The main reason why Japan is still very much hated in most of Asia is not because they DID the atrocities, but the fact that the government has kept denying that they ever did it and never formally apologizes. But newer generations are starting to see more people not care about it as much or don't care at all because it's almost been like 80 years since then.
For anybody who lived or knew people that lived in Asia after World War II, Japanese people in Asia were pretty much ostracized from the rest of Asia, whether they were involved in the war or not
@@rukeyazu8669no it isn’t. It’s not fair or ok to hate a race of people for something their grandparents did. It’s why we some current wars r being fought
@@inboxlibrary8512well the old japanese never apologized for killing million across asia. so it may not be right but it does seem a little justified. lucky tho the people of japan now are trying to rebuild the relationship.
John Rabe is one the most important forgotten humanitarians in history. He save so many lives and did so because of his understanding of Nazi Ideology. (He never lived in Nazi Germany. He was an expat who was arrested upon his return to Germany after the Nanking massacre.)
3:00 "it doesn't translate well into English" the Spring and Autumn Period has to be my favorite name for a historical period of anywhere, ever. Whether it clearly translates I have no idea, but it has a poetic sound in English that just can't be improved on
"Spring and Autumn" is a history book written by Confucius. At the same time, the two words Spring and Autumn are often used in China to mean a whole year, and also refer to time and people's years. This is why Confucius named the history book Spring and Autumn. Because of this history book, the Chinese named that period the Spring and Autumn Period
The spring and autumn period came from Lu Buwei in his book the annals of spring and autumn calling that period spring and autumn, which was kind of an objective observation of the Zhou dynasty as well as a critique of its historical irony’s going on because there was a lot of controversies that weren’t allowed to talk about at the time causing the warring states to happen. He helped Qin Shihuang to power and had a rumoured scandalous affair with Qin Shihuang’s mom that hasn’t been confirmed to this day.
Fun fact about Tiananmen Square: That famous picture where the guy is standing in the way of the tanks? It’s not a picture, it’s a screenshot. There’s a whole video of him climbing all over the tank and _civilians_ pulling him off the tank to get out of the way. I feel most people assume he was run over or shot by the tank crew, but that’s not what happened.
Thee video has been cropped to a larger size showing the tank leaving the square, and edited to make it appear that he is blocking the tank from entering the square.
the point that he was stopping the tank from LEAVING the cities were largely lost, he didn't want to stop from from coming in, he wanted to stop them from leaving... LUL.
3:49 Qin burning the books actully is more like an ancient version of censoring. He only burned the books about Confucianism, and some history books from other conquered countries, and he kept all copies of them in his library only for the scholars of the empire to study. what he didn't burn and allowed to be had by the public are engineering, medicine, and all other sorts of science and tech books. So, the point is, he just wants a really strong and united ideology, but understand the importance of technology and science. Which is very similar with China today.
Meaning, the dude forsees undue influence of facebook and twitter. Chad move right there. He also decided to drink Uranium grade Mercury for immortality, meaning, his dead body will never decay. The dude planned ahead
During the late Zhou Dynasty, after a long period of division, the written languages of the seven vassal states became increasingly divergent. After the unification of China by the Qin Dynasty, there was a need to standardize the written language, and books containing the old scripts were burned.
The Xia, while not having any archeological evidence, is now seen to be most likely real due to how sophisticated the Shang was. It wouldn’t make much sense that nothing came before the Shang. By the way a traditional Chinese farmers hat is not the conical one you see. That’s more common in Vietnam, instead it is a straw hat that is mostly flat with a bulge in the middle with sometimes the sides drooping down (probably have to google a photo to see what I’m saying)
Indeed, even without being able to link to a specific tribal communities amount the multitude of less sophisticated that are known to exist, the Xia is expected or presumed to be one or a union of them. Just don't know specifically which one.
@@braedanquigley7500 there’s a lot of different types but if you google “xihexi Chinese Traditional Hat” look for pics of it being mostly flat with a bulge in the middle.
4:19 One of the people that Qin Shi Huangdi sent out to find the elixir was Xu Fu, who (according to legend) traveled to Japan, introduced better farming technques to the locals, and later became revered as "the god of farming". Some historians have actually identified him with Emperor Jimmu, the first emperor of Japan.
there is a clan in southern japan that claim to be from qin china. they ain't the japanese imperial family, that's just a rumor, but it is likely that the clan is responsible for introducing chinese technology to japan.
