🇨🇳 China's Replica English Village.. 🇬🇧
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- I explored the so called 'ghost town' on the outskirts of Shanghai, China.
Thames Town, located in the Songjiang District of Shanghai, is a meticulously crafted replica of a traditional English village. Completed in 2006, it features cobblestone streets, Tudor-style buildings, a Gothic church, and red telephone booths. Despite its picturesque charm and authentic British architecture, Thames Town is often misunderstood and mislabeled as a 'ghost town' by Western media. In reality, it serves as a popular backdrop for wedding photography, a residential area, and a tourist attraction. This video explores the true essence of Thames Town, dispelling myths and showcasing the vibrant life and community that thrives within this unique Shanghai neighborhood.
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people think it's extraordinary that China can build British looking cities.. but the truth is there's lot of British looking building already in down town Shanghai along the bund in front of the Huangpu river some of them are a hundred years old.. and nobody says anything when the British build Indian looking building like the Georgian Brighton pavilion with Chinese interior or the pagoda at Kew garden.. there hundred more oriental building in London and all over Europe.. how come everything is so one sided..
那是英租界，法租界的遗留。这个是新建的不一样。
There’s a PAGODA in a Garden somewhere,in London I think?🤔
The Chinese do things on a grander or bigger scale. (+ a replica PARIS). TBH they do have the space.. 😀
Not all Chinese are rich or got time& money to take whole family to Europe... so, I guess this is the next best thing.. ☺️
Much better than the real UK - that's for sure ! No tents, trash, grafiiti, needles or stab victime here : )
No, not better you twat. Tents? Graffiti? Are you one of of those cherrypicking numpties?
Stab victims? Unlike Chinese mass stabbings that continually happen
Tents in uk? Very rare you numpty
Graffiti? Hardly any graffiti .
What happened 5 days ago in China? Cheek talking about stab victims
Would be a great place for filming motion pictures requiring a UK feel. Cheers from Edmonton Alberta Canada.
I think they do that often here!
Would they have to bring the homeless people to make it look realistic?
@JohnSmith-sm7ez "What nobody told you about the UK reality" -- put that in youtube search ... London looks like a rubbish tip - see for yourself ...
Really? I've been to London many times, and it's a great city. Definitely a party town.
@@davidgmaloofnot so much anymore, I literally just read a tweet about a guy describing how London has now become a bit of a ghost city. Wait for my upcoming videos in London
@@Harveyinchina That's unfortunate. Of the five best Margaritas I've had in my life, TWO were in London. Coming from a Texan, that's quite the compliment. Unfortunately, I never could get a decent Margarita in China. Something to do with the availability of Mexican limes. China has been in the doghouse ever since. :)
@@davidgmaloofJust because of margaritas? A bit harsh isn't it? 🤣
@@VerkaterterStiefel Imperialism stole a whole lot from the world, then squandered that ill-gotten gain on an attempt at hegemony leaving its own people to rot, So everyone except the tiny tiny elite has been wasted over many decades and now that the people have had enough of this intensely evil regime, they start to cry foul - how absurd !
Brother, FAKE is disrespectful plz use INSPIRED instead. Thanks for the amazing stuffs you post. Keep it up!
Replica
Right. “Fake” comes across as a bit negative.😊Replica is just ok.
Click bait for sure!!he know what he's doing..more views if u post negative stuff about China👀
It’s fake. Straight up copied.
@ 1:06 this is like a normal Sunday in Germany, nobody is around.
I have met a young couple in Thailand recently. They were from US and flow to Singapore and they were traveling from Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and then to Cambodia and Vietnam and before going back to US.
We have happened to have a casual friendly conversation and I have asked them since they are so near to China, why not go to China just for a few days to see China. I told them China is very interesting. But I was surprised of what they told me.
They said according to all their media reports in US and advice by their government and many other people. They were advice and told not to travel to China. Even their parents don't allow them to go to China. They were told China is not a safe country to travel. Very dirty, poor rundown infrastructures, poor transportation system, polluted, homeless people are everywhere waiting to rob tourists are common even in broad daylight. Chances of been detained for no reason by the Communist government is very high. Because China is an authoritarian state and all foreign visitors are monitored by thousands of cameras everywhere and every minute where foreign visitors go. Foreign visitors from western countries can be detained for months or even years for no reason.
All these is what they know about China. The couple is like below 25 years of age and already so badly brainwashed by their government and controlled media. This is really sad.
Wow, they know nothing. Do they even know how to use youtube and google? 😂 They can easily see videos of the real China.
@@Comrade_Broski If they never click on anything about China, RUclips never show them the real China. I feel so sad for them. 😂
Little kids should not be allowed to travel alone.
Are you sure, they were talking about China 😎 Their description sounds like California…
Did you at least correct them?
