Born in exactly that year, I am so grateful to the filmmaker for reserving such precious footages. The nostalgic streets, housings, daily lives, and dialects. It's doggy hot summer now in Shanghai and back in those days, we will all go out to sit on bamboo stools, couches, and even beds in the open spaces like squares, streets, alleys, small yards. Children playing around in the street lights, adults chatting or even drinking (usually water) together. In the end of the 1970's, some places even had TV sets that everyone can watch, most of them are only equipped with a 9 inch screen.
@4403323 Жыл бұрын
Our first TV set had a 9 inch black and white screen.
@courtly5982 Жыл бұрын
in the other recording I heard shanghaineese dialect, The accent is a bit different from modern shanghai dialect
@courtly5982 Жыл бұрын
Im Shanghainese, but could you explain is it normal that the video's shanghai dialect sounds different?
@Dr.Charlie89Ай бұрын
@@courtly5982 Which paragraph?
@devilxelloss11 жыл бұрын
Born in early 80's in Shanghai, the memories of my childhood is quite close to most of things shown in this clip - except the culture revolution was already over, lucky me. The soul of Shanghai in 80's had changed again. The western culture influence was back again in all shapes and forms. I remember my uncles listening to Laura Branigan's Self Control and going to disco. And I miss the breakfast shown in the clip, yum!
@galaxy-star-me Жыл бұрын
Unfortunately , China now is retarded back to Mao's era !
@ART445549112 жыл бұрын
OH MY GOSH I know every one of those dancers and teachers personally. They are in their 70s now, it's strange to see them so young!!!!
@user-XuJin6 жыл бұрын
I am the director in Shanghai TV Station . Could you please have some contact with Wu’s family and Shanghai Tv station ,we can have another interview with them. Thanks
@markboudreau14103 жыл бұрын
That was what, the late 60's? Seems so long ago now! You must have seen considerable change during your life!
@anwaarulhaq99063 жыл бұрын
@@user-XuJin how may i contact you , can you share your wechat ?
@user-XuJin3 жыл бұрын
@@anwaarulhaq9906 13817944324 Xu
@user-XuJin3 жыл бұрын
@@anwaarulhaq9906 13817944324 Xu
@tonyli32029 жыл бұрын
"History shows that sooner or later every revolution turns conservative. The culture revolution as Mao's monumental attempt to stop that from happening in china, for that moment he had succeeded. But this is China, which for a thousand years has absorbed shock after shock, from Mongols to Manchus, from imperialism to communism. Communism is changing china, but China is also changing communism; the largest state in the world never change its state of mind completely. We have seen a fragment for a moment, and that moment may already be gone." This one is my favorite.
@fugyaself21333 жыл бұрын
History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of man.
@shitmagnet51366 жыл бұрын
Thanks for all these videos. It's like stepping back in time.
@musAKulture5 жыл бұрын
the professor chose his words EXTREMELY carefully. amazing.
@Johnnysgaming10102 жыл бұрын
and the co-worker is also extremely nervous about what he said
@xiaofangmi6747 жыл бұрын
make me miss my grandmother so much..they all look very elegant even in bad financial condition at that period
@isoldel93133 жыл бұрын
it's such a precious documentary... I have aunts who were born very poor during that era now became a famous doctor and buying properties worth a few million dollars, the change for them is unimaginable.
@learning28003 жыл бұрын
Just discovered your channel this morning excellent and exceptional informative, thank you so much , will certainly watch everything on your channel.
@michaelijsbrand11 жыл бұрын
Thanks. I have tried to make my clips available in China, but do not know how. I cannot read their characters either. KZfaq gives no figures of Chinese viewers except for Hong Kong.
@wuniwanzi6 жыл бұрын
your clips are really amazing for all the Chinese people,thx
@sydneyshanghaiman6 жыл бұрын
it's not hard, I will check out those similar websites in china.
@louisz20126 жыл бұрын
I think the video has been updated thank you!
