China’s Fake Libraries - Filled with Fake Books
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@@CHINESE_PRIDE
Wow this fake library sucks
@@CHINESE_PRIDE
Those are real libraries at the end of video.
The Chines got trains and tracks the US should off had 50 years ago, that's the only plus I saw thus far.
@@Designer_TopG
It's an old story from The China Show. I think from back when it was still ADV. But yeah, dude. A lot of stuff in PRC is fake. Did you see the faux food videos, where they make fake black tofu and stuff?
first they burn the books now they pretend to have books
It's funny how the "books" extend to ceiling height with no possibilty to reach them.
I was thinking the same too 😂
I think it a case of they want it to be filled but nobody would every bother get something at that hight so they put filler like the lego store to self for spare part being empty
@@辰叔说剧 HEY CHANG! LOOK A LIVING SEA CREATURE!
Why would you even want to get up so high to not get a not a book?
@@辰叔说剧- Party Bot.
First thing I noticed in that Dutch designed one is, why are there books WAY up on the upper walls/ceiling? Even if those books weren't fake, there's no way to reach them.
the shelves are steps..
@@douglasmercer2501 Some are steps, but quite a bit were in the ceiling arches and overhangs. Unless you can walk on ceilings, you arent getting those.
those are just for decorations. this is just the loby of the library , the steps are for people to sit on. books are stored on the shelves in other rooms properly. this youtuber is full of shit.....
@@conorkilhenny5362 those are just for decorations. this is just the loby of the library , the steps are for people to sit on. books are stored on the shelves in other rooms properly. this youtuber is full of shit.....
The army of little flying robot drones will get them for you 😉
Photos of the Tianjin library circulate on Facebook trivia pages claiming it's the "largest library in the world" but it is clearly fake since the books aren't even in accessible locations.
Largest library,. as in the building is the largest...
Not the largest selection of books....
@@jwhite5008 I'd say that's the wrong analogy to make. You don't go to a kindergarten to look at animals.
It's like going to the zoo and seeing that most of the exhibits are painted animals instead of real ones.
Like yes, there's gonna be painted illustrations there. But the big thing is that there is going to be a wide selection of real animals to look at.
Connecting that to the library: You would expect the books at the high unreachable shelves to be just for decoration. It's useless to put real books up there. But you should have real books on the reachable shelves. If not, what's the point of having that part of the library other than just to look good and trick people.
@@SahasaVIdk, wouldn't put books on floor-level either, so by design only 4 of those layers I'd actually want books on. Which would also be kinda confusing if you can't tell from a distance. So IF there is actually a decent library somewhere nearby, then I'd actually be ok with it, though I still don't like the design (separate issue tho). Generally like this channel, but they do sometimes turn off their own critical thinking, which HARMS the objective of showing the actual bad sides of chinas by discrediting themselves. I think it's good to call them out whenever they do that to make sure when they actually do point out the bad sides, they are taken seriously. It's sometimes hard sharing videos from them when there are clear exaggeration/misinformation in them (or just the general tone being a bit too one sided). I'd prefer if they were more muted, so I can actually share them and not be labelled a china hater (that turned into a rant of the whole channel, sorry)
@@jwhite5008 What I think is a good analogy is if Wal-Mart released videos and photos of a huge fancy looking store with shelves stacked with every product you can imagine and tried to convince you that this is proof that they are superior to any and all competition they have - then when you take the time to go to the store you find out it's all wildly impractical for the purpose of shopping and they have a normal selection of products that you could expect to find at any store. You'd probably realize "oh Wal-Mart was trying to trick me into thinking their stores are better with this nice LOOKING store, they don't actually care about making a BETTER store."
That is exactly what is going on here. They built this library to look fancy for pictures so that Chinese state media and government funded 'influencers' can use it as propaganda - they can say "look at what our amazing China has built, meanwhile the US library looks like this *insert picture of abandoned library covered in trash*". But when you actually try and look at the place as a repository of books and historical documents which is what a library is supposed to be it's pathetic in comparison to what countries like the US and UK have. Plus they fail to mention that China has hardly any libraries compared to the UK or the US - there are like 3,000 public libraries total in the whole of China for over 1.4 billion people. The UK about 3,600 public libraries with a population 1/20th the size of Chinas population. The US has around 14,500 public libraries and their population is like 1/5th of the population of China. China trying to brag about their libraries is absolutely propaganda - they do not even come close to comparing to the countries they want to compare themselves to in the propaganda.
