're 南郭先生
Great video. Why is the narrator so sleepy?
He was not a peasant's son, his father was a landlord.
a small landlord, still peasant, just richer than normal peasant. they still did farming by themsevles.
in fact, after giving the speech, Mao published the whole speech on the newspaper. maybe you can get the full text on that day's newspapers, such as 人民日报。it will help your team to understand his words in the vedio
The biggest assassin of all times.
fuuny mud pee
@@yLouis-yv9mq you’re delusional
Kill all landlords
He decided to flex his muscle after the bombings of Japan. They were scared to death of the Japanese.
Now a days Japan in hentai and colony of usa
I wouldve been scared too. They may have been defeated; but the horrors of war (the horrors that were cauded by Japanese at least) still happened only a few years back.
@@EinFelsbrocken I'ts insane
Timeline has turned into clickbait. This video is not about the rise of Mao, it's about a parade in 1949. I'm done with Timeline, annoying Dan Snow, and all their misleading titles.
I will recommend you a good channel called 李肅Hi5第一頻道, made by a Chinese person. The Chinese man has been studying and exposing the real history of the Chinese Communist Party and its top members.
@@young5969 Not everything is real in any history written by men. People always try to bring their own opinions into their writings to influence readers, no matter how subtle they are.
Does this cover the $2T in defaulted sovereign debt that China owes Americans?
Not even close
how much has their virus cost the world?
Considering that the “Spanish flu” originated in the US, it would make a calculation of who owes what.
@@georgesnarbonne2892 The Spanish flu originated in China, it's an old theory it started in the US, brought there by Chinese workers
www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/140123-spanish-flu-1918-china-origins-pandemic-science-health
@@clivebaxter6354 Not THEIR virus!!! The Lab was sponsored by the REAL Axis of Evil, the good ol' U.S.A.
The TRUTH will out!!!
Mao represented a different wing of communism With a raunch confrontation policy with the Soviet block and the West.
This looks good.
fantastic, i'm amazing by this documentary. congratulations.
What's the background instrumental music that starts at: 2:01? And towards the end at 50:35? Thanks!
Mao Zedong was speaking in tongues you know, like the priests use to do with Latin. Only God can understand it 🤷🏿♂️
If only the KMT had finished off the communists before the Japanese invaded.
That were too corrupt to finish anyone. The PLA fought the Japanese
@@georgesnarbonne2892 Yes, they fought the Japanese, but the KMT forces did most of the fighting.
@@Doochos sorry but Chang kaishik has 3 times more of order about terminate communist than fight Japanese and the United States government did think seriously about abandoned the KMT and turn to support communist party.
And there’s no “if only”, cause KMT and their warlords are not even in a same rope.
@@blackcatpack sorry but I don't understand everything you typed. There is an if only, because it's an if only sentence.
Obviously the western jourlist was fooled by his Chinese colleague. I was born in 70s and foreign to Hunan dialects, but am able to understand at least half of the speech.
Brilliant video!
Seriously? These English-speaking translators can't understand MAO Zedong? I can understand 90% of it 😂
No comment about him being part of the Yale club?
why does the presenter make his announcement from a cockpit?🤔
Cause he is flying into history 😳
@@drsin6856 👏😄
The whole "how we found this" part is drawn out and a little lame. Made me lose interest. I'm here to learn about Mao, not learn about you learning about Mao.
Interesting history
The Chinese can fully understand it, but the sound quality is too poor.
I am from Hunan province, China.
I can understand what Chairman Mao said.
Plz next Epistle - China- vietnam war
Mao: one of the greatest monsters in history.
Correction. That would be Donald Trump.
@@georgesnarbonne2892 Donald Trump can't be, no Fascist monster could hold power in a democratic state. On the other hand, the Chinese Communist totalitarianism produced millions and millions of those terrible living beings with propaganda of extreme nationalism and mutual-hatred atmosphere.
@@pikachu-chan8893 Moa divided and demonized by class; modern democrats are dividing and demonizing by race sexuality and gender. Stop watching CNN it is rotting your brain.
Over and out.
@@riffcrescendo1740 CNN is not the only media corporation in USA, just like the socialist ideology is not the only school in USA. Democracy ensured diversity without uniformity - people could complain, shout and rage to make the government and the society to hear your voice through senators, political parties, associations, all sorts of media tools, and....your vote, of course.
But the Communist hates "discord" and wants everything under control with nothing keeping them at bay. You won't be even able to make your dissident voice sound in that totalitarian country. Whereas, in USA, you're given such an opportunity to criticize all those injustices.
This is the difference between democracy and dictatorship.
@@pikachu-chan8893 Yes. Absolutely! If one is to be inclusive, that includes everybody, Everybody regardless of race,sexuality, gender, political leanings and whatever religion they are domiciled into. Even Trump supporters.
Ya boi Mao coming straight from the underground
This same square truned into a scene of massacre 50 yrs later in 1989. As a Chinese, I'll never forget the atrocities perpetrated by the CCP.
差不多得了
Wonder how the world would have turned out if Chiang had actually done an air raid during this speech.
Open for business. Really interesting.
the topic is stupid. I have no problem understanding what chairman Mao was saying (I’m not from Hunan). The Chinese you are working with are just making you happy by going alone with your opinion.
They weren't going along with him they were useless at translations
If only there had been comprehensive land reform like Britain did in Ireland in the late 19th and early 20th century, carried out in the country -side in China, Mao would never have come to power The Communist land reform was a monstrous trick. Unfortunately the illiterate peasants fell for the Marxist deceit. The peasants even today are still not allowed to own their own land.Unfortunately the peasants did not realise that under Communism no private property is allowed. They would now become serfs of the state
There was many injustices in the rural areas, the abuse of power by the landlords over the peasants. The lesson is give the peasants ownership of their own land, and the Marxists will never be able to subvert the country -side.
Interesting
Here”s to Chairman Mousy Dung
Two 19 second adds before this starts thumbs down ... unwatchable God only knows how many more there are..
Biggest mass-murderer in history.