@realchinese98346 жыл бұрын
this movie clip was not recorded 45 years ago, i believe its in the end of 1970s (1977-79) which is 35 years to the video you posted,
@gabyu4 жыл бұрын
I've took the initiative to download the film and show to my friends in Shanghai. A slow process, as slow as the water flowing in the Suzhou river :)
@hebianniu10 жыл бұрын
good good ,非常珍贵的视频。
@musicisanalog7 жыл бұрын
hey' ni hao!
@kohlyanggmail3 жыл бұрын
very interesting video, I studied in Shanghai, visited fudan once as well, though born in a nearby city, but local dialect reminds me so much about when I was there
@user-dv8dg8im6m5 жыл бұрын
那时候虽然穷,但是活的很开心。
@stillfindings2 жыл бұрын
They are in in abject poverty, I feel sad watching this, they are our fathers, mother, grandfather, and mother, Shanghai changed a lot right now, but we never forget the past, and think why we were in that situation, and what should we do to stop us back to the past. Thank you for posting.
@SnkrsandCards11 жыл бұрын
It would be so cool to see how the Wu family is doing now! Shanghai 40years after!
@bush-b53302 жыл бұрын
The elders at least must be dead! Oh and your comment is 9 years old😮😱
@sydneyshanghaiman6 жыл бұрын
that's my mother town, and my memories of childhood. thanks!
@user-yn7cv9nx6m2 жыл бұрын
感谢你的记录,记录了过去的上海
@lcchen00811 жыл бұрын
The students spoke very good English, at that time.
@sunair484210 жыл бұрын
I am a Chinese, see dozens of years ago in China, sensory changes too big, very glad to see your work, you are welcome to China
@r64g2 жыл бұрын
I grew up in a city 300km from Shanghai in the 1970s. Unlike in this documentary, 1973 was a time of shortages. I vividly remember shortages and rationing in cooking oil, meat, sugar, tofu (any soy protein products), cigarette, or even matches. Soy sauce was one of the few things that wasn't rationed. Rice/wheat were rationed, with adult male, female, elderly and child each with a specific allotted amount per month. When purchasing cereal-based food, even at a restaurant (a rare luxury for most), cereal rationing coupons along with money must be spent in exchange for the food.
@user-ck3hr7fn6z2 жыл бұрын
Yes, the living standard of the "normal people" shown in this film is significantly higher than average Chinese people's living standard at that time. Just as "8 of 10 Chinese people are producing food" implied, this film only shows that 2/10 urban people.
@realchinese98342 жыл бұрын
Can't you see the people in the documentary were pre-set, remember this is during culture revolution, a foreigner wouldn't be easily allowed to interview people without government's permission.
@defendfreedom13902 жыл бұрын
Foreign film-makers were only allowed to see and to film the well-fed people.
@chengyaohe6639 Жыл бұрын
No , Different place are different. Especially Shanghai!!! Shanghai is total different with any city in mainland China. There are no compare!
@user-qwertyuiopasdfghj7 ай бұрын
Yes I am 100 percent sure my parents were not living as well as those Beijing and Shanghai urban people did at that time, maybe starving, except houses are much bigger in smaller cities.
@user-qt2gn5yh1l10 жыл бұрын
now I see what my moms childhood looks like. so cool :)
@milhouse9016 жыл бұрын
Same
@finalboss47735 жыл бұрын
This is the life they dreamed of.
@meharry611 жыл бұрын
Your videos are fantastic! My family and I really have enjoyed watching it. Thank you!
@markboudreau14103 жыл бұрын
I can't believe you were there to capture all this on film! Thank you!
@michaelijsbrand3 жыл бұрын
I wasn't. Someone else took it.
@markboudreau14103 жыл бұрын
@@michaelijsbrand Aww Geez! Now you ruined the whole thing for me.😞😉
@Daniel-fl5oq2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for your share this picture.
@kesharkhadkapunwar20293 жыл бұрын
Thanks!! I was so nice to watch and know about the chinese of early days!! 🇳🇵Love from Nepal !!!
@musicisanalog7 жыл бұрын
as an American business man I've been living in shanghai since 1997...the changes are incredible' some of the changes are for the worse, they keep destroying some of the most beautiful architecture...but' oh what a city!!!!
