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My great Grandma was born in Guangdong in 1912. Can't even imagine how she lived through this. Let alone the Japanese invasion.

Zhang Xueliang showed the most character growth in the series..

Ah the Warlord Era and the lead up to the last of the Civil War, definitely a favorite historical period. Thanks for covering this.

It's still weird to think about that China not even a 100 years ago was litreally a hellhole for the average chinese and a backwater, and now it's the world second millitary and economic power. And they done all of this growth only in the last 40 years.

Amazing video as always jabzy very impressive One of Chang Kai Shek generals was a member of my mosque I will try and get his name

One of the most under rated history channels, another great one!

China's history has been a clusterfuck since 1840, and things only worsened as time progressed. This period is so exciting (from a historical point of view) yet so unpopular. As someone who speaks Chinese as his mother tongue, I appreciate your work.

Very informative! And confusing! That bit at the end where the guy forced Chiang and Mao to make a truce, to try to focus on the bigger threat - that's crazy to think about. I love history!

It’s insane to think that the 200 years between 1800 and 2000 so many millions of people died from events like the Taiping Rebellion, Xinhai Revolution, two Sino-Japanese Wars, Chinese Civil War, Great Leap Forward and so much more. It’s a tragic history but China always seems to bounce back. To put this in perspective, every one of those events was massively more catastrophic than the American Civil War. I always think that from those millions (and maybe could be approaching a billion) of people that died, there are so many descendants that were never born that could have cured cancer or invented something truly transformative. We could be in a much different and frankly better world. Thanks, Jabzy, for this series and really putting this all in perspective.

Amazing video! I do have a tip though: maybe it would be better to have subtitles for these kind of videos since there are a lot of words and names that might be difficult to distinguish or understand for some people!

That was underselling unit 731 and its branches's actions quite a bit... They were developing and live-testing biological weapons, on chinese and other prisoners. Some of their anti-cattle strains were even used covertly against USSR, and there is some evidence to them using biological weapons in Sino-japanese war

Nicely done. Subscribed, keep up the good work my friend.

Amazing that you are able to sum up a VERY turbulent and anarchistic time in Chinese history so well!

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I highly recommend the “peoples history of ideas” podcast. Gives a very in-depth overview of Chinese history from the Opium wars to the peoples republic.

Your contents great bro keep it up

I hope to see the day where this video has millions of views history like this in this quality is rare and needed

Great stuff.

Great video

Please make parts 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. I NEEEEEED MORE please. Thank you and have a good one

Really makes sense how the communist party of China has seemingly wide spread compliance. The bar was so low and the history so dark that “just let us be a stable unified country” was really enough. I’m not a Maoist but Chiang Kai-shek basically ensured he’d lose public support after the Japanese invasion by alienating most of his war time Allies. Even in the years prior to Marco Polo the fighting was brutal with revolts, coups, skirmishes killing people in the tens of thousands… seemingly every couple months. The CCPs ability to open up their recent history post Qing really does (from a logical unbiased perspective) give them a lot of cultural credibility. They weren’t (insert American perception of lazy communist or whatever) revolting against a stable prosperous democratic nation. They were peasants and laborers revolting against a dictorial olicharchy that time after time was selling out its average citizen for the benefit of a few. The fact that China is a unified country today (even if not ethically…. Tibet etc) it really makes sense why the Chinese people let themselves be governed by a party portrayed as comically evil in the western world. To be clear I’m not pro Chinese government I’m just saying the decades before the conclusion of the civil war really does show how for all its many faults…. China is definitely better off now as a country.

Well done Jazby, there needs to be more in dept China history video like this one. If we need more people to better understand the current situation in China, and why China is behaving the way it’s behaving.

Chiang shouldn't have fought in Shanghai for so long. 2/3 of his German trained units became casualties. he should have made an orderly retreat to the Wufu and Xicheng lines at the end of the 1st month at shanghai at least or the 2nd month at most. and reorganize for defense there.

10/10. Good video.

Wow a Western KZfaqr actually acknowledges Panchen Lama. Western KZfaqrs always go Dali Lama controls Tibet etc.. and Xinjiang isn't a independent East Turkistan but was a tiny little place that didn't last long at all, that was inside Xinjiang.

I'd LOVE to see you make a documentary series on the Ming-Qing transition

The best animated modern chinese history series on youtube right now!

Bravo, sir! Easily the best 30 min video on the domestic politics of China during the Nanjing Decade.

