History of China in a Nutshell

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  • @BlueJayYT
    @BlueJayYT  2 місяці тому +14

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  • @DuckFish4522
    @DuckFish4522 4 роки тому +6398

    I loved that totally normal day where nothing unusual happened!

    • @BlueJayYT
      @BlueJayYT  4 роки тому +933

      What a beautiful June day!

    • @haruhifujioka5952
      @haruhifujioka5952 4 роки тому +121

      What about the tan-BOOM!

    • @Jacob87439
      @Jacob87439 3 роки тому +99

      Yeah when like nothing happened that was sick

    • @lynth
      @lynth 3 роки тому +12

      ​@@BlueJayYT Hi, do you unironically believe anyone in China claims that "nothing unusual happened" or that it's somehow a taboo subject? Please actually put effort into researching China, then. In general, your ideas about China seem to be based on literal anti-communist propaganda from the West and not, you know, actual facts and knowledge as established by historians and other academics. If you get your ideas about China from American/capitalist sources, you might not get very far. Although, hey, I'm sure you get your ideas about other countries' history from their enemies known to lie about them, too. After all, no better way to study Jewish history than by listening to Third Reich scholars!

    • @ghilliemcwilly2162
      @ghilliemcwilly2162 3 роки тому +194

      @@lynth found the CCP Assassin that's guarding BlueJay's wall with a 50 cal

  • @jzzisk
    @jzzisk 2 роки тому +6428

    Not so fun fact, China wiped out most of their sparrows during the great famine, believing that Sparrows were destroying farmers crops. In reality the sparrows were eating all pests who were destroying those same crops. The almost total extinction of the sparrows lead to a rise in pests and a lack of crops being grown causing the famine to grow larger.

    • @hailarwotanaz5848
      @hailarwotanaz5848 2 роки тому +446

      Then they made sure to export their food during a famine

    • @jonathanallard2128
      @jonathanallard2128 2 роки тому +137

      Makes 100% sense perfectly.

    • @michaelf.2449
      @michaelf.2449 2 роки тому +322

      Sounds like normal CCP policies just like how that one child policy has caused amazing conditions for the population

    • @ThillerKillerX
      @ThillerKillerX 2 роки тому

      Commies always starve at some point

    • @ignacio4159
      @ignacio4159 2 роки тому

      @@hailarwotanaz5848 yeah the URSS did the same. Millions of their people died of hunger but they exported what little food they had to the rest of the world to promote communism making people outside believe the urss was a paradise

  • @brennanvilcheck9469
    @brennanvilcheck9469 3 роки тому +2475

    The fact that a blue Jay made this video and narrated it, after knowing China went to war with birds and lost, makes this video ten times funnier.

    • @hoyabembe8858
      @hoyabembe8858 2 роки тому +14

      Elaborate

    • @brennanvilcheck9469
      @brennanvilcheck9469 2 роки тому +142

      @@hoyabembe8858 China was facing a issue with birds eating crops. They decided to launch a massive campaign against birds to exterminate them. They did so, but then the insects got out of control, leading to greater crop damage/famine. So, while they killed a large amount of birds, the birds really won the war

    • @matthewexline6589
      @matthewexline6589 2 роки тому +19

      @@brennanvilcheck9469 Bro that's like saying Terrans destroy Protoss, but then Zerg destroy Terrans and win... but Protoss won???

    • @angelarch5352
      @angelarch5352 2 роки тому +69

      Both lost... the insects won.

    • @scheewheed8285
      @scheewheed8285 2 роки тому +12

      @@angelarch5352 Thats literally the Chinese Civil War with ROC duking it out with Japan and the CCP finishing the ROC when the Japanese were done

  • @JunkyardDigs
    @JunkyardDigs 3 роки тому +1171

    Dude I don't even want to know how long that beginning took to edit😂😂

    • @BlueJayYT
      @BlueJayYT  3 роки тому +365

      Believe it or not, this video probably took me the least amount of time out of all of them hahaha but they take a longgg time

    • @JR-vt7rb
      @JR-vt7rb 3 роки тому +33

      @@BlueJayYT thanks for the passion 😂😂 really helping me out with my existencial crisis 😀

    • @concept5631
      @concept5631 2 роки тому +8

      @@BlueJayYT How long did it take to make the intro if I may ask?