@@AznPride101 China, population 1.4 billion - has approximately 3,000 public libraries. United States, population 331 million - has approximately 17,500 libraries. But yeah I am sure there are libraries everywhere in China...
Why read a book when you can take a selfie picture with fake books....
I am from India. Recently many Indian channels peddling CCP propaganda have been recommended to me, they have Indian vloggers showing how wonderful China is! This library was also shown by many Indian Twitter handles. I am your regular viewer so I know this already but unfortunately many in India believe this. I recommend your channel to them. Keep doing the good work 🙏
You know they get paid by china through donation on Paytm
yeah bro this indian bootlickers of china makes me laugh
He successfully fooled you
@@ChatGPTv2023 wumao
Hello from USA.❤
I have never seen a better representation of a Communist library.
Not communist
@@a-ramenartist9734
CCP.
Chinese Communist Party.
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The worst part is...
that this was ABSOLUTELY UNNECESSARY.
Even if this was for propaganda, nobody is judging a nation's success by seeing how many libraries do they have or how beautiful they are.
If you want to build a library, then it should be done solely for promoting public access to knowledge and increasing general awareness
Oh, and not to mention, it should be filled with REAL BOOKS.
It's no problem. Most schools in the states have minimized or eliminated school and public libraries or putting ABCLGTB books for elementary kids, if they can even read.
Imagine trying for the harmonious serenity of wabi-sabi and ending up with knockoff ikea in a cave, creating the greatest aesthetic clash since the 90's.
As a career librarian, I have seen the heydey between the 70s and 2000's, when books were still centre stage, to their steady decline in the digital era. I'm not nostalgic for the physical book, which, as noted elsewhere in the comments, have become architectural elements in libraries. So I'm not terribly shocked by book wallpaper as an architectural feauture.
Yeah,but at least use a dummy
Fine .. but the propaganda they are trying to feed the world is that the books are real.
But it is presented as if it were a physical library. It's the deception that is part of the point. And I will always love physical books. No commercials🎉🎉,🎉🎉
I just watched Jamaicafunk's "Is China's Binhai Library Fake?" video and he gave a different story than yours
In Tijuana Mexico, there's a place called the Cecut, it looks exactly like the giant ball here 08:06. It's a wonderful place to learn about culture, nature, gastronomy etc, sometimes people gather to buy books watch movies among other stuff, i remember back in 2016 i went to watch "The Wales" movie, there was a display of wales skeletons and information about every species, such a cool experience.
I like the detail of that book in the cave at 04:34
A dystopian book in the bottom-mid called "1084"
Cool
Wait. They can't even make a fake library. Even the fake library is made by the Dutch : /
Another blue screen video , must be desperate for cash
...no, they prolly faked that too...
Thank you for playing Erik Sati's masterpiece Gymnopedie no.1 at the end, I love that piece
Amazing, a library without books.
That's congress
CCP doesn't want their citizens to read many books, because reading will make their citizens to start realizing that they should not have CCP as their government.
Почему? КПК сделала из их страны первую экономику мира и в 10 раз повысило уровень жизни. Нет подобных примеров кроме маленькой (1/25 Китая) Южной Кореи
Индия, Бразилия, Мексика, Африка, Индонезия и другие, имея старт лучше, даже не подобные Китаю сегодня. А ведь он все еще растет в технологическом плане.
20 лет назад железные дороги там были как в Индии и хуже чем в Бразилии, сегодня их больше и они лучше чем в США и Европе
А ведь они их увеличат в 2-3 раза…
@@Prizrak96then why is the CCP banning any book that talks bad about them, even if just a little bit? Plus, it was the CCP that brought back China from poverty, it was China’s openness to foreign countries and hard work, during Mao’s time, they were very poor, and now that Xi is becoming another totalitarian leader like Mao and closing China to any foreign country, the same thing will happen, in due time
Do you think average Z generation kids worldwide like to read?
@@da4127 Being poor has any bussiness with Mao? No, it beacuse you those west men robbed and stolen things form China.