@pania39525 жыл бұрын
Oingo Boingo a Business man lived in a socialist city how ironically
@AHHUAT210 жыл бұрын
Shanghai have some of the best athletes in China, like Yao Ming and Lui Xiang. Maybe because it has a better living conditions since the old days and people get to be fed enough. The cultivation of western classical music also took an important place in modern china (after communist rule). Even today, classical music lessons are as important in Chinese schools. Many Chinese music students left for Europe and US to specialise in music and become musicians there.
@ladycharsw5 жыл бұрын
The families always seem happy eating and laughing. Like the families in HongKingn . living in their junks. Laughing putting the kids in bed. Then the adults plays theur games in a little tabe to relax when the chores are done. I like Oriental peoples. I have friends that are Chinese.May God Bless. Thanks
@GIN.356.A4 жыл бұрын
"oriental peoples"...Im going to assume you are from an older generation who hasn't realized the connotation of that word has changed
@truth97585 жыл бұрын
It was Not Deng Xiaoping that created Shenzhen. Mao has already established foreign relationship with the UK and Germany and also started to establish relationship with the US before he died by meeting President Nixon in 1972. The formal ritual was delayed by Nixon's step down due to Watergate Scandal, then Mao's successors kept working on it till 1979 formally completely established. Again, Hua guo feng, Hu Yaobang, Zhao ziyang had already planned to make Shenzhen a new economic development zone for a try and he had sent three business and scientific delegations in different times in 1977 and early 1978 to Europe to observe and study the advance technical skills and managements. Deng Xiaoping, like Cixi, took over the power from Hua Guo feng and gloried himself for everything. In fact, the only thing he did was not stopping the openpolicy. But in his days, he ruined China environment, disordered the civilized harmony social orders, and made Chinese people have no goodness in business conduction, behaving like wild animals without grace manners. I am glad that Xi jingling made the environment better and the social order better today.
@musAKulture5 жыл бұрын
the woman student has such a distinct shanghai accent when speaking english wow. sounds exactly like my ex's mom, from the exact same region at the exact same age.
@dgu26 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much to share and I would recommend this clip to friends.
@kostasalmaliotis722611 ай бұрын
Tjis China is totally different from the China today. When I see on youtube the China today with the China of those years, I have only admire the huge steps you have done as Chinese since 70's until today to progress. Blessing people.
@White-Yellow-Music2 жыл бұрын
My partner is from mainland China. These interviews are no longer possible. It is very sad.
@feifei56610 жыл бұрын
1953 I was in shanghai .I still remember that time so poor.
@lilychu846010 жыл бұрын
Interesting :)
@shanghainesetv39928 жыл бұрын
usually we won't simply describe in which period is poor or not. This is typical Chinese thinking
@musicisanalog7 жыл бұрын
i,m 65 and have going back and forth shanghai and the USA..were u born in shanghai ? i now live in xujiahui. district of shanghai, .as an American business man..i sooo' love the Chinese and the country, shanghai is my 2nd home.
@goognamgoognw66377 жыл бұрын
Shanghai must have been most beautiful before world war two. in 1953 after the war it must have been a difficult place to live.
@michaelijsbrand7 жыл бұрын
See my prewar clips of Shanghai by searching with 'michael rogge shanghai'
Fascinating how fast things have changed then and even now a little over 2 generations ago
@luisramon83225 жыл бұрын
very interesting documentary to understand China transformation in the last 45 years through hard work and education, very disciplined people.
@CottonHogs6 жыл бұрын
I've read Life & Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng. The neutrality toward the end of this video surprised me.
@gegigoh5 жыл бұрын
30 years ago I bought this book. Read it too.
@bluefloorsmile53889 жыл бұрын
An very young and confident Xu Jingxian at 15:45, Shanghai's third mayor then.
@musicisanalog7 жыл бұрын
yup' ur correct...he was going to Beijing twice a month for indoctrination...although a true communist. he was a very good mayor.