    • @theironighters226
      @theironighters226 Рік тому +2

      @@BlueJayYT 3:22 devel horns

    • @RainerTheGamer
      @RainerTheGamer 10 місяців тому +1

      @@BlueJayYT by the least amount of time you still mean you spent around 16 hours or more editing right

  • @bkr1895
    @bkr1895 2 роки тому +601

    Mao promising Chinese peasants they’ll never go hungry would be like me calling myself in high school “Mr. Sex All The Time” both are equally untrue.

    • @Stoicsaiyan
      @Stoicsaiyan 2 роки тому

      That’s a lie. I just know you pull hella bitches

    • @thetieguy4961
      @thetieguy4961 2 роки тому +5

      hey can i call you Mr. That probably didn't change much ?

    • @zhaocamille7177
      @zhaocamille7177 Рік тому

      how?

    • @张宇-p7t
      @张宇-p7t Рік тому

      My parents and grandparents were farmers who built houses and had savings. My younger sister is studying mechanical engineering at university, and I was funded by the Chinese government to complete my PhD in Europe. We live happily and full of hope. It's really ridiculous that you westerners don't understand us, but pretend to be gods and comment on us.

    • @guoxiutang7569
      @guoxiutang7569 Рік тому +4

      Actually most peasants still thanks him. Not for CCP they would be peasants without land. For the poor, CCP saved them by eliminating landlords. Landlords are not all shot. My grandpa helped to hide his lord because “he is a good guy”. But “great leap forward “ and “culture revolution “was devastating and did kill a lot of people( not that much. Look up statistics of population)

  • @Mr.McMuffin
    @Mr.McMuffin 4 роки тому +1900

    This channel is heavily underrated. It’s criminal

    • @MrBasketville
      @MrBasketville 3 роки тому +20

      Here one year later, still criminally underrated

    • @PaulRudd1941
      @PaulRudd1941 3 роки тому +1

      @carl hartford yup same.

    • @KentBuchla
      @KentBuchla 3 роки тому +1

      Nice double cliché, ya bag o’ hot air.

    • @curtiskretzer8898
      @curtiskretzer8898 3 роки тому +2

      Criminal,like🇨🇳

    • @lynth
      @lynth 3 роки тому

      Filled with sinophobic and anti-socialist disinformation like 99% of every other channel from a white, male content creator from a Western imperialist nation.

  • @yankee3875
    @yankee3875 3 роки тому +982

    “Who will be shown with a halo so I do t get wall banged by a CCP hit squad” you have no right to be this funny

  • @FriendlierFetus
    @FriendlierFetus 3 роки тому +3306

    Reading Chinese history be like: "Xi Jaizu peasant rebellion of 1134 resulted in 570 million deaths"

    • @shirleyxia9988
      @shirleyxia9988 3 роки тому +62

      You know the Chinese population during Qing was around 300 million right?

    • @FriendlierFetus
      @FriendlierFetus 3 роки тому +905

      @@shirleyxia9988 You know this is a joke and an exaggerating, right?

    • @sirapple589
      @sirapple589 3 роки тому +79

      carl hartford
      Just looked it up, it’s been 70 years since the last civil war.
      Question is, in today’s China is it possible to actually organize and fight against the CCP?

    • @explosivelimejuice6111
      @explosivelimejuice6111 3 роки тому +45

      @carl hartford Just because an economy’s gonna crash doesn’t mean a new warlord era would come from it.