In fact, accessing certain websites through VPN is tacitly allowed, as long as you don't do anything that violates the law, just like in other countries.
From Hong Kong here, this was a very interesting overview. I studied Chinese History in rushed, unorganized fragments during the pandemic, and this video really helped me wrap it all up, so I truly thank you for that. As for the Hong Kong part... well. A really teeny nitpick, but 7:27 西夏(xixia) should be 宋(song). The English part was correct, it was just the Chinese character. 西夏 is another nomadic tribe in the west between Song and Jin.
@@Hell.0itsMe I've lived in Hong Kong for 16 years, but the Chinese history I learnt is either told to me by my parents during random late night talks or online class during the pandemic when I was in Junior secondary (and my teachers... weren't very good at teaching), so I always knew it in bits, but not as a whole like this channel presented.
@@anonymous_hedgehog that sad you didn’t learn that in school, I mean I didn’t learn the truth about the states or any other country for that matter in highschool at all.
Dynasties, periods, centuries, decades, melleniums, eras, timelines, times, timings, generations, and more of China is some of the most memorable and quotable especially during the Xia, Xhou, Shang, Song, Tang, And Ming points yeah.
the bit about Ming and Qing is a bit short, the Ming sent out Zheng He to establish the maritime silk road and went as far to Africa. While Qing establish the much of the boundaries of modern China.
The ming also had lot of cultural input, for example most classic novels in Chinese were written during this period. The forbidden city was build during the same time.
@@elmehdihamouda7372and funny enough, most modern(2000-2024) novels about China were mostly focused on the ming dynasty due to its art and culture. Wuxia novels are the most popular from China.
1:23 I took a few Chinese classes in Belgrade and in one these the professor (a Chinese herself) showed us parallel pictures of earliest known chinese writing and what we here know as Vinča script Similarities are uncanny! I certainly do not endorse the classic Serbs older than amoeba theories But it's incredible to see such similar markings so far away Yet more or less the same age.
1: There is also a huge controversy in China about the existence of the Xia Dynasty. But we are not arguing about its existence. Rather, we have excavated a large number of historical products of the same period or even earlier than the Xia Dynasty to prove that there was a huge dynasty or a huge dynasty before the Shang Dynasty. Kingdom, but the problem is that we have not excavated this textual proof to prove the Xia Dynasty 2: It is simply ridiculous that Yunnan and Guizhou and other regions are not from the Qin Dynasty. You must know that Qin Shihuang sent Zhao Tuo to lead more than 100,000 troops to capture Baiyue. It is today's Vietnam area and it was ruled here until the Qin Dynasty was overthrown by Xiang Yu and Zhao Tuo declared independence. Therefore, there was no Yungui in the early Han Dynasty. I understand that there was still the saying that Yelang was arrogant at that time. But by the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, both Yunnan and Guizhou and parts of Vietnam, including the Korean Peninsula and Part of the Western Region (Xinjiang) was in the hands of the Han Dynasty😅
This history documentary on China’s Legacy is absolutely captivating! It beautifully covers the rise and fall of dynasties, ancient inventions, and cultural traditions that still influence the world today. A must-watch for all history buffs
13:17 I had always heard the opposite: That the KMT did most of the fighting, while the CCP strategically avoided confrontation and let the KMT and Japanese weaken each other, just to march on the city right after the end of the invasion, taking advanrage of a weakened KMT.
It’s really just a mixture of both. As even before the end of the war the KMT was also stockpiling supplies for the ensuing civil war. More over the communists were more prominent in the north while the KMT were more prominent in the south
The CCP was highly trained in guerilla warfare. They gathered militias to attack Japanese behind enemy lines and hinder their war effort. The KMT fought many large battles but were controversial, they only lost or drew those battles against Japan until 1945.
The problem was the KMT government was absolutely corrupt and Chiang Kai Shek couldn't really root it all out (he was aware of the problem and did try to deal with it)
Well done, definitely put a good amount of work into making this video. I always find documentary style information so interesting to learn about. I’ll definitely leave a like for ya, thank you 🙏
While it's very important to only share specific information in China these days, it's also important to note that they're actually less authoritarian than some US states on certain things like some vice laws. This was very good and thorough overall. Some things weren't pronounced correctly like Zhou or Yue for example but that's neither here nor there. You're also smart by keeping these videos under 30 minutes. One thing, as a history nerd, that I get frustrated by is the number of 3h+ videos. I get the nuance is tough to explain in 30 minutes but it's so important to limit the size per video. Anyway, great stuff.