@DavidisDawei5 жыл бұрын
And then Deng Xiaoping created Shenzhen and in many ways China has become more capitalistic than any Western country today
@truth97585 жыл бұрын
DavidisDawei Shit, not Deng Xiaoping created Shenzhen. Mao has started to establish relationship with the US before he died by meeting President Nixon in 1972. The formal ritual was delayed by Nixon's step down due to Watergate Scandal, then Mao's successors kept working on it till 1979 formally completely established. Again, Hua guo feng, Hu Yaobang, Zhaoziyang have made the plan to make Shenzhen a new economic development zone for a try and he had sent three delegations in different times in 1977 and early 1978 to Europe to observe and study the advance technical skills and managements. Deng Xiaoping, like Cixi, took over the power from Hua Guo feng and gloried himself for everything.
@EvangelineLawrence11 жыл бұрын
Hello, I really have enjoyed watching the videos on your channel and thank you for sharing them. I am working on a video project and would love to use a few clips. I was wondering whether this would be possible? It would be greatly appreciated.
@anking76628 жыл бұрын
到吴家采访了。
@skyperfectjp11 жыл бұрын
really enjoy your channel, have you let the footages available in china other than youtube?
@billco735 жыл бұрын
I was just in Shanghai and I really like that city. Before I had a drink at Starbucks, I looked for clothes at Abercrombie and Fitch.
@cinnamondan49843 жыл бұрын
The Cultural Revolution description reminds me of what happened with Trump in January
@lofinotion11 жыл бұрын
Shanghai, my home town
@courtly5982 Жыл бұрын
11:58 they are singing a variant of the beiyang army song, the 3 principle and 8 notices,
@haoshanduan63144 жыл бұрын
好可爱的一家人
@mrzack88812 жыл бұрын
wow, thanks for this video.
@leoyuanluo3 жыл бұрын
Sounds like culture revolution gave the student a sense of purpose
@michaelijsbrand11 жыл бұрын
I'm awaiting their response. Of so few persons in my 820 clips do I know their subsequent fate.
@NuNu-px7bv5 жыл бұрын
This lady spoke so standard shanghainess you can't hear in ShangHai nowdays!
@theunitedof5 жыл бұрын
How do Shanghainese speak now? Slang?
@jayra25137 жыл бұрын
it would be an experience to meet the students in 14.17.
@jedhuang38176 жыл бұрын
Great video!!
@bush-b53302 жыл бұрын
17:22 "Communism is changing china but china is also changing communism....we have seen a fragment for a moment but that moment might already be gone!" what a wonderful and deep observation! Mao died three years later and the rest is history
@tedsun85004 жыл бұрын
thank you.
@cellohm3 жыл бұрын
the shanghai today is like an empty shell of its former self. the soul is no longer there.
@user-ff6ce6gs4q5 жыл бұрын
你们有想过40年前的40前是怎样的吗?
@Tiger-px8ru2 жыл бұрын
二战逼近
@user-sx1tl3ou4y5 жыл бұрын
thank you!~~michael!~~~
@zhubajie69407 жыл бұрын
A good documentary of a bad time. It helps to understand the Lost Generation of China.
@fenxian11 ай бұрын
The video pictures true colour of Shanghai in 70s. "Family pool of income 90 RMB, 1/3 in food..." well fed 3-5 person include grandpa or grandma, a token in rent, but housing crowded, same as HK.
@xiuwenyin6439 Жыл бұрын
一个穷得起,也富得起的伟大坚强的中华民族!
@stankiewicz19924 жыл бұрын
People seems more happy than now......Why?
@chrisleon272 жыл бұрын
1973 still in the late stage of culture revolution
@wangxiaoyong51103 жыл бұрын
Newton's Law told us, that mass has inertia. The greater the mass is, the greater the inertia will have. For a nation, the inertia is the history and tradition. The longer the history is, the harder for changes to be made.
@Sora-vw8cz7 ай бұрын
First, inertia does not mean stoped. Second, i think ur brain has inertia.
@shreyashshrivastava63892 жыл бұрын
The development might not be there But just see the cleanliness
@fenxian4 ай бұрын
Shanghai same as Hongkong, people live in slum house. If you go to Beijing, Chongqing Chengdu, or most other cities, a different story.