    • @explosivelimejuice6111
      @explosivelimejuice6111 3 роки тому +13

      @carl hartford I can believe that there are people who want power. What I can’t believe though is China imploding when they’ve been quite stable. They have good business, they pioneer in a lot of technologies. While an economy may take a dive, that economy can always be brought back up. So no I can’t believe that the People’s Republic of China is gonna collapse in our time.

  • @JumpCutThis
    @JumpCutThis Рік тому +29

    I don’t care what anyone says, your OG stuff is as good as the new- sure the graphics may be a bit more polished but the humor is what keeps me coming back.
    This one and the Olympics ep are modern masterpieces.

  • @artugert
    @artugert Рік тому +229

    Ah man, I thought this was going to go through the entire 5,000 years of Chinese history, not just the last 112 years.

    • @birdyhans2452
      @birdyhans2452 Рік тому +29

      He did, just really fast

    • @RADICALFLOAT95
      @RADICALFLOAT95 8 місяців тому +7

      ​@@birdyhans2452I actually genuinely agree with you

  • @tank7275
    @tank7275 3 роки тому +953

    During the cultural revolution a friend of my mothers lived next to a monk who was vegetarian
    And when those students who burned books came, they force fed the monk meat
    Which was ironic as most people could only eat meat like once a week at that time

    • @tritium1998
      @tritium1998 2 роки тому +1

      Cool story, Nayirah. But the Chinese gained the most people during that time instead of obeying you losers.

    • @tank7275
      @tank7275 2 роки тому +13

      @@tritium1998 what the fuck are you talking about

    • @feister2869
      @feister2869 2 роки тому

      Holy fucking shit. How has the west integrated china’s fucking bullshit in their economy and lives?

    • @allentillmann8513
      @allentillmann8513 2 роки тому +8

      Somehow, i can't see the answers

    • @angelarch5352
      @angelarch5352 2 роки тому +189

      The next time the CCP red guard comes along, I will tell them my religion stops me from eating cheeseburgers-- "oh no, please don't force me to eat cheeseburgers!... nom nom nom" "I'm not allowed to eat fries either!..."

  • @nsahandler
    @nsahandler 3 роки тому +1059

    Sun Yat Sen's life story is actually fascinating because his contribution was literally touring the US getting money via book signings and fundraising efforts to buy large stores of weapons to send to China.
    It took three(?) attempts and he survived multiple assassinations and even his kidnapping and torture in a Qing Embassy by managing to get the maid to slip out a letter.

    • @leiladekwatro3147
      @leiladekwatro3147 3 роки тому +11

      Ten attempts or so im told.

    • @nenmaster5218
      @nenmaster5218 3 роки тому +6

      @@leiladekwatro3147 But with less Birds though.

    • @qaq8409
      @qaq8409 3 роки тому +55

      Sun Yat Sen only succeeded in overthrowing the Qing dynasty after ten attempts, which means he staged eleven revolutions. I’m from Hong Kong and people respect him very much here (at least every one I know respects him). We call him 國父 which directly translates to “father of (our) nation”. My dad also used to tell me how his brother used to draw on all historically famous people in the textbooks, but he would never lay hands on Sun Yat Sen.

    • @Glumbus1
      @Glumbus1 2 роки тому +8

      @@qaq8409 from what i know every chinese person likes Sun Yat Sen the only reason you wouldnt is if you are a monarchist but i doubt there are any monarchists in china

    • @SunYat-sen
      @SunYat-sen 2 роки тому +2

      Sun was the greatest Chinese revolutionary to ever live

  • @danielortman2534
    @danielortman2534 3 роки тому +3567

    How to win a civil war: have your enemy spend years waging a war against a technologically superior enemy while you hide in the mountains.

    • @filiperosa7496
      @filiperosa7496 2 роки тому +5

      Wtf, the communist literally are massacred to the mountains

    • @danielortman2534
      @danielortman2534 2 роки тому +455

      @@filiperosa7496 The communists barely fought the Japanese at all. Mao actually thanked them for weakening the nationalists because he couldn't have won the civil war otherwise.