If it only took 20min to tell China's approx 4000yrs if history! Then, the video on America's less than 300yrs history should only take less than 3min?
This video is an interesting mix of orthodox ancient Chinese history and mainstream western narrative for the period since PRC. Meanwhile Chinese historians nowadays show that china is multi-origin and has many heritages. As for the complete story of modern china, well, just go there and check it out
15:30 "This video is illegal in China". :( Really great video! You treated this very complex & at times potentially incendiary subject matter with lots of respect while also listing the important facts to educate people interested in learning, and in talking about it. It would be so important for the Chinese to be allowed to be part of this conversation. :(
In fact, Chinese people are very easy to use mainstream social media platforms like RUclips. Most Chinese people have a better understanding of world history and current events than Americans. On the contrary, most people have no understanding of China and the Chinese people, and only believe in the stereotypical images portrayed by Western media.
Small correction cause I may have lost some quiz points for this: Confucius should maybe be mentioned with the Han dynasty, not the Qin. Doesn't seem like his ideas were all that popular (or legal) during the Qin.
Man, i love your videos! Id like to request a video that either re does, or CONTINUES from your mongolian video PAST medieval mongolia into the modern day
Trivia note: The U.S. game show The Amazing Race has been on for 35 Seasons, & they have traveled to China for 9 of them; 1, 6, 10, 14, 16, 18, 21, 24, & 28.
So, this is actually because many ancient civilizations first popped up around river valleys! Egypt, Mesopotamia, India/Pakistan, & China as the big examples. They had a tendency to have massive floods that could be unexpected and end up being talked about and mythologized over thousands of years. I believe there may also be some Mesoamerica flood myths, and i imagine you could chalk that up to relatively common hurricanes that can occasional end up huge.
@@astronomicvulpine9836 no doubt i even considered that. Just entertaining the idea that something may have caused all the rivers of the Earth to flood at around the same time
The flooding wasn't accidental, it was tactical. Republic of china had german military adisers that recommended this tactic due to inferior training and equipment compare to the imperial japanese army. Is it cruel to drown that many civilians? It sure was. But it happend.
Love your videos! I know the U.S. history is minuscule compared to these other nations, but I’d love to watch a video on your take of the United States.
Not actually. In fact , most of foreign art works have been imported to China. Some good videos in RUclips have also been translated to Chinese in some Chinese platforms, if it isn’t about politic.
Actually China is not culturally closed in the modern times since they have their domestic “RUclips ” called “bilibili”, “twitter” called “weibo” etc. and in fact, apps&games such as TikTok, temu, genshin impact etc. are all from Chinese companies…btw they COULD watch RUclips videos by some special means
Correction: Sun Yat Sen did not ally with the communists in the KMT. Sun Yat Sen allied with Yuan Shikai to first overthrow the Qing Dynasty, which gave way to the modern warlord era. Then, Chiang Kai Shek allied with the communists to unify China.
Politics is isolated, yes(thus Chinese won’t be able to watch RUclips - Coz Google didn’t want to do the opposite of what US government asked TikTok to do - store data in China), but not so much of “culture”. Chinese culture, being thousands of years old, doesn’t receive US/western pop culture as easily as you may think. Every year, there are millions of Chinese going abroad to travel and study. If Chinese government really wants to block people from receiving foreign information, it could have stopped allowing people to come out, which it didn’t. Another point to note that the animation intentionally/unintentionally left Taiwan as “non-Chinese territory”. It doesn’t make sense KMT retreat to a foreign land and call them “ROC”. In fact, since at least Qing Dynasty(Chinese government claimed longer than that. Well, it’s up for debate), Chinese central government has direct authority over that island. Mr Liu Mingchuan was the last governor of Taiwan, assigned by Qing Dynasty before Japan invaded the island in the late 19th century. This is also why, upon Japan’s failure in WWII, Taiwan, as part of “original pice of land” of China, became under ruling of ROC again, which also gives the legitimacy of both PRC and ROC government to claim Taiwan is part of their “land”.
hay just curious how to you research your history I’m trying to develop my own method so I’m just curious Suibhne P.S. I love your videos and I’m also a history fanatic. Oh and can you please put the sources in the description.
In fact, it is possible to get on RUclips using methods such as VPNs in China, which is why I can speak here. It's not difficult for a lot of people. As long as you don't spy on it, you're not considered illegal.
