Great video! This was just what I was looking for. For anyone interested in further study of Sino-Japanese relations in the first half of the 20th century, I highly recommend Barbara W. Tuchman's Pulitzer Prize winning masterpiece Stillwell And The American Experience In China. I promise you it will blow your mind. In fact, anything by Tuchman will always be the best book you've ever read. (No, I'm not Barbara Tuchman)
People judge sitting in front of a monitor but no one can fathom the desperation and indignation of Chinese during those days. This was a total war, Chiang on Lu Mountain announced his intention, this was a line in the sand, no more.
your videos are very informative and its what i was after when i searched this, but i feel like if you wanted to be competitive in terms of views, you should think about shortening the video a little and using more infographics and pictures and videos. really informative, good luck with your channel
@@Asianometry - Also edit the many, *many* voice over gaffes. Constructive criticism aside, I've subscribed, hoping for more and even better content! Cheers and congrats.
This was a complete utter disaster, that went down in the history books as the largest man-made disaster in history. They deliberately destroyed their own people and towns in a desperate attempt to slow down the Japanese advance, but the Japanese just ended up going around the flood lol. There was hardly any disruption for the Japanese. This deliberate destruction of environment would result in 900,000 Chinese deaths, the destruction of millions of buildings, and ultimately displace 12,000,000+ Chinese from their homes. None of this stopped the Japanese, it was only until the Japanese surrendered to the US is that the Chinese were saved. Without the US, China would cease to exist as we know it. Furthermore, after the war, it is ironic that the Chinese claim that the Japanese did all these massacres, yet it is the Chinese who end up killing the most Chinese. Mao Zedong alone was responsible for the death of 50,000,000 Chinese, far more than what the Japanese army could ever do.
@@stefanjoeres7149 Unfounded. Ah, but you people are nowhere to be seen to shout "over-estimation" when it comes to Japanese war crimes? When there's actual proof for this, why is that? For example let's take the most famous CCP fairytale, The Nanking massacre: In December of 1937 the police census stated the population of the city to be 200,000. Various European primary sources like news reporters and ambassadors put the total at 150,000-200,000 people living in the city. Yet the Chinese communists claim they killed 300,000? How do you do that?
No reasoning could ever justify the brutality of the Japanese, especially not the attempt of Nationalist China to hold off the Japanese for 5 months. After all, had the Japanese not invaded, the Chiang would not have flooded the area. If this made the communists more popular, and killed more people than the Japanese would have killed, that is a legitimate criticism.
it's easy to sit in front of your computer today and judge whether the move justify the consequences, but back then, there was very limited options for Chiang to stop an enemy that just committed genocide against his own people and aim to 'enslave' his whole nation. the flood did successfully stopped the japanese from advancing, significantly reduced the resource can be gathered for its military use, and make the land difficult for the japanese to occupy. perhaps a japanese colonized china was the best outcome for the second sino-japanese war in humanitarian perspective, or was it? ask anyone over 90-year old from japanese occupied territories in ww2, and hear what they have to say. again, should wait for more 'first hand' information from Chiang's dairy
@@Asianometry It's really sad. The Japanese were just 50km away. The other alternative would have been the capture of the government and forced surrender of China to Japan, which would have been disastrous for all the Allies. And where were the communists who claimed that they ‘led’ the war effort?
This was a complete utter disaster, that went down in the history books as the largest man-made disaster in history. They deliberately destroyed their own people and towns in a desperate attempt to slow down the Japanese advance, but the Japanese just ended up going around the flood lol. There was hardly any disruption for the Japanese. This deliberate destruction of environment would result in 900,000 Chinese deaths, the destruction of millions of buildings, and ultimately displace 12,000,000+ Chinese from their homes. None of this stopped the Japanese, it was only until the Japanese surrendered to the US is that the Chinese were saved. Without the US, China would cease to exist as we know it. Furthermore, after the war, it is ironic that the Chinese claim that the Japanese did all these massacres, yet it is the Chinese who end up killing the most Chinese. Mao Zedong alone was responsible for the death of 50,000,000 Chinese, far more than what the Japanese army could ever do.
@@leogazebo5290 you're a weeb and only listen to All-lies sources. The evidence of Japanese humanitarian aid to Chinese civilians absolutely mogs that of the counter claim.
This isn't talked about nearly enough.
That's because of the CCP. It's the same reason the Holodomor in Ukraine and Stalin's purges weren't talked about during the Soviet-era.
@@dritemolawzbks8574That’s incorrect. The KMT were the ones who did this, not the CCP. They have every reason to use this to discredit them.
Great content, a history most people forget about the sino-japanese war.
Why don’t you have more views...
However I think I subscribed for the 3rd time just now, maybe that’s why
it's the microphone, it scared the shi out of me when he started 😅
Great video! This was just what I was looking for. For anyone interested in further study of Sino-Japanese relations in the first half of the 20th century, I highly recommend Barbara W. Tuchman's Pulitzer Prize winning masterpiece Stillwell And The American Experience In China. I promise you it will blow your mind. In fact, anything by Tuchman will always be the best book you've ever read. (No, I'm not Barbara Tuchman)
Tuchman’s book has been debunked by recent historians actually, like Oxford don, Rana Mitter.
People judge sitting in front of a monitor but no one can fathom the desperation and indignation of Chinese during those days. This was a total war, Chiang on Lu Mountain announced his intention, this was a line in the sand, no more.
Since you judge people that sit in front of their monitor while literallly doing the same, I wonder what you can fathom.
Hard to justify this but you sure did try
Save the people…by drowning them.
Cope harder Chinese boy, no matter what way you look at this historical event (That should be talked about more), you guys were braindead failures.