    • @filiperosa7496
      @filiperosa7496 2 роки тому +2

      @@danielortman2534 yeah, but they not fought because the nationalist try to exterminate every communist supports, everyway, I don't support mao neither the nationalists in china, because I'm Brazilian, lol, but it is not only because of the Japanese that the communist won

    • @danielortman2534
      @danielortman2534 2 роки тому +125

      @@filiperosa7496 according to Mao, it wouldn’t have worked without them.

    • @chefboyardee2223
      @chefboyardee2223 2 роки тому +55

      @@danielortman2534 so we just gonna take mao at his word then? The same man who thought birds were gonna eat all their food?

  • @christophervanoster
    @christophervanoster Рік тому +157

    If I had a nickel for every country that waged a war on birds and lost, I’d have 2 nickels. Which isn’t weird except that it happened twice

    • @Ourelleetsy
      @Ourelleetsy Рік тому +13

      Which isnt a lot but its weird that it happened twice

    • @empereurnico6048
      @empereurnico6048 Рік тому +3

      What the fuck was the second

    • @guitarfan01
      @guitarfan01 Рік тому +19

      @@empereurnico6048 Australia. They lost to emus.

    • @TheRatattat
      @TheRatattat 11 місяців тому

      ​@@Ourelleetsy fr

    • @empereurnico6048
      @empereurnico6048 10 місяців тому +2

      @@guitarfan01 ohhhhhh I remember

  • @TumblinWeeds
    @TumblinWeeds 3 роки тому +461

    Wow, this is probably the most accurate representation of modern Chinese history I’ve heard an English speaker tell. I love that you captured a lot of the thoughts and feelings of the Chinese civilians over the decades. That’s one thing I often see western media get wrong.

    • @feister2869
      @feister2869 2 роки тому +9

      Can’t say shit when you’re getting payed millions

    • @vyros.3234
      @vyros.3234 2 роки тому +9

      I watched an NPR doc on China and its the same and more in depth than this video. So what exactly is western media getting wrong.

    • @edisonlima4647
      @edisonlima4647 2 роки тому +21

      @@vyros.3234 Usually, it portrays the average civilian as rolling with all gleefully.

    • @Maelstromme
      @Maelstromme 2 роки тому +16

      @@edisonlima4647 I think that’s also what the Chinese government wants to portray. You know, will of the people = will of the leadership.

    • @DragonbornOfTamriel
      @DragonbornOfTamriel 2 роки тому

      @@vyros.3234 I don’t know man how about Disney praising the guards who run the concentration camps? John cena apologizing to China in mandarin for saying Taiwan is it’s own country. Government officials in the US getting caught in honeypots from China, Chinese professors saying they’ve infiltrated America at every level, Hollywood bending over backwards for those sweet sweet xuan so they lie about China to Americans all the time in chinas portrayal? Dude the list is so long I doubt I have enough characters to example EVERYTHING

  • @malkomal9517
    @malkomal9517 3 роки тому +135

    bruh that part on 0:23 is literally how i make a thesis of chinese history, skip all the dynasty and go straight to qing

    • @francescoboselli6033
      @francescoboselli6033 3 роки тому +6

      That's how also we study Chinese history in Italian school. And also some XIV century China reference if you study "Il milione" of Marco Polo

    • @valentinmitterbauer4196
      @valentinmitterbauer4196 3 роки тому +4

      In austria the historical corriculum is: 25% pre- industrial europe shenanigans, 5% colonial atrocities of spain, britain and germany, 3% history of USA and Russia, 5% WW I and communist revolutions, 2% austro- fascism, 50% nazis, nazi atrocites, Hitler, resistance against the nazis and WW II, 5% post- war austria and 5% history of the european union.