Awesome clip.. question here, i don't see anything fake ..!! Hahaaa❤😂
Far cleaner and more civilized than UK has ever been.
Mmmm...tell me, when was the last time a UK government killed, through murder or incompetence, 100 million of its own citizens? China has done that. And if they did it once, their "great" culture is capable of doing it again.
It needs some cultural enrichment... but according to Western media, PRC government is evil and doesn't let rapefugees in.
Check the food, water and pollution levels. Look at AQI levels. in Shanghai over a 24 hour / week / year period and China as a whole. They are above 100-200 24 hours a day almost. This is extreme madness, you might as well start smoking there it's that bad. I feel sorry for children living in China getting asthma and respiratory problems. I hope China stops building 12 new coal power stations minimum per year for their peoples and the world's sake.
@@jonlott3147 food is fantastic, lived there for more than six months and there was no issues unlike I had in India. Asthma is a worldwide phenomenon and its as prevalent in the US as its elsewhere.
Do you also called Chinese Garden or China Town, Japanese garden etc in western countries fake China Town or Japanese garden ?
exactly! 😂 i was about to write the same thing. it's the same with the migrant worker. the west call others migrant workers, yet they call themselves expats when working abroad😂
That was calls double standard, they can do it, no to Chinese.
Very cool! I would love to live there! Is the cathedral a real place of worship?
Yes! I believe so, and all the people outside were there to pray
i like the closing statement😅👍
When you have 1.4 billions of human with different individual tastes and styles, why not a small town to just take a picture if money is not an issue?
I think it’s a beautiful idea
Judging from the comments, Thames in China is better than Thames in the Uk.
Thank you for sharing.
My pleasure!
cleaner and safer than UK!
A well maintained ghost town? These might be second or third homes for rich Shanghai people. They just visit them one in a while.
I remember last time western media call it a 'knock off' europe
Usually people move out of city centre to find cheaper living places but if it costs a lot more to live out there then it’s not appealing to Chinese
Your parting words…"The only thing they couldn't replicate, however, seems to be the crime." …what a gem😂😂
do you want jammed packed people on top of you?? That town is just fine.
I love the weather in the UK, in fact I love the rain and the foggy look. When I watched the movie Jane Eyre, I liked the environment there.
great for gardening
You must also like Jack the Ripper.😂
I wonder if it would be possible for foreigners like myself to purchase an apartment there. Start up a cafe or something.
its open for business few do
Really nice video. What's the name of the soundtrack?
I’ll find it for you
Europe has the advantage of cultural soft power. You can talk about how "safe" and "civilised" China is, but it will never influence the world like Europe did in its prime. Tyranny is enabled by obedience and obsession over 'safety', which enables higher government control.
why not U visit Huawei head Tel centre in Shenzhen , really like Oxford town😂
Very well made video!
More of a theme park.
Damn, it's those little details that make or break an illusion...but I'm sure people can overlook the crime detail. LOL,
Not a fan of these copycat towns, but it's the only way you're going to get an English-looking town that isn't rife with crime, grafitti and homelessness.
The overcast makes it more London!
wait for the winter and snow. 😂
Watching from Toronto Canada
Cleaner & safer than any UK town/city.
good bacmground music
all bgm s are good
These replica town can be use as a movie set
Not realy fake just similar looking 😂
Exactly! Yet every news report calls it a ‘fake British town’! Google it, it’s so strange!
Oh wow! Nice place...
Well for the English Homeless, a place to go lol
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I lived close by may 5/10 minutes away. It's just a holiday destination that's sometimes busy at the weekend. Pollution there and mid / north china in general is over 100 aqi 247 and usually over 200 aqi. That itself is mind blowing and makes you ill. It is also increasing with the 1 coal power station being built every 1.5 months. On the face of it china is alright but the constant smoking of nearly every male, the lack of general hygeine amd cleanliness plus the massive 247 aqi levels makes it a disaster. Anywhere I. Europe even being homeless would be far healthier and I'm heavily neutral on the matter.
I had been to a similiar little town, known as Thames Town, somewhere near Hangzhou.
The UK should be grateful to China for "portraying" a pretty scene to give tourists such a good impression of the West! 🎉
In UK u get rob in a similiar setting
What about the Church? Could you go inside? Were there people inside and services? I noticed the cross on top, but is it just for show?
The reason for the ghost town is for a reason. In case if there is a war, natural disaster, people have a place to go.
To me, it's way better to have some ghost town rather than thousands of homeless people on the street. 安得广厦千万间，大庇天下寒士俱欢颜
Bonkers! a bit 'uncany valley' but fascinating!
Glad to see they prepared a place in advance for the westeem refugees that will be leaving their countries when shtf.
