His Chinese historical title is pretty prestigious too.

He certainly would, several would qualify for such a title in Chinese history, Taizong of Tang, Wu of Han, and Kangxi + Qianlong of Qing, Kublai Khan and Yongle of Ming are likely candidates as well though it might be a little controversial

Actually for almost all emperors in chinese history, their titles are way way over the "The Great". For example, using Kangxi, his title after death is 合天弘運文武睿哲恭儉寬裕孝敬誠信功德大成仁皇帝. The title basically says he's a saint with almost all the great personality/traits of a human being.

Johny Ricco Kangxi in Manchu called Elhe Taifin Han; in Mongol called Engke Amuulang Qayan; in Tibetan called Bde Skyid. Dk much about Tibet language, the Manchu word Elhe means safe, Taifin means peace, Han means khan. So his era name should be safe and peace. In terms of Mongol, Engke = Elhe, Amuulang means peace also.

Kangxi The Great

I'm shaking my unshaven head over this video

Technically all our ancestors have shaven their heads, otherwise we wouldn"t exist. Those Manchus don't play around with that queue edict.

manchu not China

@Dave WA but before of their downfall, they leaded Chinese to conquer more territories, right? Of course, don't forget they origin as just evil as IJA during WW2.

More of Han nationalists which only consider Han, Song and Ming dynasty as the legitimate regimes.

Cause the narrator is a Putonghuanese

I thought I pronounce "Qing" right until now.

Who knows where does the picture in the beginning originate from? Damn cool.

@Timothy McCaskey 😂

Qing was the last Golden age if the Manchus, not F ing China. The Chinese and the nation of China was the slave of Manchu.

Then he starts dropping Chinese names like it's nothing.

eh... Han Wudi's reign is generally seen as a strategic failure. As while he turned the tide against the Xiongnu Empire and defeated them, he failed to actually secure peaceful relations or integrate/Sinocize them. As for Qin Shihuang, modern historians are of the opinion that the real credit goes to his predecessors. By the time Ying Zheng ascended to the throne, Qin was already the undisputed hedgemon of the warring states. Tang Taizong is generally seen as the most celebrated ruler of Imperial China, especially as the Tang dynasty had not just one, but TWO golden ages.

@@day2148 Han Wudi was way more comparable to Tang Taizong than you are admitting. You're forgetting Han Wudi's successful conquests of Nanyue in southwestern Chin and northern Vietnam and northern Korea with parts of Manchuria by conquering Gojoseon. He not only invaded Hellenistic Fergana in Central Asia but was responsible for establishing the Protectorate of the Western Regions over the Tarim Basin oasis city-states, in addition to colonizing Inner Mongolia and the Gansu Hexi corridor. You're downplaying the hell out of his military achievements for some reason.

I would say he is more Octavius then Julian.

I didn't know that he fought off a massive rebellion and a Mongol invasion at the same time. That is incrediable. Most rulers would have been easily destroyed by that.

@@day2148 Not really, geographical condition dictated that it was close to impossible to sinicize the steppes, or solve problems somewhat permanently. None of the dynasties afterwards succeeded in doing this for extended periods of time, the way of life and natural conditions were simply too different for assimilation. The Qing ruled Mongolia as sort of feudatory, and never tried to sinicize them, and that was with the Russians taking the north of what was traditionally nomad land. Complete peace with the steppe could only be achieved if you are willing to compromise and sent tributes. Defeating the Xiongnu was already a great achievement, as Xiongnu was the dominant power in East Asia. but Han Wudi not only fought the Xiongnu, he sent Zhangqian to travel to the West, all the way to Parthia and India. Before this China thought of itself as the only civilization in the world surrounded by barbarians. This was like Columbus's discovery of America and greatly broadening the horizon of the Chinese emperors, eventually leading to the opening of the silk road. He also doubled the realm's territory by conquering Nanyue, Minyue, the southwest and Joseon, effectively demarcating today's "Han" heartlands and secured Han as the dominant power of East Asia. He also made countless administrative reforms, for instance forcing all the feudal vassals to split lands equally among all heirs, which effectively eliminated big vassals that were the norm since the start of the Han dynasty. Unifying the ideology and monopolizing trade which gave the state huge mobilization power. Indeed in his later years overaggressive expansion had some severe consequences, but he laid the groundwork for the peak of the Han dynasty under Han Xuandi decades later, and created the overall framework of the state apparatus that much of his successors would continue to use. Overall there's little doubt that Han Wudi was among the most influential emperors of China, totally comparable to Li Shimin.

No its not. Shirvan or we riot

Also Shirvan's pronounciation of Chinese names hurts. Shirvan is good at geopolitics and ethnics, pronounciation however is not his strongest suit.

