Wow when they took down this wall city, I was still a toddler. My parents brought me to this park and I had no idea what this place was... my parents only told me it was a place for cheap dentist and doctors. I learned more about this city from my Japanese friends here in Los Angeles just like Uncle said here!!
Fascinating. I have watched many videos & documentaries about the Walled City but this seems to give a more first hand account thanks to "Uncle Man". Thanks for this excellent upload. I am a recent subscriber & have been watching your videos daily until I see them all.
I have had the privilege of visiting Hong kong twice. The first time the walled city still existed. I walked around it but did not feel that I had the right to enter. The second time I was in Hong Kong, it was gone. I'm not sure how I feel about this, as it was both a part of history & a viable living environment for so many of lesser income but at the same time in desperate need of help & updating or the perhaps the modern term is: gentrification. That it is now gone with nothing for the younger generation to remember of the history, living conditions & lives of those who lived there & built Hong Kong other than a park, is a sad thing. They would know nothing about this amazing part of the history of Hong Kong other than men like "Uncle man" & your excellent videos of this place.. I hope to some day have the opportunity to visit Hong Kong again. I loved it & could live there in a heart beat if I could afford it. Cheers from Canada.
Yeah, hearing from a resident who lived there is way better than hearing from a Western documentary team that spent only a day there, pretending to know everything about that place.
Should have reconstructed a section of the place to show some of the dwellings and industry that went on in there. Then again, what do you expect of a city that demolished most of its pre-WWII historical buildings.
Crazy how nowadays it looks all sterile and spacious but back then it was all crammed to the point everything looked dark and the smell was probably equivalent to a sewage processing plant
Full version: ruclips.net/video/1uCu5n2K5Zk/видео.html This is the original long interview, 2.5 hours in Cantonese, it will bring you to see whole park. You can open the youtube's caption for translation, however not everything can be translated well because the difficulty of Chinese literature and Feng Shui, and the google translation is not always in accurate all time, so please refer to Part 2, I will try update the translation when time is available. But if someone really want to understand this long video content, you have to wait for google future feature....if they have better A.I. for this translation matter. " Allow viewers to contribute subtitles and closed captions"
For me HK's history is far more interesting than today's HK. Reason being, there's very very little of HK's history left. They've pulled it down!! They live in a prison with gold bars...
Well in the future, our present will be a thing of the past and likely torn down. It all repeats. At least we have the internet and archives to look back on
+hongkongmap Is there anyway to do something to the video to straighten the curved views i.e. make horizontal & vertical really horizontal & vertical because while i find your videos informative & useful it's difficult to view them because of this distortion effect which makes the video not natural looking i.e. it's more natural to see the world not using fish eye lens..is this a limitation of the camera used ?
Your part 1 however is ok, meaning don't have the unwanted distortion...what camera used there ? Why don't you use back the old camera to get rid this distortion problem ?
If folks want to see footage of the place, the best documentary on it is the one made by a Austrian+HK camera crew in 1988. ruclips.net/video/S-rj8m7Ssow/видео.html
There is a great discussion and talk program in Chinese Cantonese call Singjai. Highly recommended for those of you who know the language and have some insights of Hong Kong.
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very rare old footage year of 1938
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***** first 2 minutes opening *****
Wow when they took down this wall city, I was still a toddler. My parents brought me to this park and I had no idea what this place was... my parents only told me it was a place for cheap dentist and doctors. I learned more about this city from my Japanese friends here in Los Angeles just like Uncle said here!!
ruclips.net/video/1uCu5n2K5Zk/видео.html
Full story
If only history channel was like this..
Thanks for the closed captions, great video -- I learned a lot.
Fascinating. I have watched many videos & documentaries about the Walled City but this seems to give a more first hand account thanks to "Uncle Man". Thanks for this excellent upload. I am a recent subscriber & have been watching your videos daily until I see them all.