@@yorktown58against the Japanese everything was justified
Very informative video. Thank you.
your videos are very informative and its what i was after when i searched this, but i feel like if you wanted to be competitive in terms of views, you should think about shortening the video a little and using more infographics and pictures and videos. really informative, good luck with your channel
also god dam you make alot of videos, put that effort into 1 video, quality > quantity \
Thanks for the advice. I doubt this stuff will ever get generally popular. I do these just for the enjoyment. Have a good day.
@@Asianometry - Also edit the many, *many* voice over gaffes. Constructive criticism aside, I've subscribed, hoping for more and even better content! Cheers and congrats.
37 is really when WW2 started
Thanks for the informative video
Thanks for sharing in English 🙏
This was a complete utter disaster, that went down in the history books as the largest man-made disaster in history. They deliberately destroyed their own people and towns in a desperate attempt to slow down the Japanese advance, but the Japanese just ended up going around the flood lol. There was hardly any disruption for the Japanese.
This deliberate destruction of environment would result in 900,000 Chinese deaths, the destruction of millions of buildings, and ultimately displace 12,000,000+ Chinese from their homes. None of this stopped the Japanese, it was only until the Japanese surrendered to the US is that the Chinese were saved. Without the US, China would cease to exist as we know it.
Furthermore, after the war, it is ironic that the Chinese claim that the Japanese did all these massacres, yet it is the Chinese who end up killing the most Chinese. Mao Zedong alone was responsible for the death of 50,000,000 Chinese, far more than what the Japanese army could ever do.
50 Million is an overestimation. And it's not actually *far* more than the Japanese killed.
@@stefanjoeres7149 Unfounded. Ah, but you people are nowhere to be seen to shout "over-estimation" when it comes to Japanese war crimes? When there's actual proof for this, why is that?
For example let's take the most famous CCP fairytale, The Nanking massacre:
In December of 1937 the police census stated the population of the city to be 200,000. Various European primary sources like news reporters and ambassadors put the total at 150,000-200,000 people living in the city. Yet the Chinese communists claim they killed 300,000? How do you do that?
No reasoning could ever justify the brutality of the Japanese, especially not the attempt of Nationalist China to hold off the Japanese for 5 months. After all, had the Japanese not invaded, the Chiang would not have flooded the area. If this made the communists more popular, and killed more people than the Japanese would have killed, that is a legitimate criticism.
Thank-you 🙏!
Who’s here because of Matthew Santoro?! Amazing Facts
I believe what Guanyu used was the Yangtze river instead of the yellow river...
Do battle of Shanghai next!
it's easy to sit in front of your computer today and judge whether the move justify the consequences, but back then, there was very limited options for Chiang to stop an enemy that just committed genocide against his own people and aim to 'enslave' his whole nation.
the flood did successfully stopped the japanese from advancing, significantly reduced the resource can be gathered for its military use, and make the land difficult for the japanese to occupy.
perhaps a japanese colonized china was the best outcome for the second sino-japanese war in humanitarian perspective, or was it? ask anyone over 90-year old from japanese occupied territories in ww2, and hear what they have to say.
again, should wait for more 'first hand' information from Chiang's dairy
I didn’t find anything on his thinking but I feel the script is pretty clear that the Nationalists were in a bad way.
It'd be nice to see the Japanese drag China into endless warring states.
Nanking and Korea proved that it's probably not the best in the humanitarian perspective. Things could be much worst.
@@Asianometry It's really sad. The Japanese were just 50km away. The other alternative would have been the capture of the government and forced surrender of China to Japan, which would have been disastrous for all the Allies.
And where were the communists who claimed that they ‘led’ the war effort?
This was a complete utter disaster, that went down in the history books as the largest man-made disaster in history. They deliberately destroyed their own people and towns in a desperate attempt to slow down the Japanese advance, but the Japanese just ended up going around the flood lol. There was hardly any disruption for the Japanese.
This deliberate destruction of environment would result in 900,000 Chinese deaths, the destruction of millions of buildings, and ultimately displace 12,000,000+ Chinese from their homes. None of this stopped the Japanese, it was only until the Japanese surrendered to the US is that the Chinese were saved. Without the US, China would cease to exist as we know it.
Furthermore, after the war, it is ironic that the Chinese claim that the Japanese did all these massacres, yet it is the Chinese who end up killing the most Chinese. Mao Zedong alone was responsible for the death of 50,000,000 Chinese, far more than what the Japanese army could ever do.
Flooding the yellow river and killing hundreds of thousands is a time honored tradition, like in 1642.
They should've called me instead
Not to mention the disastrous Changsha Arson that was completely unnecessary only hurt themselves.
Think reeking havoc when pronouncing wreaking havoc.
If you are near Chicago, that is.
*Good job Chiang Kai-Shreck*
This video needs the whole world to see from now even more coz the Ukraine dam destroyed, very similar to this case in China during WWII!
😮❤🥰🥰 a heavens sign? 🎉🎉
что то мне это напоминает
Japanese were trying to save Chinese people from drowning and starving while KMT attacking Japan, and announced Japan did a flood.
My bruh what kind of Tojoboo BS source did you use? My please touch some grass...
This sounds like a lie, but it's true.
@@leogazebo5290 you're a weeb and only listen to All-lies sources.
The evidence of Japanese humanitarian aid to Chinese civilians absolutely mogs that of the counter claim.
@@user-pn3im5sm7k Why are you calling him a weeb as an insult, aren't you the resident Japanese Nationalist here?
@@123four... Clearly you don't know what that word means. I don't care for Japanese culture, I care for the truth.
Putin be like