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The main reason why Japan is still very much hated in most of Asia is not because they DID the atrocities, but the fact that the government has kept denying that they ever did it and never formally apologizes. But newer generations are starting to see more people not care about it as much or don't care at all because it's almost been like 80 years since then.
I mean only china & Korea hates Japan. That's like 2% of Asia.
For anybody who lived or knew people that lived in Asia after World War II, Japanese people in Asia were pretty much ostracized from the rest of Asia, whether they were involved in the war or not
Yes indeed. Living in China, it is still very obvious how much the people here absolutely dislike Japan, and that is being kind. 😂
Honestly? Fair.
That's why they have hentai to lure us back in😂
@@rukeyazu8669no it isn’t. It’s not fair or ok to hate a race of people for something their grandparents did. It’s why we some current wars r being fought
@@inboxlibrary8512well the old japanese never apologized for killing million across asia. so it may not be right but it does seem a little justified. lucky tho the people of japan now are trying to rebuild the relationship.
John Rabe is one the most important forgotten humanitarians in history. He save so many lives and did so because of his understanding of Nazi Ideology. (He never lived in Nazi Germany. He was an expat who was arrested upon his return to Germany after the Nanking massacre.)
why was he arrested?
@user-gd8fn7qn7r he was a huge annoyance to the Japanese so the Germans had him arrested.
@@mikelshort9150 ok, thank you for the information.
中国人民会铭记拉贝先生的壮举。
他永远是中国的朋友
3:00 "it doesn't translate well into English" the Spring and Autumn Period has to be my favorite name for a historical period of anywhere, ever. Whether it clearly translates I have no idea, but it has a poetic sound in English that just can't be improved on
"it was just game of thrones peroid, well, more like the first season out of 15 seasons, also imagine HBO has infinite budget"
It just literally means spring and autumn, but culturally it has much more connotation than that
"Spring and Autumn" is a history book written by Confucius. At the same time, the two words Spring and Autumn are often used in China to mean a whole year, and also refer to time and people's years. This is why Confucius named the history book Spring and Autumn. Because of this history book, the Chinese named that period the Spring and Autumn Period
In Chinese language, "spring and autumn" is a common phrase to represent "history" or "year".
The spring and autumn period came from Lu Buwei in his book the annals of spring and autumn calling that period spring and autumn, which was kind of an objective observation of the Zhou dynasty as well as a critique of its historical irony’s going on because there was a lot of controversies that weren’t allowed to talk about at the time causing the warring states to happen. He helped Qin Shihuang to power and had a rumoured scandalous affair with Qin Shihuang’s mom that hasn’t been confirmed to this day.
Fun fact about Tiananmen Square:
That famous picture where the guy is standing in the way of the tanks? It’s not a picture, it’s a screenshot.
There’s a whole video of him climbing all over the tank and _civilians_ pulling him off the tank to get out of the way.
I feel most people assume he was run over or shot by the tank crew, but that’s not what happened.
They were probably secret police. I was told he wasn’t seen again.
@@whitebenjamin75 even that completely unsubstantiated claim is better than “they just ran the dude over” or “they blasted him with a tank canon.”
Thee video has been cropped to a larger size showing the tank leaving the square, and edited to make it appear that he is blocking the tank from entering the square.
@@whitebenjamin75 “you were told” my guy this is how rumors start
the point that he was stopping the tank from LEAVING the cities were largely lost, he didn't want to stop from from coming in, he wanted to stop them from leaving... LUL.
3:49 Qin burning the books actully is more like an ancient version of censoring. He only burned the books about Confucianism, and some history books from other conquered countries, and he kept all copies of them in his library only for the scholars of the empire to study. what he didn't burn and allowed to be had by the public are engineering, medicine, and all other sorts of science and tech books. So, the point is, he just wants a really strong and united ideology, but understand the importance of technology and science. Which is very similar with China today.
Meaning, the dude forsees undue influence of facebook and twitter. Chad move right there.
He also decided to drink Uranium grade Mercury for immortality, meaning, his dead body will never decay. The dude planned ahead
During the late Zhou Dynasty, after a long period of division, the written languages of the seven vassal states became increasingly divergent. After the unification of China by the Qin Dynasty, there was a need to standardize the written language, and books containing the old scripts were burned.
The Xia, while not having any archeological evidence, is now seen to be most likely real due to how sophisticated the Shang was. It wouldn’t make much sense that nothing came before the Shang.