@hoppinggnomethe4154 Жыл бұрын
2:13 these toys' quality is higher than many cheap Chinese toys nowadays
@tenlee47446 жыл бұрын
Not only shanghai all around the world many poor people at that time.
@ladycharsw5 жыл бұрын
I never saw this video. Maybe the mother and father is still alive as well as the kids. Thanks
@deshancharuka77373 жыл бұрын
I am sir lanka . New 2021
@acmelka Жыл бұрын
The gap between Shanghai in the 1970s and today is like New York today vs 1920. Not talking so much about technology.. rather everything .
@kshikding11 жыл бұрын
Now i know my home better ~ thanks :)
@rosofficesolutionsinc15723 жыл бұрын
Interesting how the students then were taught and spoke good English
@richardlee19182 жыл бұрын
the boy and girl in the video are more than 50 years old
@violetagardenia Жыл бұрын
Their english level is 💯❤️
@sae46223 жыл бұрын
我妈妈十几岁的时代
@6231823698 жыл бұрын
我发现那个时候上海人普遍龅牙啊。。。有相关解释吗?
@user-yb8kp8zb9v8 жыл бұрын
eating habit, 南方人喜欢吃软的,日本人至今都是这样。
@chrisgriffin28576 жыл бұрын
人种问题,本地上海人都是一帮劣等垃圾,没有外地人进入帮助他们改良基因他们哪有现在的模样
@danielzhao61815 жыл бұрын
方便吃大闸蟹
@user-xu4zb4gj2m5 жыл бұрын
Peter Griffin 你们这又臭又穷又脏又丑的北方蛮族侉子也配来上海?臭不要脸
@Cosmopolit907 жыл бұрын
Back in the days when everybody was kung fu fighting...
@thespartan8476 Жыл бұрын
Imagine how advanced and peaceful Humanity would have been with out the Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, French, English, Scottish, Turkey, United states, Germans, Italians.
@Glrk102 жыл бұрын
I’m thinking that little red book the revolutionaries are waving around is not anything by Ayn Rand.
@Theo_Theemuts12 жыл бұрын
Dank u voor deze unieke beelden (u bent toch nederlands, ik las over u in de volkskrant)
@philchinamusical2 жыл бұрын
An interesting fact: despite what the people said in this footage, many Chinese, especially those in Shanghai and Beijing already stopped believing in the Culture Revolution. It started 2 years before this film was shot, when the number one deputy of Mao Zedong was killed in a air crash during his escape from China. Lin Biao, which is his name, rose to the 2nd in command during the Culture Revolution, and was regarded as the "closest student and comrade of Chairman Mao", as well as the successor to Mao. So his betray and death was a huge blow to the image of Mao and his project. Fortunately, Mao died too, years after this film.
@raleghfilms12 жыл бұрын
Wow, show this to any Chinese person who lived through that and watch them weep. Shanghai in 1973 was poor, decrepit and beset by political chaos, this 'report' is pure propaganda. Who on earth were these 'journalists', fellow-travellers or just naive and hampered by their government handlers? Were they the friendly crew invited over by the Chinese government to 'balance' Antonioni's film which they hadn't liked? Ask anyone in Shanghai if they prefer then or now, go on.
@truth97585 жыл бұрын
I like Mao's day much more than it is today in China. Back then, life has no pressure, blue sky green mountains, people treat people nicely. no need to lock the door at night.
@Sheerspeechcraft5 жыл бұрын
❤Mao❤
@eric123abacus5 жыл бұрын
Why does the narrator sound so biased?
@Marzy58215 жыл бұрын
Deep down the "system" has made them very unhappy indeed.
@liujet126610 жыл бұрын
good
@k.cooper88165 жыл бұрын
9:08 that sounds hard...
@leealex242 жыл бұрын
Chinese is the most pragmatic race in the world. You can see not just in China, but, the diaspora around the world
@ma.t91262 жыл бұрын
باید فکر کرد. همه آنهایی که در فیلم هستن .الان معلوم نیست زنده هستند یا نه. ما هم یه روز خواهیم مرد. این خیلی مهم است.