I have had the privilege of visiting Hong kong twice. The first time the walled city still existed. I walked around it but did not feel that I had the right to enter. The second time I was in Hong Kong, it was gone.
I'm not sure how I feel about this, as it was both a part of history & a viable living environment for so many of lesser income but at the same time in desperate need of help & updating or the perhaps the modern term is: gentrification.
That it is now gone with nothing for the younger generation to remember of the history, living conditions & lives of those who lived there & built Hong Kong other than a park, is a sad thing. They would know nothing about this amazing part of the history of Hong Kong other than men like "Uncle man" & your excellent videos of this place..
I hope to some day have the opportunity to visit Hong Kong again. I loved it & could live there in a heart beat if I could afford it. Cheers from Canada.
@@Imightberiding that's awesome
Yeah, hearing from a resident who lived there is way better than hearing from a Western documentary team that spent only a day there, pretending to know everything about that place.
I learn so much from your videos. Thank you for another wonderful bit of art.
The park is much better, peaceful bliss where once noisy hustle and bustle.
this park was being here because of political matter
thanks for the captions
Should have reconstructed a section of the place to show some of the dwellings and industry that went on in there. Then again, what do you expect of a city that demolished most of its pre-WWII historical buildings.
i love it when you have tour guides
would love to visit this place
Crazy how nowadays it looks all sterile and spacious but back then it was all crammed to the point everything looked dark and the smell was probably equivalent to a sewage processing plant
Full version: ruclips.net/video/1uCu5n2K5Zk/видео.html
This is the original long interview, 2.5 hours in Cantonese, it will bring you to see whole park. You can open the youtube's caption for translation, however not everything can be translated well because the difficulty of Chinese literature and Feng Shui, and the google translation is not always in accurate all time, so please refer to Part 2, I will try update the translation when time is available. But if someone really want to understand this long video content, you have to wait for google future feature....if they have better A.I. for this translation matter.
" Allow viewers to contribute subtitles and closed captions"
This channel is awesome.
Great video I cant wait to go see it myself and meet Uncle Man.
For me HK's history is far more interesting than today's HK. Reason being, there's very very little of HK's history left. They've pulled it down!! They live in a prison with gold bars...
Well in the future, our present will be a thing of the past and likely torn down. It all repeats. At least we have the internet and archives to look back on
Only very little places with high historical presence remain preserved for future generations. The price of progress is always history.
Thanks for this informative video! May i know what videocam was used to shoot this?
+blueprint687
gopro 3+
+hongkongmap Is there anyway to do something to the video to straighten the curved views i.e. make horizontal & vertical really horizontal & vertical because while i find your videos informative & useful it's difficult to view them because of this distortion effect which makes the video not natural looking i.e. it's more natural to see the world not using fish eye lens..is this a limitation of the camera used ?
+HseOChin
thank you for your comment, sorry, gopro is just gopro
Your part 1 however is ok, meaning don't have the unwanted distortion...what camera used there ? Why don't you use back the old camera to get rid this distortion problem ?
What were they doing with dead people?
50.000 people used to live here
Unfortunately lots of schools in Japan totally ignore Sino-Japanese relations during WWII. For good reason - embarrassment.
Not just that, but their are quite a few revisionist that deny the Japanese army ever committed any war crimes.
If folks want to see footage of the place, the best documentary on it is the one made by a Austrian+HK camera crew in 1988.
ruclips.net/video/S-rj8m7Ssow/видео.html
First time I saw an actual wall
I like ur channel bro...great vids and history...ps: take exit B, the nearest way to take...😊
It's a shame they didn't leave a part of the kowloon complex standing. As a museum piece. It's historical value is huge.
There is a great discussion and talk program in Chinese Cantonese call Singjai. Highly recommended for those of you who know the language and have some insights of Hong Kong.
tour guides are usually annoying and not needed unless you're in the wilderness or very unsafe city. navigating yourself much more enjoyable.
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