By the way a traditional Chinese farmers hat is not the conical one you see. That’s more common in Vietnam, instead it is a straw hat that is mostly flat with a bulge in the middle with sometimes the sides drooping down (probably have to google a photo to see what I’m saying)
Indeed, even without being able to link to a specific tribal communities amount the multitude of less sophisticated that are known to exist, the Xia is expected or presumed to be one or a union of them. Just don't know specifically which one.
As is often said, the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
What is the hat called
@@braedanquigley7500Liang Mao
@@braedanquigley7500 there’s a lot of different types but if you google “xihexi Chinese Traditional Hat” look for pics of it being mostly flat with a bulge in the middle.
4:19 One of the people that Qin Shi Huangdi sent out to find the elixir was Xu Fu, who (according to legend) traveled to Japan, introduced better farming technques to the locals, and later became revered as "the god of farming". Some historians have actually identified him with Emperor Jimmu, the first emperor of Japan.
👏👏👏
日本起源其实还没确定，有很多说法。不过我个人倾向于你的这种说法
@@张泽兵-z2v 对😃
there is a clan in southern japan that claim to be from qin china. they ain't the japanese imperial family, that's just a rumor, but it is likely that the clan is responsible for introducing chinese technology to japan.
日本倒是认为自己的祖先在中国东北，扶余人
Ah yes the functional independence of Hong Kong still is a fact and saying otherwise will definetly not get you thrown in jail there
Ya that stood out to me as absurd
Could you elaborate? Please
@@joseluiiiis They crushed pro democracy protests and ended freedom of speach
I know right? I got the last minute or so and I was just like....WHAT did you just SAYYY?????
In fact, accessing certain websites through VPN is tacitly allowed, as long as you don't do anything that violates the law, just like in other countries.
没错，外网反华的逆天言论太多，迷惑没有分辩能力的老一辈，多数接受教育有一定分辨力的人都能用VPN
而且我要是发些prochina的言论，会有很大概率被系统自动删除。prochina的视频则会消失或者限流量😂
From Hong Kong here, this was a very interesting overview. I studied Chinese History in rushed, unorganized fragments during the pandemic, and this video really helped me wrap it all up, so I truly thank you for that. As for the Hong Kong part... well.
A really teeny nitpick, but 7:27 西夏(xixia) should be 宋(song). The English part was correct, it was just the Chinese character. 西夏 is another nomadic tribe in the west between Song and Jin.
Wait you’re from Hong Kong but haven’t learned about Chinese history? Or do you just live there now?
@@Hell.0itsMe I've lived in Hong Kong for 16 years, but the Chinese history I learnt is either told to me by my parents during random late night talks or online class during the pandemic when I was in Junior secondary (and my teachers... weren't very good at teaching), so I always knew it in bits, but not as a whole like this channel presented.
@@anonymous_hedgehog that sad you didn’t learn that in school, I mean I didn’t learn the truth about the states or any other country for that matter in highschool at all.
Dynasties, periods, centuries, decades, melleniums, eras, timelines, times, timings, generations, and more of China is some of the most memorable and quotable especially during the Xia, Xhou, Shang, Song, Tang, And Ming points yeah.
You missed han, the most important one. Also I think qin should also be mentioned considering they were the first to unify it
@@navjo1454we do not like qin
？@@paris-x3q
@@navjo1454周公旦更应该被记述，你可以查一下他的事迹
Great work, as always! An animated history of the Balkan peninsula would be amazing!
You do the best videos
That last bit about Hong Kong sure didn't age well.
Yeah, there's definitely a lot that's happened since that Hong Kong segment was first made four years ago.
I was lucky to have visited HK back in 2013, a year before the Umbrella Movement broke out. It was such a free and happy society
Yeah that’s why he paused at that moment for a little while…cause he knew we knew.
@@miliba 自由只是一场幻觉。有钱在哪里都自由。
@@pargelenis3525besides the politicians running for offfice being hand picked by the ccp ahhh free and fair elections with no censorship what so ever
This channel is the best and your videos are so engaging for curriculum.
the bit about Ming and Qing is a bit short, the Ming sent out Zheng He to establish the maritime silk road and went as far to Africa. While Qing establish the much of the boundaries of modern China.
The ming also had lot of cultural input, for example most classic novels in Chinese were written during this period. The forbidden city was build during the same time.
@@elmehdihamouda7372and funny enough, most modern(2000-2024) novels about China were mostly focused on the ming dynasty due to its art and culture. Wuxia novels are the most popular from China.