@@da4127 Just like you are afraid of entertainment videos on TikTok? Hahaha
If I was in that library in person I would just assume the wallpaper was intended as a decoration rather than as a deceit. Crazy that they are actually going to all that trouble to build that massive library and then not even filling it with actual books, maybe with Chinese culture being as it is, they are afraid people will steal the books and sell them if they actually put real books in there.
I cant imagine the reaction of followers & believers of this channel when they see the real China😂.
They tried to one up South Korea's well known Starfield Library but failed
This is obviously only the lobby of the library, and everyone knows that these books aren't real, because the book decoration is used even at the ceiling.
Apparently there is a megaproject thing inside that you can rent books via kiosks and then go pick up the book sorted from a giant machine that sorts out the internal library which is hidden underground.
I think it is a pretty cool idea but also silly
Why created a library in a village where basically no one can read or have the habit to read?
More % people know how to read in China than USA lol
it would be totally fine if the ridiculout bookshelves near the ceiling were fake, but just two or three rows of actual books! this is ridiculous
I remember those types of fake library backdrops from old-school photographs, ironically the backdrops were used to cover up shelves of books in the school library.
To think, that could have been a beautiful library... if it only had books.
Wow, I have more books in my home than they have at the Banwan library…
Wow, my dog has heavier brain than you🤣
Seems very practical to read books in a cave with about 100% humidity and most likely water dripping from the ceiling. Also very useful in a rural town in China.
Not to mention the dutch library, will books wallpaper till the ceiling and few real books about CCP approved statistics on the chinese economy.
Makes you realize how “efficient” dictatorships are in reality.
Lie-talking 😂
What is the most depressing is that if they had spent 10% less money on the building they could have filled the thing with real books .... :(
That has to be the worst designed library ive ever seen. It is good the books are fake because id hate to see how many people would get hurt climbing to get them down from the shelves.
You killed it! Thank you for showing those beautiful libraries ❤
One of my all-time favorite trips was to HK, where I spent much of my time at the airport book stores. Now, sadly, these are all gone except for the one chinese bookstore which sold only one title: "How To Be A Lying, Cheating, Thieving Imbecile", written by the ccp, and signed by xi.
This is really sad. I remembering absolutely impressed by the ancient 'factories' that China innovate using crude water wheel power. Gun powder and so much more came from China...now it is just sad what has become of it.
Appropriate decor that matches the facility.
I'm Lovin 'it @ 6:04 McDonalds lower right of sholder, Howd that get there?? lol 😣😂
The embodimont of 'You had one job'..
The real question is if you're so rich you get a foreign architect to design your shinanigans, why don't you spare some %10 of it (if not free with second hand/wasted books) to actually assort real books?
This must be the library’s foyer. The real question is how many real books, and above all WHAT books are in the other rooms.
3:23 What's sad is that a cave library would have been an awesome idea. While I don't usually read books, I might have given it a go just for the serene, peaceful atmosphere that such a place must foster.
Any construction project in China is huge opportunity for local government officials and contractors to make a lot money.😂😂😂
Why would you destroy a beautiful natural cave by some stupid ass library? 😢
So... They spend propably dozens of millions of dollars worth of resources to make a buildings and pretend that they are some kind of great libraries? Maybe someone should told them that for the same amount of money they could just build little smaller building and fill it with books? Just saying...
Surprised that the shelves aren't just jammed with shoepig's book
so they spend an absurd amount of resources to make it and its not even actually useable
Why? Why would they spend all that money to build this with all the major issues china is currently having. And why do people go there?
How would one get to the books at the very top? Such a weird design to say is a library.
China and it's social media is like one giant Haunted Theme Park.
The people there.aren’t looking for books, just selfies.
They have the people to fill these empty communities and buildings. They could put each family into one apartment and reboot those areas quickly. Happy, productive people pump back into the government. They're gonna have to do something. They're cutting their own legs off.
Man, you did a good job, you did a good job of inspiring some losers who like to study boring or even non-existent dark sides of others.
Modern day CANNIBALS. I heard about China having CANNIBALS. What do you know about it. I'm worried they will come to America.
Article in Mashable states that there are 200,000 books
Not there, in other buildings
China and fake are synonyms.
they hate the concept of written documents because they cant just omit whatever they dont like.
Those fake books may even more expensive than real ones. And I believe that the government officers and their white gloves earned a lot from these kind of projects. That also raised the cost of living for regular people in China.