He has a channel

Thanks Alphastar ! I think pronounciation is important :)

@Ruth Mitt who tf r u ?

He sounds British Chinese to me, or possibly Hong Kong with a British education.

my girlfriend for whatever reason when we make love she goes from no chinese to fluent chinese

@@History_of_China curious as to how you acquired that 'accentless' accent. your French is good too, and i listen to French names from time to time.

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@Gamingsites i.e. pronounced 'ung' short 'u'.

@@1969cmp ong as in "long"

@@alexliu5806 Not according to my Hanyu teacher. 'A' has an 'uh' sound. A u has an 'oo' sound. O is like Hong Kong.

it like telling someone how to walk...who cares how someone walks

This is clearly what the video producer thinks, at any rate. Going to have to read up on this guy from some different sources as I feel as presented here this guy was just perfect. It stinks of bias.

​@@AntonQvarfordtso learned anything?

Well said

Well, today's society does not look kindly upon interesting historical hairstyles, especially ones that are long; it is seen as improper. However, I do not follow societal norms today, so I am in the process of growing out long hair, so I can do various things with it. When it gets long enough, I will definitely braid it on certain days. As for the shaved head, I won't be doing that, because their are other historical society people I fancy as well - not just the Manchus - that I would style myself after. That way, I could be a medieval knight, a Viking warrior, A Samurai, an Imperial Han Chinese warrior, etc. @S. Young

@@Daniel_Martin777 Why would you not want a peacock winter hat? Those things are wickedly cool. But also, I honestly don't know what the crown of a Roman emperor looks like.

Being a Chinese, i also always invest in Qing dynasty, those hats are for Qing government officials or the nobles. And if you want to differntiate their levels (1 to 9), you can distinguish the pearl's colour on top of their hat, red is for level 1 the highest, blue is level 2 to level 3 etc.... Also you can differentiate their levels from their uniforms, usually highest officials have a egret within a suqare painting in the middle of their uniform and their back also, lower levels have different animals etc. Fun fact is that the nobles, like the brothers of the emperors, or the princes, their middle is a circle drawing but not a square one. Hope you know more about Qing and China!

He is 25% mongolian

Remember everyone is related to mongolian

More direct relationship, her grandmother queen regent is Full mongolian princess, and her mongolian head servant was his nanny. He is fully influnced by mongol.

They're the exception to every rule in history.

Que the mongoltage

You made a typo fix it AAAAAAAAAAAA

Napoleon never said it, it is fabricated by Chinese.

Dejavuc Mail Lmfao. You have Google yet you couldn’t be bothered to use it and search the quote. You’re an idiot who does not use the search engines and look things up. Instead you resort to believing rumours people say to you and accepting everything the media spoon feeds in your mouth. Complete hopeless sheep without independent thought.

@@dejavucmail8176 yeah sure, everything we do is bad.

@@dejavucmail8176 CHECK THIS OUT www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1j3olp/did_napoleon_bonaparte_ever_actually_say_china/

History works in cycles

"History does not repeat, but rhymes". This is an important point to observe because unless Chinese people learn to analyse minute details, they are likely to remain careless about small but significant details, and hence likely to trail in science and technology, where details are extremely important.

The way the guy could not pronounce even "Taiwan" without an accent, I'm gonna guess he's bi-lingual :D

Thanks a lot ! I did 3 years in high shcool and have been practicing and perfecting every now and then since :)

Lol why is there always comments about how people speak. who cares if its right or wrong

@@vincrobinso2331 Because language is a *big* thing for Chinese. The status is similar to how in America we judge people based on clothes or cars. In China you are judged based on your penmanship, and your spoken tongue.

jyashin we judge a persons English skills also. The more educated you are the better your language skills usually are, in most cases.

lmao get triggered nerd

I agree. There's plenty of military artwork from the Qing period they could of used.

Tovarishch Simonov they also went from nomads to communists then back to ultra-nationalists/neo-nazis...

@@nehcooahnait7827 wait what? seriously? ......I am amazed they have electricity tbh

@@nehcooahnait7827 not really.ur .miss informed

@@Elenrai Have ever heard Manchurian nomads ?

I saw some Qin soldiers there haha

Qin soldiers and Japanese samurai lol

the ports ware more,Canton was made the only port in 1760s

4 ports, but several decades later, his grandson Emperor Qianlong reduced it to one, namely Canton.

or shall i say "standard chinese" a.k.a. "putonghua" pronunciations in present day parlance. "mandarin" is so Qing-time dated been derived from the Portuguese rendering of man-da-rin / Man da ren / the Manchu official.

It's Qianlong who order the genocide right?

Hello there !