Glad to have you back. First history channel I got into
1:23 I took a few Chinese classes in Belgrade and in one these the professor (a Chinese herself)
showed us parallel pictures of earliest known chinese writing and
what we here know as Vinča script
Similarities are uncanny!
I certainly do not endorse the classic Serbs older than amoeba theories
But it's incredible to see such similar markings so far away
Yet more or less the same age.
I visited a monastery in rural Serbia and the head priest told us that China has "stolen" their ancient script xD
@@miliba Of course he did hahahah
@@miliba the irony of saying that lol, China was old before Serbia even existed as a concept
1: There is also a huge controversy in China about the existence of the Xia Dynasty. But we are not arguing about its existence. Rather, we have excavated a large number of historical products of the same period or even earlier than the Xia Dynasty to prove that there was a huge dynasty or a huge dynasty before the Shang Dynasty. Kingdom, but the problem is that we have not excavated this textual proof to prove the Xia Dynasty 2: It is simply ridiculous that Yunnan and Guizhou and other regions are not from the Qin Dynasty. You must know that Qin Shihuang sent Zhao Tuo to lead more than 100,000 troops to capture Baiyue. It is today's Vietnam area and it was ruled here until the Qin Dynasty was overthrown by Xiang Yu and Zhao Tuo declared independence. Therefore, there was no Yungui in the early Han Dynasty. I understand that there was still the saying that Yelang was arrogant at that time. But by the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, both Yunnan and Guizhou and parts of Vietnam, including the Korean Peninsula and Part of the Western Region (Xinjiang) was in the hands of the Han Dynasty😅
you know its a good day when this guy makes a new video
Bro i don't think you know how happy i am that you are back!
This history documentary on China’s Legacy is absolutely captivating! It beautifully covers the rise and fall of dynasties, ancient inventions, and cultural traditions that still influence the world today. A must-watch for all history buffs
The throw back to crash course world history. Thank you for that
13:17 I had always heard the opposite: That the KMT did most of the fighting, while the CCP strategically avoided confrontation and let the KMT and Japanese weaken each other, just to march on the city right after the end of the invasion, taking advanrage of a weakened KMT.
It’s really just a mixture of both. As even before the end of the war the KMT was also stockpiling supplies for the ensuing civil war. More over the communists were more prominent in the north while the KMT were more prominent in the south
Both factions was conserving their strenghts. Didnt want an all out war with japan.
The CCP was highly trained in guerilla warfare. They gathered militias to attack Japanese behind enemy lines and hinder their war effort. The KMT fought many large battles but were controversial, they only lost or drew those battles against Japan until 1945.
@@dr.woozie7500there were successful offensives by the KMT forces in 1944 AFAIK
The problem was the KMT government was absolutely corrupt and Chiang Kai Shek couldn't really root it all out (he was aware of the problem and did try to deal with it)
Well done, definitely put a good amount of work into making this video. I always find documentary style information so interesting to learn about. I’ll definitely leave a like for ya, thank you 🙏
While it's very important to only share specific information in China these days, it's also important to note that they're actually less authoritarian than some US states on certain things like some vice laws.
This was very good and thorough overall. Some things weren't pronounced correctly like Zhou or Yue for example but that's neither here nor there.
You're also smart by keeping these videos under 30 minutes. One thing, as a history nerd, that I get frustrated by is the number of 3h+ videos. I get the nuance is tough to explain in 30 minutes but it's so important to limit the size per video.
Anyway, great stuff.
If it only took 20min to tell China's approx 4000yrs if history! Then, the video on America's less than 300yrs history should only take less than 3min?
Ohmy!! What have i stumbled upon. 1 min to go!! Been waiting for this upload!!
Thanks suibne!!
Really excited to one day visit!! This is helpful in my understanding, thank you
@12:20 "An event you probably havn't heard of".. what? It's like one of a dozen things we learn about China in middle school.
This video is an interesting mix of orthodox ancient Chinese history and mainstream western narrative for the period since PRC. Meanwhile Chinese historians nowadays show that china is multi-origin and has many heritages. As for the complete story of modern china, well, just go there and check it out
15:30 "This video is illegal in China". :(
Really great video! You treated this very complex & at times potentially incendiary subject matter with lots of respect while also listing the important facts to educate people interested in learning, and in talking about it. It would be so important for the Chinese to be allowed to be part of this conversation. :(
In fact, Chinese people are very easy to use mainstream social media platforms like RUclips. Most Chinese people have a better understanding of world history and current events than Americans. On the contrary, most people have no understanding of China and the Chinese people, and only believe in the stereotypical images portrayed by Western media.