Wow, wonderful😂😂😂😂thought it is uk
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Where're the zombies? 🤔🤔🤔🤔
Very beautiful and well built town in the suburb of Shanghai, China 🇨🇳
Certainly cleaner that its counterpart in the UK.
fast pace violin performance
Sans human rights!
So CCP 😊!
This place looks nice
Chinatown, Thames Town, Paris...sounds familiar😅
Didn't China have Paris and Disneyland ?
China is Beautiful
The crime. Lol
the landmark of uk colonialism
wonder whats inside the buildings? 🤔
ita a residential project
It is not 'fake' as there was a British concession in Shanghai during the Qing Dynasty. It was built by the British not Chinese developers. There is also another British concession in Guangzhou (Canton) during the Qing Dynasty. The Paris Eiffel Tower is fake built by Chinese developers near Hangzhou, I think.
English villages/towns are just as busy. They’re at home or out of town
you are in front of the marriage registry on saturday！thats absolutely empty.
Looks interesting! Love to explore the place as well at some point.
China is too great
哈哈哈homes are for you to live in. Once, speculated and manipulated, it’s game over.
The only thing they couldnt replicate however seems to be the crime.. all they need is to have their own Windrush and wait 40 years..
Excellent video, young man. The drone footage is phenomenal. Beautiful city. Now come to India. It is much cleaner than China.
Lmfao good joke !
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Is there good street food?
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Serious Question Harvey:
Did you grow up in a rough part of the UK or are you influenced by western media?
When I go back to my home village near Southampton there's little to no crime -- can't recall ever actually seeing crime growing up in UK.
But of course we see it blasted all over the media.
Now, friends in Manchester couldn't even walk down the street without worrying -- hence my question.
My Chinese experience is that I didn't see crime, except when someone stole my wife's moped from Wanda -- in the moped parking spot.
And crime isn't mentioned in the media, it's very positive media -- which is a good reinforcement for Chinese people.
But, speak Chinese and really get into deep conversations with Chinese and you soon start discovering other crimes -- take for example, a mother who is crying about a kindergarten using gutter oil where her child attends (true story)
Chinese people aren't violent. And tend not to steal.
But fake products (I'm not talking counterfeit), and gutter oil is a serious problem.
Please learn the language. And explore the depths of Chinese psyche.
While I agree on the whole it generally has moved in a good direction, your smugness about "no crime" tells me you are still shallow in this culture.
Money is god in China -- This can leads to crime
I think I’m at the point now where no media could influence me.
As for your village near Southampton, I guess it’s Fareham, Buelieu, Havant, or somewhere along the New Forest? These are very affluent upper middle class areas, that of course aren’t prone to too much crime, thanks in part to many positive socioeconomic factors.
However, if you were to walk into Southampton city centre, you would be exposed to crime. There’s no doubt about it. People injecting hard drugs in the street. People being mugged in hoglands park. People being stabbed in St Mary’s.
Or pop across to Portsmouth, you’d see the same or worse.
I am speaking from personal experience.
Fake goods may be a problem, may be less so now than 20 years ago (and getting better every day), but it’s the violent and sexual crimes that really f*cks up a society.
I would rather risk having a meal made with gutter oil (unlikely) than be violently attacked in the street
He's a liar. Even Western anti-China media are reporting that China's gutter oil is being exported to the US to make jet fuel.
@@Harveyinchina So you’re telling me you personally saw these crimes?
I didn’t see them last time I visited.
I regular went to the center.
And I did a pub crawl with an old friend and walked back across the bridge back to where my Dad now lives.
As for China, you’re experience is affluent areas. You live in Shanghai. Clean and polite people compared to poor places I’ve seen. You go to city centers. It’s the other way around compared to the west for wealth.
Raising a kid I’d be concerned with food safety.
Fake milk, gutter oil, fake vaccines.
Best way to avoid it is to get imported goods, and pay that extra price.
Again, likely in Shanghai you’re less likely to get into the mess of the problems. But still worthy to be vigilant.
These are serious conversations I’ve had with locals in poorer areas about these issues.
Plus, I used to live in an area that locals told me had high heroin use.
So, it’s not all sunshines and rainbows.
I do wish the best for you in your life in China.
Just keep a critical mind.
@@stee12318 thanks
American who has lived in China for 25 years and I speak Chinese. Yes there were gutter oil, poison baby powder, even 2 RMB fake Coca Cola but they are all gone, eradicated just like it’s extreme poverty. China is by far the best economically managed country in the world. It was ranked first in the 2023 Ipsos survey of Happiest Countries. Home ownership in China is near 90% with near 80% equity. Many farmers in remote villages now have 5G and 4K TV at home. There is no comparison between China and West over crime rates.
ya, the shanghainese, not ghost town but shallow! ha...........................
Is there a fish and chips shop, a pub and a grocery store nearby? Oh, and a day market?
That's the very essence of an English town....