Huge amount of errors though. Half of the Yurchen/Manchurian homeland is the Russian far east. Somehow the video made it like the Manchurian Empire took over parts of Russia. The Manchurian full on invasion into China, meant at times, the Manchurian homeland was rather depleted in terms of population, and that made it easy for the Russians to invade, though it is not a no-man's land like Russians would like to say. Also the Treaty of Nerchinksy is where the Manchurians basically traded Nothern Mongolian territory for their own homeland, and the Mongols forever lost their Lake Bakal and a lot more. The Manchurians would eventually let Han Chinese migrate to Manchuria, because of continued Russian pressure. The city of Kangding/Dattsedo was not under Tibetan control, those land is settled by Tibetan people ( with Qianchic people and Han Chinese ), but their chiefs pledged alligiance to Chinese court since the Ming Dynasty, and half of Kangding population was already Chinese as it is today. The incidence is treated as a rebellian from the Chinese POV and recorded as such.

@Troll Not حمد لله

Included Taiwan, Tibet and Uigyur. if stay to Ming, China half small than today with no Taiwan, taiwan will be part of Philippine or own country with Austronesian people like Philippine, Brunei, Timor, Malaysia and Indonesia.

Safuwan Fauzi Yelp! But Manchu killed more than 2/3 Han people and many other races people in China, just because they wished to keep their traditions (hair styling and clothing )! Manchu said “Hair or head, only keep one”, and more people who have backbone choose hair. It’s a devastating blow to Chinese culture. That is why Qing historical drama is popular in China now and I stills don’t watch.

Come on atleast qing dynasty have 3 good emperors ( kangxi , yongzheng and qianlong ) To bad qian long during his late reign hired corrupt and evil officals such as heshen !! Yuan dynasty only have 1 decent ruler ( khubilai khan) and the mongol are way more racist than the qing they put the southern han chinese ( those former subject of southern song dynasty) in lowest caste Ming dynasty despite having good emperor many of them died young ( example , hongxi emperor , xuande emperor) and those who enjoyed long reign are incompetent shit !!! Example jiajing emperor who are way to focust on immortality stuffs , and lazy fat face wanli

@@user-bk9tl3pt5c Machu hair style is ugly. and sad, Machu homeland lost to Russian in Amur up to Sakhalin. if Machu not banned any Han Chinese, Korean, Evenki, and Mongol to Amur Russian will thinking 2x because Chinese have large population,

Alfian Prabowo WOW, you know lots of China history, where are you from? Yes, Qing had three good emperors, but but they closed the door of China, missed the industrial revolution, ruined China week. Then the Opium war opened China market, at that time the rest of the world still thought that China was the hegemon in Asia as before, and they still trade with China, until Qing totally lost the sino Japanese Naval war, everyone knew China is a paper tiger then, trade became rob.That’s the beginning of miserable modern history. That’s why I don’t like this corrupt and incapable dynasty.

Maybe he's overseas Chinese

I'm actually from France ^_^

@@History_of_China no wonder your French is well.

Thanks a lot !

*Self-Beautify/Glorified Europeans, obviously: with all the lighting, ceremonial dress, dominating front facing center stage (and is possibly spitting out the same narcissistic "Qing Dynasty will collapse" propaganda, that we have been hearing for hundreds of years now lol)*

Xarus Man I think the main confusion is that most channels introduce new hosts in a separate video and here we just have a new voice.

stfu Xerus ...new narrator is simple bad at it

@@drazenkunovic5168 I thought he did a great job on this one. I quite enjoyed it.

The Manchus would like to disagree with you.

jjtc Well can I say I’m manchu? Though I’m actually ethnically Chinese?

@@hwasiaqhan8923 Yes of course you can, if you are Manchu. Chinese is not technically an ethnicity, Han or Manchu is. That's why people say ethnic Han Chinese, precisely to distinguish from other Chinese ethnicities.

jjtc No, Chinese is an ethnicity, Manchus corrupted the meaning, prior to Qing 中華/China was an exclusive name Han Chinese had for themselves.

Yes, where is Shirvan?

@@zhaoxunyan4016 Kangxi Targaryen Emperor: WHERE IS MY SHIRVAN??!!

about 95 KM south west of Baku and 40 KM west of the Caspian Sea :-p

@@longcorridors He better be, or he'll face the same fate as the Dzungars once Kangxi gets a hold of him for being dodgy and passive aggressively avoiding us, his loyal audience!

Shirvan is the one who writes all these videos and puts them together. Even when he isn't doing the voice overs, he hasn't gone anywhere. There's no need to worry that he's been replaced or something; he's the one who owns Caspian Report haha

反淸复明!!!!

'elegant and sophisticated' as in they added a ton of arbitrary rules to make up for themselves being considered a 'barbaric' ethnic group by the ethnic han chinese.

apparently he was bought up and advised by a very fine Mongolian grandmother.

