The ENTIRE History of China | Ancient to Modern (4K Documentary)

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  @grantbliss2658 · 1 year ago

  China being an hour shorter than the USA is comedy to me

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  @vintang1960 · 1 year ago

  For Chinese people, this video has many errors, but for people who know nothing about China, it can give a general understanding of some major events in Chinese history.

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  @lobeteccy · 11 months ago

  As a Chinese, I have finally realized that language is the cornerstone that carries culture.<br> Many nouns, when transliterated into other languages, inevitably lose their original &quot;temperament&quot; and &quot;implication&quot;, which is difficult to compensate for no matter how much explanation is given

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  @geetacanpadee · 1 year ago

  A 5000 year old history explained in a nutshell. May not be perfect but certainly a well deserved attempt.

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  @rayluo-v3d · 1 year ago

  For all friends who are interested in China, I hope you keep in mind the following objective factors, which will help you better understand why China has such a history: <br>1. China is located at the easternmost part of the Eurasian continent, and its latitude is just the most suitable for human survival and agricultural production. It has huge plains and mountains, and a very humid climate, so it is suitable for agricultural production. You can look at Chinese landscape paintings, which are often surrounded by rain and fog, with mountains and rivers. This is our living environment. <br>2. China is relatively closed geographically, far away from other ancient civilizations. To the north of China is the world&apos;s coldest Siberia. To the east of China is the world&apos;s largest ocean. To the west of China is the world&apos;s highest plateau. To the south of China is a huge and hot tropical mountain range. So China avoids conflicts with other ancient civilizations. Even the Indian civilization next to it, China has never fought with it for thousands of years. And other ancient civilizations in the world: Egypt, Greece, Mesopotamia, Persia, India have had various wars and destroyed each other for thousands of years, and only the ancient Chinese civilization has been preserved. <br>3. The four major flows of human society: population flow, logistics flow, information flow, and financial flow. China began to build and unify these four flows more than 2,000 years ago. <br>4. China has two major river basins: the Yangtze River Basin and the Yellow River Basin. For ancient countries, river water transportation is equivalent to the current railway system. The river basin is the area that a country can effectively rule. The Yangtze River Basin and the Yellow River Basin are intertwined and linked to each other, covering most of China, so they provide logistics and population flow conditions for China to unify into a huge country. <br>5. Since the Qin Dynasty, China has unified writing and currency, that is, standardized information flow and financial flow. It has greatly accelerated China&apos;s internal unification. <br>6. Because China objectively has very good conditions for unification, all dynasties in China have pursued unification (because the rulers know that unification can avoid war). After successful unification, a strong imperial system and emperor are needed, so Chinese culture has a very solid unified thought and collectivism. <br>7. Supplement: You can compare the Roman Empire. Why is its map along the Mediterranean? Because the Mediterranean is essentially a large lake, which is equivalent to a highway, realizing convenient logistics and population flow, and the universality of gold realizes the standardization of financial flow.

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  @maxjiang3032 · 1 year ago

  Thanks so much for the documentary about a 5,000-year-old China in just 3 hours. A quick correction: the number victims in the Massacre of Nanjing in 1937 by Japanese invaders should be 300,000, rather than 200,000. &nbsp;RIP to those children, moms, fathers, and soldiers...

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  @padraicley3265 · 1 year ago (edited)

  It is a Western version and viewpoint, which misses the importance of Chinese culture, especially the imperial Western invasion in the 1800s.

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  @katelynjoymoore · 6 months ago (edited)

  as a little girl, I was always very fascinated and obsessed with Chinese history and culture, but obviously i was young so i didn’t really know too much about it all. Well today, at 24 years old, I bur my first ever solo trip to meet up with a longtime friend in China, I’m going to Shanghai and Beijing and I’m spending two weeks in China with my dear friend from high school. The trip is in a little over a month. I am so excited to reconnect with Chinese history and culture is starting now with this documentary!!

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  @historydarksleep · 10 months ago

  I can’t believe people actually lived like this… history never fails to shock me.

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  @tonykusz9943 · 1 year ago

  Might not be perfect but for people like me who know absolutely nothing about china prior to this, I think it’s a very informative start to understanding Chinese history . <br>Well done

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  @NickDolgikh · 1 year ago

  I respect Chinese culture, when I was studying in University I had some class mates who were Chinese from Malaysia. They studied well and had high respect for their family&apos;s

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  @KpopItaliaNSUB · 1 year ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_G7pd5eHSo&amp;t=54">0:54</a> - Prehistory<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_G7pd5eHSo&amp;t=162">2:42</a> - The Xia Dynasty (2070 BCE - 1600 BCE)<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_G7pd5eHSo&amp;t=304">5:04</a> - The Shang Dynasty (1600 BCE - 1046 BCE) <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_G7pd5eHSo&amp;t=513">8:33</a> - The Zhou Dynasty (1046 BCE - 256 BCE) - Iron, feudal system, Confucianism VS Legalism VS Taoism.<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_G7pd5eHSo&amp;t=918">15:18</a> - Warring States Period (476 BCE - 221 BCE) - &nbsp;Sun Tsu &quot;The Art of War&quot;, war transformed China politics.<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_G7pd5eHSo&amp;t=1518">25:18</a> - The Qin Dynasty (221 BCE - 206 BCE) - &quot;China&quot; name comes from &quot;Qin&quot;, Centralization of power, unification and standardization of currencies, writing systems and weights = homogenous Chinese identity.<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_G7pd5eHSo&amp;t=1642">27:22</a> - Life of Peasantry in Qin<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_G7pd5eHSo&amp;t=1697">28:17</a> - The first Great Wall<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_G7pd5eHSo&amp;t=1798">29:58</a> - Death of Qin Shi Huang / Terracotta Warriors - Elixir of Immortality, Myths, the Emperor&apos;s Madness, the Mausoleum of the Qin Emperor. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_G7pd5eHSo&amp;t=2108">35:08</a> - The Han Dynasty (2070 BCE - 1600 BCE - western Han 206 BCE - 9 AD) - Confucianism as main philosophy, prosperous period, ruling class was determined by instruction and capacity. Empress Lu&apos;s cruelty, Emperor Wu ruling after her. Established the &quot;Silk Road&quot; for trade purposes and China entered in contact with other tribes and populations, introduction of Buddhism in China. Wars led to instability. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_G7pd5eHSo&amp;t=2415">40:15</a> - The Xin Dynasty (9 AD - 23 AD) - Wang Mang Emperor distributed the lands to peasants, causing contrast with the ruling class, wars, and revolution. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_G7pd5eHSo&amp;t=2569">42:49</a> - Eastern Han (25 AD - 220 AD) - New Golden Age, Yellow Turban rebellion<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_G7pd5eHSo&amp;t=2700">45:00</a> - A Fragmented Empire <br><br>Ok I&apos;m tired I leave the rest to you! hahah

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