5:53 was it only me who yelled out " if it weren't for you meddling kids!" and got a picture of the Scooby gang thwarting Wang Mei?
Nope, I thought the same thing xD
Small correction cause I may have lost some quiz points for this: Confucius should maybe be mentioned with the Han dynasty, not the Qin. Doesn't seem like his ideas were all that popular (or legal) during the Qin.
5:26 Tarim Basin back then wasn't Turkic but more of a mixture of Tocharians, Sogdians, Turkics, Eastern Iranians and probably more
From what I know it was indo european dominant and was gradually turkified over centuries
finally someone talk about how severe the Nanjing (or nanking) massacre was. As a Chinese, this will never be forgotten
The map and history are relatively consistent with historical facts. This kind of science popularization is really good.
Another banger from Suibhne.
Man, i love your videos! Id like to request a video that either re does, or CONTINUES from your mongolian video PAST medieval mongolia into the modern day
The time known as "the time of spring and fall" I think could be interpreted as "a time of rise and fall", referring to the volatility of the era.
春秋时期是正义的时代
Wait I thought your gonna do a full couple parts of china history
1. Too summarized
2. Too polarized
3. Your prononciation 😢
the Hong Kong segment was interesting, learned some new history! Taiwanese American here
Fun Facts: Taiwanese indigenous people are related to Sabahan people in Malaysia
@@elkingoh4543 冷知识，中国大陆也有台湾原住民叫高山族，是郑和下西洋带回来的。
THE LEGEND IS BACK AGAIN
Make a video of the complete history of Greece!!
brilliant video as always
The ancient Spartans skipped leg day… not because they didn’t want to do it, but because it involved running from lions.
Trivia note: The U.S. game show The Amazing Race has been on for 35 Seasons, & they have traveled to China for 9 of them; 1, 6, 10, 14, 16, 18, 21, 24, & 28.
Its crazy how every culture has a great flood story
So, this is actually because many ancient civilizations first popped up around river valleys! Egypt, Mesopotamia, India/Pakistan, & China as the big examples. They had a tendency to have massive floods that could be unexpected and end up being talked about and mythologized over thousands of years. I believe there may also be some Mesoamerica flood myths, and i imagine you could chalk that up to relatively common hurricanes that can occasional end up huge.
@@astronomicvulpine9836 no doubt i even considered that. Just entertaining the idea that something may have caused all the rivers of the Earth to flood at around the same time
Water is the source of life as we know it
Been lacking a Suibhne upload
Nice video!
Interesting and engaging video, cheers
nice presentation :)
The flooding wasn't accidental, it was tactical. Republic of china had german military adisers that recommended this tactic due to inferior training and equipment compare to the imperial japanese army. Is it cruel to drown that many civilians? It sure was. But it happend.
花园口时间，造成了大片农田被淹，好几百万人民流离失所，几十万人直接死亡，国民党会失去人民的支持。那些人转头支持中国共产党了，失民心者失天下。
时间打错了应该是事件。
you know i think you could be a good historical comedy animator. Maybe you should give it a shot.
HES BACK
7:44 The name in Chinese of the Song Dynasty is falsely written as "西夏".
9:07 The name in Chinese of the Yuan Dynasty is falsely written as "代遠", which should be "大元".
11:16 KMT is not 大清. Please!
11:41 "大都" was the name of Beijing when it was during the Yuan Dynasty.
Love your videos! I know the U.S. history is minuscule compared to these other nations, but I’d love to watch a video on your take of the United States.
aww yea the channel is alive
“The Jurchens, a French tribe in modern day Manchuria”. For sure
I don't know if it's acctually illegal there, but you can't watch RUclips in China
Is it illegal to listen to Ted Nugent in China?
Not actually. In fact , most of foreign art works have been imported to China. Some good videos in RUclips have also been translated to Chinese in some Chinese platforms, if it isn’t about politic.
Really good video. But Song should be 宋 not 西夏(West Xia), which is another country just next to Song. Also, Yuan is 元
Good stuff wish it was 2 hours long instead of 20 mins
I love this channel
Actually China is not culturally closed in the modern times since they have their domestic “RUclips ” called “bilibili”, “twitter” called “weibo” etc. and in fact, apps&games such as TikTok, temu, genshin impact etc. are all from Chinese companies…btw they COULD watch RUclips videos by some special means
like me ，VNP to look
RUclips
yes，chinese can use vpn watch youtube
@@zhangmingjie-i4rMe too.But it is vpn,not vnp.