The Zhunyi Conference was more than that. WAY more. In Mao's defense speech, he accused Otto Braun who in China goes by the name of "Comrade Li De" and the entire 28 Bolsheviks as utter morons and way too "stick-in-the-mud" to even understand the political landscape in China and also thinking whatever made the Soviet uprising in 1917 could be replicated again thus leading to such huge loss on manpower and not only that, wavering morale on top of zero territories to call as their own ground. Mao, in retrospect, was right. Otto Braun's philosophy was to rally the factory workers of China and start a massive riot then turn that into a revolution with blood while consistently going against the KMT and slam Chiang down. Despite even having lesser men than they wanted, Otto was STILL pushing for a great assault against the KMT which, obviously, was a stupid move that Zhou Enlai, Zhu De and Mao could see but as Otto was from the Soviet's direct control, they overrule Mao's authority at first. What Otto didn't realize that or failed to understand at least was that China in all it's tumultuous period, wasn't a industrialized state like Russia where industrialization was already happening by the 1890s thus when the revolution kicked off in Russia, the Soviets can rally many factory workers in major cities to rise up and take power from the Tsar who had his army busy out west fighting the Germans. In China, industrialization was painfully slow due to the massive wars China sees itself constantly thus almost 80% of the entire nation was of agricultural origins and even in big cities, factories was sparse except superb urbanized areas like Shanghai, Guangzhou. Wuhan, Nanjing and Beijing were totally industrialized but as the more inland you go, it starts to dwindle down and with that little factories, it's hard to rally said workers to even revolt. Worse still, the Shanghai massacre in 1927 of Communist bloc members by the Green Gang ordered by Chiang was soo fearful to the city folk that no one even dared to raise a finger against Chiang as they knew that unlike the Russians, Chiang had spies AND army guys across the city to stop a revolution unlike Nicholas II who didn't have control of his own forces. Much worse was Mao and many of the Chinese Communist leaders had already tasted battle prior to even fleeing thru the "Long March" as they've already fought side by side with Chiang and the KMT during the Northern Expedition which was often called the "First United Front" and many of the Communist leaders like Zhu De, Peng Dehuai, Zuo Quan, even Zhou Enlai himself and few other generals were all alumnis from the Whampoa Military Academy too like almost all of Chiang's officers thus they had combat experience and proper tactical training to boot whereas for the 28 Bolsheviks, zero. Thus as their strategies kept backfiring, Mao had to step in, denounce the 28 Bolsheviks as stupid and take control into Chinese hands and do the entire Communist revolution into the "Chinese" way which was to incite the peasants rather than the workers where the peasants are way more plentiful than factory workers. This in turn worked well and Mao was right. With Otto Braun being outvoted even by Zhou Enlai, the Communist collaborated with Chiang but after the 100 Regiments Offensive, the CCP kept themselves in check by nor participating in much major warfare but instead consolidated manpower by recruiting more and more peasants, stockpiling weapons that were consistently sent to them by the Soviets (Yes, Mao did tell Stalin he'll do the revolution his way but would stick it as Communism which, surprisingly, Stalin agrees) and wait for the time to strike. Rest don't have to be said as I guess you'll explain the Soviets transferring Manchuria and the entire captured Japanese weapons stockpile out to the CCP post-war which bolstered the CCP's strengths again and went after the KMT once and for all in part 6.

Please talk about Soviet Outer Mongolia during this time and its own purges in the 20's and 30's.

History of China is like a trilogy Xinhai revolution and warlord era - prequel Sino Japanese war and Chinese civil war - original continuity Great leap forward and cultural revolution- sequel

This period is co chaotic I can't understand half of what's going on

Anyone have any good book recommendations for this topic and warlord era China in general? Because as good as these videos are, i could watch a dozen and barely retain any information its just so complicated.

Even though China is still fractured when they finally fight the Japanese, but still able to drained the resources of Japan is really impressive.

I commend the attempts to pronounce the slew of names in these videos. Though I have noticed more with this video with some inaccuracies (some just being nitpicks) and I don't mean names, that's just something you gotta accept when non-native speakers have to say anything in their non-native/fluent language (and that goes for anything, not just Chinese. It's like if Visualized History was unable to pronounce the vast amounts of German names, titles, and writing conventions).

*yes*

It would be very helpful if you included the Chinese name with their english translation in text on the video.