How do books survive in the possibly damp conditions of a cave? Expensive climate control. Libraries are built where maximum people are located for easy access. A cave doesn't seem right, unless you had one handy in the city centre.
History ahs shown that leaders who don't care about their citizens want to keep them happy stupid and relaxed so they can continue their awful ways. I wish those who actually see through this fake libraries and know better and who isn't fooled the best. Unfortunately many places in the world do this messed up things. Thanks for the news. Cool video. ^_^
Libraries can only work in Democracies, not Authoritarian Police States!
OK, even if the books were real, how are you supposed to pick the ones in the mid-to-top part of this library?
im surprised the books have not got qr codes to scan to read. no digital id no reads lol
Who are they trying to fool...?
Seeing that fake wallpaper of "books" made me genuinely sad. Libraries are supposed to be a place of knowledge, learning and expression. But china has turned it into a weird empty place to take selfies.
Caves are moist. Books don't like moisture. ahhem.
The library in Cerritos, California is actually quite remarkable as well 🧐
Cool architecture of the Dutch-designed building, you have to admit. Nice outro with all these beautiful libraries in the US. Could do a similar outro with European libraries, of course.
All of the people in that fancy libary are reading on their phones. 😂😂
I bet those Chinese soldiers will shit themselves if they have to fight for real.
Us army lost to china in Korea
You mean china surrendered?@@JonySmith-bb4gx
Censoring book is 1984
Setting up books as a tourist destination suggesting that the books real or fake are nothing but props. This is Brave New World where censored books are everywhere and no one bothering reading them. China isn't dystopia, it's hell on earth.
If they need books, we ahve tens of thousands of books destroyed from universities and libraries every year... they oculd jsut do a book donation, to expand their means... like any normal place.
I was wondering if that abandoned graffiti building in LA that's owned by Chinese investors is a Tofu Dreg build?????😂😂😂
They gotta make the library look full since they burned most of the books.😬
So how do they expect anyone to grab books above the first few levels? Do they really think it is realistic or convenient to have "books" all the way to the ceiling with that shape?
You'll look at pictures of poles and be told those are trees, you will be fed porridge and sawdust and told it is chicken... or maybe even steak! When you drink water it will actually be... pea soup! And when you complain it will be the last time you complain, and you won't have to worry about anything else because you'll be the soup and part of a new leather couch.
OMG, you still can’t find a real job?
How about give it a try at Burger King?
Thanks for keeping it real Winston
They pretend to be clever 😅
Thank you, Winston. This seems like it's like the fireworks during the Olympics where everyone could see them on the television, but those who were live couldn't see them at all because it was all fake. So sad that China feels that they have to save their face to make them look wonderful. May God be with you and your family.
How are you supposed to access those books on the upper ceiling? Assuming they weren't wallpaper I mean. Such an inefficient and pointless design meant to "look cool".
my local primary school library has more books than that lmao
Absolutely!! Didn't the previous videos show how any form of literature gets you "not alive".
Yup. As far as war is concerned, China has been playing the long game.
One of the few channels that I dislike a video right away without watching a single second of the content and close a video before an ad ends. Channels like this are nowhere better than the CCP. Probably even worse.
@@Cadkerk Nah, I like to spot trash and let the trash makers know that they are making trash.
Say the books were real, how the hell would these be organized?
Most Chinese architecture in large cities China are designed by Europeans.
I heard they have re-written the Bible, distorting all sorts of things.
Thank you for confirming this.
6:05. There is a Macdonald’s in the background!
Like some bizarre horror movie set where no one values reading real books.
See you there
I watch these videos and it's hard to really believe this place is just evil. Makes me think about how bad things are in America for lower and middle class. I wonder if we would be any different with 1.4 billion people vs the 331 million we have now. Most of this seems unreal, but then again, it just may be a glimpse of our future.
The regime of short cuts and facades strikes again. Imagine if they did have books, how quickly they'd all be stolen😂😂😂
yes agree..I been there how many times..its.not a.library at all..they said biggest library..it was a lie.
Fake books, real ignorance
Libraries: The symbol of a free and prosperous society.
China: ....here's some wallpaper
Please stop. Libraries: The symbol of a free and prosperous society. Come to my library. Homeless shelter.
Man the trolls have gotten into this comments section, recently.
