This is one of the cities on my list to visit.

Thank you once again for the most interesting report. Born during the Japanese invasion my siblings are fascinated to share yr video. Although we would never again visit China we genuinely appreciate yr documentary. 😊

Very interesting. Thank you for the history lesson and side by side comparisons.

Thank you for this video. ✌✌✌

I enjoyed this travelogue.. fascinating history (though very sad for China)..❤🇨🇳

Cool vid. Have you ever visited Jingyuan in Tianjin (Puyi's former residence)? It's not huge, but worth a visit if you're in Tianjin. *Tip - Although they have signs that say no photos, every time i visited I politely asked the staff about it, and each time they said it wasn't a problem.

Nicely done documentary. All the references to “Puppet” government are kind of funny. What does that even mean?

Question: why are the tree trunks painted white? I've noticed this in just about every KZfaq video from China.

Love your videos. Is the language hard to learn?

I still remember reading about a sad historical event in Chang Chun when I was a Child. emperor Puyi had no one follow his order, everything he did had to be permitted by the Japanese. When he finally got enough trust from the Japanese, He was allowed to have his personal security guard. an army of 80 men from Manchurian and Mongolian elite families. Until one day some of his personal guards got drunk and got into a fight with Japanese soldiers in Da Tong Park大同公园. The emperor's warriors proved their metal. They won the fight. But the Japanese disbanded the guard shortly after the instant. That was the end of the last army of the Qing Empire. If you are in Chang Chun, maybe you could go see that place. I've never been there myself.

I find that fascinating thank you. I have read the 160 page Lytton Commission Report presented to the League of Nations in 1932/3 which detailed the unconventional if not inhumane or illegal activities of the occupier. I must join the dots sometime.

I lived there for many years and have many beautiful memories of that city. The food, the people, Guilinlu, Nanyang area, the fish market, Puyi palace, renmin square, , hanging out a Nanhu park. Slipping on the ice in Ziyou avenue. My ex wife's grandpa was about 10 years old or so back when Japan used to rule China from this city. He told me he didn't remember much, only that the city was very orderly before the CCP took over. Though I always wanted to get more information from him, he always emphasized that word. Orderly. Changchun was only a railway crossing of the Beijing Line and the Transsiberian Line. It was integrally designed by Japan and many of their buildings still stand today. Many more than the eye can see, some of them hidden between the high buildings raised in the last 30 years or so. All the buildings you mentioned, I've seen them myself. There's a not-so-small neighborhood south from Culture Square that when you walk in it, it makes you feel like you're in Japan. And I've been to that Commercial bank of China more times than I could count. Man the memories I have of that place, a city not famous among Chinese that has a huge history of its own. Thank you for the fantastic video. A correction, though: Qinghai square in Dalian is much larger than Tiananmen, let alone culture square.

9:15 -A spa and clinic. Yeah........of course it is! I believe you! ; )

No century old izakayas?? No surviving ryokans or tea houses???

Had a friend who came from Tianjin City... also Japanese occupied..the Japanese planted masses of cherry blossom trees along boulevards, which were all sadly cut down..

“Site of these damned puppet scumbags..... who built all these wonderful buildings we can’t seem to replicate” lol

this is jp place

i would enjoy traveling on the soil of Japan province of China one day.

Japan loves(d) Roman pillars, but they are impressive.

from the many photos, try to find out the map of the Dixie Mission before and after Japan colonized China at that time... maybe that's why Taiwanese and mainland Chinese people have different views on Japanese people...

I'm 4% smarter after this lesson!

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To Western people will find interesting but no to a Chinese!