    • @francescoboselli6033
      @francescoboselli6033 3 роки тому

      @@valentinmitterbauer4196 what about Imperial Japan and it's atrocities?

    • @valentinmitterbauer4196
      @valentinmitterbauer4196 3 роки тому +4

      @@francescoboselli6033 Mh, i think indo- pacific WWII is one double page in the official school books, (for comparison, the topic "Austrian resistance" also has a whole double page) everything what happened from Pearl Harbour up to the nukes, but it doesn't really convey that the japanese were as bad as the germans. I, personally, was shocked when i learned (outside of school) that the japanese feel no remorse towards china and korea. Germans and austrians have so much to learn about their own inhuman atrocities that there is hardly space for what others did. For example, the atrocities the russians did to east austria from '45 to '55 or the expulsion of the Sudeten people we learn from our grandparents rather than from school.

  • @tiki11111
    @tiki11111 4 роки тому +8257

    Only real men watch avatar

    • @robertraine6045
      @robertraine6045 3 роки тому +169

      even toph sees this to be true

    • @RockSmithStudio
      @RockSmithStudio 3 роки тому +61

      ATLA is awesome

    • @reisen1932
      @reisen1932 3 роки тому +29

      So, which part of China is the Fire nation?

    • @dianapennepacker6854
      @dianapennepacker6854 3 роки тому +7

      I remember being so sad when it ended. I'm Male using someone's phone.
      Then I saw the movie. 😥
      Only Attack on Titan has gained my attention, and I am 34.
      Yet enjoying Avatar with my nephew was fun times.⁰

    • @reisen1932
      @reisen1932 3 роки тому +10

      @@timlilijinsheng4070 Japan is not part of China though. Or do China already claim whole Asia already, did I overslept?

  • @CHINARIZING
    @CHINARIZING 4 роки тому +287

    Hey, I really liked this video! Nicely summarized and simplified with some really good humor. Awesome editing too.

    • @BlueJayYT
      @BlueJayYT  4 роки тому +47

      Thank you!

    • @owendiaram3870
      @owendiaram3870 2 роки тому +18

      Wow, all of china liked your video.
      That's got to be at least ten people, probably more

    • @rose_blue1
      @rose_blue1 9 місяців тому

      ​@@owendiaram3870 ?

  • @DG-mk2nr
    @DG-mk2nr Рік тому +7

    Ngl the dynasty histories that got skipped were lit af. Romance of the three kingdom period for example

  • @matthews.mahoney3743
    @matthews.mahoney3743 2 роки тому +115

    It's like Sam o'nella and oversimplified had a baby and we got Bluejay. Keep it up

    • @prw56
      @prw56 Рік тому +5

      I don't think there's any oversimplified in there, its just a different flavor of sam o'nella's style.

    • @wueevee3249
      @wueevee3249 Рік тому +4

      God,I love Sam o’nella and oversimplified

    • @RADICALFLOAT95
      @RADICALFLOAT95 8 місяців тому +1

      ​@@wueevee3249I actually genuinely agree with you

  • @bliss_sequence5918
    @bliss_sequence5918 4 роки тому +238

    I like these, will you do more?

    • @BlueJayYT
      @BlueJayYT  4 роки тому +55

      I liked doing it! I will, especially if this video does well! Got a suggestion for the next topic?

    • @thatonenoob4951
      @thatonenoob4951 4 роки тому +19

      @@BlueJayYT history of comunism

    • @BlueJayYT
      @BlueJayYT  4 роки тому +38

      @@thatonenoob4951 That's a good idea!

    • @Limboniolo
      @Limboniolo 4 роки тому +11

      History of post colonial shipping routes in modern Northern Africa

    • @capitalrumble6620
      @capitalrumble6620 4 роки тому +1

      @@BlueJayYT please

  • @HipHopRepair
    @HipHopRepair 3 роки тому +280

    Why is there no „that’s what Xi said“ joke????
    6/10 stars…

    • @sirius4k
      @sirius4k 3 роки тому +22

      There was. Pay attention or get your organs shared with the Free Democratic Dictatorshippy People of UA-cam!