The worse things get in c hy na the more effort they put into internet warfare
@@jacklondon999Come to.o6r country, won't find homeless and we have real libraries, bot.
@@matthewmosier8439i only respond to them with ni hau
Back in the late 60's I was on leave in Hong Kong. I wanted to buy a Mao's "little red book" as a souvenir. The Commie department store sold them at a very high price, I picked out a smaller size book. After the purchase I discovered that the pages were blank! The salesman informed me that all of them are blank, you use them as a prop at rallies.
Chinese are such smooth thieves
Hilariously that would make a good souvenir
You could have written other unknown Mao's thoughts in it.
Ha? What ? Explain
😂 secret notebook
china invents world's first fireproof library 😂😂😂
I wouldn't even bet on that.
Not fireproof, it's all made of paper.
Its probably one of those tofu building ..
Haha 😂 YES! Agreed
You got me. 😂😂😂
I used to teach in Jiangsu, China where they had a massive library. I often go there for private study.
I was so surprised to find out that students NEVER go there.
They only use its lower ground floor for PE where they play Ping-Pong.
Several hundred square meters of empty chairs and tables, and 5 floors big.
The librarians, who were so happy to at least have ONE teacher visit them, told me that the library was built ONLY
to impress then Chinese President, Hu Jintao during his visit there!
if they were smart enough to use the library they wouldn't be supporting the CCP
Thanks. The place looks epic. This video full of misleading information and breed hate. Yes there are some of fake books but that on the 1st floor and gathering area for people to meet and chill. There are quite a lot of videos about this place. If people really want to know the truth, they should do more digging, rather than just see what they want to see, sad really.
to be fair thats most kids. being forced to learn crap makes people less likely to want to learn something else. i honestly hate how modern education is done. still i suppose it was made that way because there had to be some standardization.
@@WilliamCheung-h2c i think the main purpose here is not to present it like China doesn't have legit libraries. But to mock their usual way of trying to make it like they are advanced , when they actually aren't . And their main way to do it is to build these paper projects , like a sand castle or a theatrical decoration :/ . They lull people into a false sense of progress.
There is no point building libraries - even real ones - if they ban most of the books. They should make their mind.
They did, that's why they do that. To keep their people from the truth around the world.
Why not ?
Well, they don't ban "most" of the books. Only books that harm their image.
@@ticketforlife2103 Soo... most of them?
To be fair there IS a room for a library without that many books. Just in my town alone, granted - in Europe, we have exchange for toys , table top games or baking utensils. Also a traditional library just had opened doors after renovation and it includes cricut (design and cut) lab, 3D printing lab (modeling and printing), laser engraving lab, individual computer work stations and even a relaxation room. I truly am proud of designers for even coming up with ideas. And as someone who contemplating whether to buy a gadget of 1000 USD for a few DIY projects - getting stuff done at the library seems very enticing.
This doesn't even look like a library, it looks more like a Foyer from a large library that is connected to it.
Or a book-esque virus, that is infecting the local buildings.
Like a mold from a horror movie, but instead it's book covers.
It’s a library similar to that in Qatar lol
it is, the actual library is in the surrounding rooms. I've been to plenty of libraries all over Asia that are incredibly similar. it wouldn't make sense to put books under a bunch of raised seating areas. this channel is purely funded for anti-china narrative. which is fine, but its dishonest. South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong & Japan have plenty of libraries that do a similar thing. Asian countries love photo opportunities & large foyers to congregate. China isn't different in that regard.
Yeah, but Korea and Japan don't put out oodles of propaganda on social media crowing about how massive their libraries are compared to dumb Westerns. Get real, wu mao
@@TK-Yogi there is not much space in the "surrounding rooms" for books either. Only first and second floor of building have book shelves and most of the space in first and second floor is occupied by that large atrium with fake books and projector ball. Rooms on third, fourth and fifth floor are reading rooms or computer rooms or gathering rooms, not book storage.
All libraries in asia or west that I have seen are actually putting the books on shelves in the atrium too, they have floors with railings to allow access to the books on all levels. Because that's what libraries should do.
The original project for this library from MVRDV had the high shelves in main room accessible from the side rooms. It was not designed to be "fake".
This design was changed to use fake books and wallpaper during construction by chinese local authorities to save cost and build quick.
Congratulation, you are a wumao