😂😂😂我就是那个用奇特方式的人
Sure😂
Amazing video. Thanks xx
Do Canaan next plz
Correction: Sun Yat Sen did not ally with the communists in the KMT. Sun Yat Sen allied with Yuan Shikai to first overthrow the Qing Dynasty, which gave way to the modern warlord era. Then, Chiang Kai Shek allied with the communists to unify China.
😅孙的新三民就是联共啊
Is this video a reupload? Or did you just forget, what happened in Hongkong in 2019/2020?
Politics is isolated, yes(thus Chinese won’t be able to watch RUclips - Coz Google didn’t want to do the opposite of what US government asked TikTok to do - store data in China), but not so much of “culture”. Chinese culture, being thousands of years old, doesn’t receive US/western pop culture as easily as you may think. Every year, there are millions of Chinese going abroad to travel and study. If Chinese government really wants to block people from receiving foreign information, it could have stopped allowing people to come out, which it didn’t.
Another point to note that the animation intentionally/unintentionally left Taiwan as “non-Chinese territory”. It doesn’t make sense KMT retreat to a foreign land and call them “ROC”. In fact, since at least Qing Dynasty(Chinese government claimed longer than that. Well, it’s up for debate), Chinese central government has direct authority over that island. Mr Liu Mingchuan was the last governor of Taiwan, assigned by Qing Dynasty before Japan invaded the island in the late 19th century. This is also why, upon Japan’s failure in WWII, Taiwan, as part of “original pice of land” of China, became under ruling of ROC again, which also gives the legitimacy of both PRC and ROC government to claim Taiwan is part of their “land”.
Really interesting 👍🏻
春秋translates into "Spring and Autumn" is so humorous!
"China's whole again then it broke again"
The Tarim basin at the time was ethnically tocharian and Saka.
Honkong is already fully controlled and administrated by the CCP. What remains is largely superficial.
Man this is an aggressive oversimplification. Oversimplified would blush!
hay just curious how to you research your history I’m trying to develop my own method so I’m just curious Suibhne
P.S. I love your videos and I’m also a history fanatic.
Oh and can you please put the sources in the description.
could you make a video about the history of Taiwan? Please.
This was really good. I enjoyed it. I could definitely watch a much more in depth version of each of these events by you.
7:43 its 宋 not 西夏, when the 金 attacked its changed from north song 北宋 to south song 南宋
9:13 it's 元
“Probably havent heard of this in the west” bro its in every history book
As a Chinese, that’s why I failed history class at school. Just tons of this and that to remember.😂😂😂
❤❤❤❤ love your videos 😻😻😻😻😻
Well, Hong Kong is basically China now. One country two systems did not last long.
Can a normal Chinese citizen from the countryside travel to HK? Have you ever been to mainland China or HK?
Typical Chinese are all fond of self-destructive politics.
In fact, any ordinary Chinese can enter Hong Kong. The application for the pass was not difficult for us
Almost 30 years have passed since 1997, HK won’t magically change into China over night?
You can see how much history is lost even without being informed... just look how much the Dynasty periods held in the YT timestamps xD
13:22 13:29 13:30 13:31 13:31 13:31 13:31 13:31 13:33 13:33 13:34
We need the complete history of Denmark
Great job enjoyed this
Yeesh, that Hong Kong portion. I just checked the original video on it and, well, even then the ending aged really quickly. Didn't even survive 2019.
7:53 Southern Song should be 南宋，while now misspelled as 西夏（xixia）
The video is not illegal there.
Wonderful series!!!!
WHAT ZHONG "GUO", MORE LIKE "ALICE GUO"
In fact, it is possible to get on RUclips using methods such as VPNs in China, which is why I can speak here. It's not difficult for a lot of people. As long as you don't spy on it, you're not considered illegal.
Don't you feel upset towards your government that won't even let you access the Internet like the rest of the world?
@@Fireball_ogguess why the US government have to ban the tiktok
Very interesting. Good compilation.
If China sees this video, it will claim more land on this historical basis 😂
We haven't forgotten about the Nanking Massacre or the Japanese invasion of China and Asia. Not for a second!
Can u make an animated video about the history of Iran? Iran has one of the richest histories in the world.
Hong Kong is no longer independent. China basically changed that in 2020
Hong Kong was never independent. Ever. Nor was it ever granted independence.
4:35 Wow, this looks just like what has been happening in the US for the past few years!