There is an episode on one of the channels that Simon does, that shows in a small window in the background a video tape of a Chinese woman being experimented on with frostbite. They cut the skin around her elbows and froze her arms and rip the skin from her arms. I can't believe it was shown on youtube. I'd rather not anyone go look at it.

Wow, whaddabout Mussolini's daughter? 31:25

So many pots and pans falling during this video

What happened to Wan Yun Gai or Sum Gei Man?

Well you said it yourself it's because of how divided China was.

31:28 Bro you can't just say that and not elaborate lmao. Now I'm really curious.

Imo Chiang should have waited until Western powers were willing to fight Japan and kept his elite German trained divisions from being destroyed in Shanghai 1937.

Cann you change the background music ?

Basicly had no industry,Any thing and everything rely on imports

Modernisation and learning from others. There, that's my summary.

What's people's deal with communism anyway? Is it because they believe it's evil, or because they're told it's evil? Just decades ago my country was a 'democratic' dictatorship, hell even North Korea calls itself a 'democracy'. Democracy is more than a label, it's more than having 1,000 parties within a country and/or voting the lesser evil every 4 years, that's why I believe every country should adapt the best political ideology that fits it's history and for the benefit of its people. A democracy that doesn't favour the people, is no democracy.

Is there a good book on this topic?

I still can’t stand how short sided and ignorant, some commenters are despite watching this video.

Those videos are literally me explaining my gf the shit out of HoI4

Chinese people like probably 25 different times during the 19th and 20th century: "wow, that was a brutal civilizational upheaval, but at least now it's over and we can finally begin rebuilding." the manchus/the British/the Germans/the Japanese/the communists/the kuomintang/the warlords/the climate/the tibetans/the earth itself: "hahaha, it has only just begun"

Tibet attack SiChuan because they want a plain field where they can grow food and industry, basically a place to provide for them. The Tibet cannot to support their own even for today. When Dali Lama actually try to contact Chinese Government and try to negotiate a peaceful return, he still demend to have large chunck of SiChuan cut to Tibet. Of course this ridiculous demand was turn down by the Chinese Government.

Ciang kai shake was to blame for Japanese invasion without any resistance. He could have at least delayed Japanese if he wasn't obsessed with communist.

Hmm...

Do we know whether Mao really believed that his rivals where spies?

The independence claimed by Tibetan Gaxag government was never recognized by its central government, nor was it recognized by any of the world powers at that time. If you call that an “independent country”, then the states of Lugansk and Donetsk also have every right to self-claim independence.

I'm a bit early lol

All those atrocities from the Japanese are disgraceful

Mussolinis daughter?!

oh boy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

One of Chinas problems was its officer corp was decimated during the battle of Shanghai in 1937, indeed some of there best units were wiped out, while losing like 4 soldiers for every 1 Japanese killed.

Japanese ultranationalists parties have the best names.

all of human history is just this. genocide after genocide after genocide after genocide after genocide after genocide after genocide after genocide...

0 history of democratic institutions, large amounts of paramilitary forces fighting for their own political ideas, a huge historical humiliation jerking up revanchism. Honestly it's a lot of the same issues the Weimar republic had.

Cause Chinese focused on family and way of living ( being harmless, respect family members, how you be a human, etc and not being harmful, barbaric, and so on )

frist🎉

China in their history always had infighting among themselves.

Manchuria was not part of “China”. Manchuria and China were controlled by the same regimes for a period of time.

God the comments are so political it's annoying

This part of chinese history is so chaotic that history teachers ofter just brush over by telling us the end results. Great effort my friend. Its just sad to know all those struggles to bring democracy to china ultimately ended in a communist takeover.

First

Third? 💅

REPUBLIC OF CHINA FOREVER!!!!

Long live Mao, Long live PRC

Where’s part 1-3?

the past war lord aera of china could be the future of russia and ukrain. nato should stop sending weapons independend of current politics.

God imagine if the KMT won the civil war. Imagine what China would look like without the great leap forward. My God so much of the world's issues really depended on who won the Chinese civil war.

I like how zhang straight up kidnapped chaing kai shek💀

God bless the British empire

Long live Israel

the more and more i learn about chinese history...im inclined to think the CCCP isnt that bad in retrospect. sure there were massacres and large scale famines, but compared to any one of the warring states periods where a quarter of a million deaths was the norm, or the warlords era with common massacres, bandits and the like.... china today is very peaceful in comparison

Obviously not