    • @HipHopRepair
      @HipHopRepair 3 роки тому +7

      @@sirius4k ok my bad. I will still complain about it when they come to harvest my organs

    • @kagenekoUA
      @kagenekoUA 3 роки тому +6

      Somewhere around 9:20, just in case

  • @charlie15627
    @charlie15627 3 роки тому +563

    I’m surprised that you didn’t mention how the CCP spent virtually the entire WW2 avoiding combat. They just kept collecting weapons from the USSR and training their troops.
    That’s why they were able to basically walk right over the Chinese Nationalists as soon as WW2 was over. While the Nationalists were fight, they were watching, training and planning.

    • @stephenhawkingsbeautywheel9080
      @stephenhawkingsbeautywheel9080 3 роки тому +125

      aaannd after the fighting was over they told everybody them alone (the ccp) fought against the japanese.

    • @seanhartnett79
      @seanhartnett79 3 роки тому +42

      Pretty much and they allowed the country to get massacred by the Japanese

    • @温水-i5z
      @温水-i5z 3 роки тому +14

      To be honest, you can't say such a thing if you know anything about history.

    • @温水-i5z
      @温水-i5z 3 роки тому +23

      The content of this video is basically true, but selectively ignored too much

    • @zlcoolboy
      @zlcoolboy 3 роки тому +80

      @@温水-i5z You kinda have to ignore a lot to have a reasonably sized video when it comes to a country's history (especially one as long as china's history).

  • @Altolion
    @Altolion 2 роки тому +13

    I’m so perplexed you haven’t reached a million subs yet, you content is superb in every single way, keep it up ! I’ll never stop watching :)

  • @blackcat_wing4115
    @blackcat_wing4115 2 роки тому +95

    I'm Chinese.
    Looking back to our history,our nation really have been through so much. I believe this is how the nation develope. There were always good leaders starting new eras for the nation. And suckers destroying everything just for their good. Histories taught us a lot and guide us to build our country. Hope for a better future for China and the whole world!

    • @starkiller0219
      @starkiller0219 2 роки тому +37

      Exactly dog, don’t let our governments trick you or me into hating eachother. We are all humans and all have been through shit

    • @blackcat_wing4115
      @blackcat_wing4115 2 роки тому +15

      @@starkiller0219 ❤Peace and Harmony!!!❤

    • @tesmith47
      @tesmith47 2 роки тому

      Yeah, China be careful not to act like western capitalist, rape other continents thinking YOUR RACE is better

    • @blackcat_wing4115
      @blackcat_wing4115 2 роки тому +1

      @Mysterious one 啊对对对对

    • @周期
      @周期 2 роки тому +1

      @@starkiller0219 good man great country Return the cultural relics looted from various countries in your museum

  • @edwardfletcher7790
    @edwardfletcher7790 3 роки тому +287

    Nicely done...
    "Hey, let's execute all those pesky Doctors, Teachers, Scientists and Engineers !
    Basically anyone who wears glasses. "
    You forgot to mention the war against sparrows...

    • @panzerjaeger016
      @panzerjaeger016 2 роки тому +28

      Perfect opportunity for the Blue Jay to take his part in fighting his ancestral war!

    • @sahkogile
      @sahkogile 2 роки тому +13

      Thats Pol Pot

    • @edwardfletcher7790
      @edwardfletcher7790 2 роки тому +5

      @@sahkogile Who do you think Pol pot got the idea from ? World History is all online, study it.

    • @sahkogile
      @sahkogile 2 роки тому +1

      @@edwardfletcher7790 so?