HERETIC!!!!!!

I prefer Shirvan, but he's still a good narrator.

rui shao that territory belongs to Khalkha Mongols who are majority of Modern Mongolia. Lake Baikal never belonged to China.

@@zolboobayarulziisaikhan561 If exclude Yuan dynasty, I agree Lake Baikal used to belong to Hun tribes for centuries. Please note it was from 630-682 in Tang Dynasty, Lake Baikal belonged to China central government directly. Link: www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiI5uC3hJniAhX78KYKHQaKBukQjRx6BAgBEAU&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.quora.com%2FWhat-was-the-extent-of-the-Tang-Dynasty&psig=AOvVaw34GW99A2IkHHQKwJkG5BCG&ust=1557855046985221

@Hernando Malinche ha ha

She's awake , mate.

Afiq Irfan it’s literally impossible for you to have seen the entire video at this point

Holy shit you have your familys paperwork in order! Being a lowborn I can barely trace 300 years back without the lines being utterly blurred so being able to go 14 generations back is impressive!

@@Elenrai don't feel bad. this well kept family tree is the work of a clan committee through the ages. also we were heavily prosecuted during the cultural revolution. today Han supremacists and chinese nationalists still calls my ancestor and I Han-traitors whenver I reveal my ancestry.

@@Elenrai There are many families that have lasted for thousands of years in China. My family's genealogy records for more than 2000 years, the descendants of the royal family of the Shang Dynasty.

In Chinese history buffs' community, Qianlong is more of a meh as compared to other great emperors. Though he's definitely a competent, and a one with good intentions emperor, he's too occupied in persecuting intellectuals which inspired more dissents. And under his reign, He Shen who is often considered the most corrupted government official in Chinese history emerged. It was said that his personal wealth rivaled Qing's national account at the time. Some say Qianlong actually set the stage for Qing's downfall.

@@Telopead I read some things about corruption spiking under his rule aswell, where is this community where they discuss chinese history?

Because Chinese is shameful to admit foreigners did it better than them.

Comments also, some of it is from the opium wars and even later conflicts

Purevjargal Puujee Who am I? I’m Aisin Gioro’s friendly neighbor. Your majesty Aisin Gioro is living as a normal Chinese, kneel you fool

HHAHAHA because Qing weren't ethnically Han Chinese, they were Manchu origin (close to the Mongols or the Siberian Turks)

pozk 16661 I am not talking about blood, Qing considered themselves as inherit “the Mandate of Heaven in China” from previous dynasty Ming. That’s why it is a part of Chinese civilisation. China’s civilisation is not only Han’s civilisation, you maybe confuse about Hans and Chinese. Hans are the main group but China has more than 56 races. THEY ARE ALL CHINESE.

@@user-bk9tl3pt5c i am sorry, but the idea of 56 races only occurred after the 1900. therefore, manchurians during the qing empire should not be considered chinese. Also, russians and koreas are also part of the 56 races. if your logic is right, then china also has the right to claim russia and korea as their own.

My ancestors are from the Tang Dynasty..they helped Tang Dynasty rise to power...

Thanks a lot :)

Ming was conquered by Li Zicheng and his Shun army.

@@wilhelmreinhardt4643 In some ways more accurate, but Li Zicheng sacked Beijing and saw off the Chongzhen Emperor, but the Ming would regroup in the south and continue on until they were defeated by the Qing a few years later; nonetheless, it was a rump state that struggled to carry on.

Christopher Heselton And Wu Sengui opened the gate of Great Wall and betrayed Ming.

And Li Zicheng is a Tangut descendant. Li is a royal last name of Xi Xia Taugut kingdom annexed by Chingis Khan in 1227 AD. But the descendants were still living in the area of Northern Shannxi / Gansu / Ningxia. Most Han Chinese textbooks treat Li Zicheng as a Han Chinese rebel leader but ignored that Li is a Tangut. The province today Ningxia literally means "pacified xia", the name part Xia means the old kingdom Xi Xia (western xia) realms.

Operation Barbarossa.

Agreed

Yep, Qing ruined China from the strongest nation to the “sick country of Eastern Asia ”

@@user-bk9tl3pt5c Qing didnt' ruin China. It just couldn't innovate as the west did.

smd. song dynasty is one of the worse empires ever existed in the whole history of the world. Garbage emperors favored scholars over the military and twisted the people's views towards the importance of military power. which directly resulted in the fall of itself and the ming empire to the barbarians. The emperor's wives and daughters were captured and insulted by the barbarians infront of his face, but i guess thats just karma for the family. shames the whole china

Umm Trump?

Andrew Yang for sure