    • @highseervehk
      @highseervehk 2 роки тому

      @@edwardfletcher7790 this didn't even actually happen, the amount of propaganda that western buffoons believe on any (ex-)marxist country is insane

  • @IfIgetsubsIllGobacktomyfamily
    @IfIgetsubsIllGobacktomyfamily 4 роки тому +69

    Great video. If you do stuff like this more often you could be a big history channel

  • @jaewok5G
    @jaewok5G 3 роки тому +32

    as a blue jay, I'm stunned you didn't mention your avian brothers, the sparrows

    • @MK_ULTRA420
      @MK_ULTRA420 3 роки тому +10

      Corvidae and Passeridae don't get along...

    • @jaewok5G
      @jaewok5G 3 роки тому +4

      @@MK_ULTRA420 I'm just glad that maybe someone got the reference!

    • @MK_ULTRA420
      @MK_ULTRA420 3 роки тому +6

      @@jaewok5G I know about the sparrow purge but as my own personal headcanon I like to think Blue Jay is lowkey okay with it.

    • @jaewok5G
      @jaewok5G 3 роки тому +3

      @@MK_ULTRA420 they can be jerks

  • @connormcmurphy4276
    @connormcmurphy4276 Рік тому +12

    2:50-2:59 is just so well voice acted. The “phewww” followed by the confused “yeaaahhh-wait what?”
    Perfection.

  • @sirv8708
    @sirv8708 2 роки тому +95

    During the cultural revolution, my grandparents who were both university researchers were sent with all their directly related family members to a production camp. At lunch time, they had to bow on a high stage, along other academic researchers, to a room of factory workers (people who never received education) while those people eat first. The people bowing on stage could only go eat after the workers finished. My mom who was a young child at the time, would have to witness that everyday for years while she waited for her parents to come down the stairs to eat.
    I can’t post this story on any Chinese platforms as it would get taken down right away. It’s just sad how they try to bury the disgusting things they’ve done and forcefully shuts anyone trying to speak about it.

    • @chatter4427
      @chatter4427 2 роки тому +8

      Imagine having to eat after the workers smh soo traumatizing

    • @sirv8708
      @sirv8708 2 роки тому +30

      @@chatter4427 I think you missed the part where they had to bow to them the entire time they ate. Like, a 90° bow, on a high stage, being watched by a room full of people, days after days for ages.

    • @chatter4427
      @chatter4427 2 роки тому +2

      @@sirv8708 they got abs from those years?

    • @sirv8708
      @sirv8708 2 роки тому +18

      @@chatter4427 are you okay?

    • @chatter4427
      @chatter4427 2 роки тому +2

      @@sirv8708 just saying, 90 degree for hours everyday must be some intense ab workout

  • @thesoliloquist1940
    @thesoliloquist1940 3 роки тому +5

    I like the waiting room music at the end.. all channels sort of do something with their audience and i like by the end of the video its like we're all in a waiting room as if your videos were playing in the background from a corner somewhere and we were all passively listening to it..

  • @outofsync6269
    @outofsync6269 3 роки тому +81

    I am loving these videos. No idea how UA-cam recommended them and surprised they haven't taken this one in particular down for criticizing CCP but glad that I came across them. Keep them coming.

    • @mnm1273
      @mnm1273 3 роки тому +12

      Ah yes UA-cam famously close to the CCP.

    • @mnm1273
      @mnm1273 3 роки тому +1

      With not to

    • @tritium1998
      @tritium1998 2 роки тому +1

      UA-cam recommends you losers more though, but you're crying because you don't own everyone despite it.

    • @nighthawk244
      @nighthawk244 2 роки тому

      @@mnm1273 yes UA-cam routinely censors anti CCP channels

    • @angsern8455
      @angsern8455 Рік тому

      UA-cam is not really happy about the CPC

  • @Thorn_krieg
    @Thorn_krieg 4 роки тому +65

    I know for a fact you only laughed in that chaotic moment to make it more chaotic

    • @BlueJayYT
      @BlueJayYT  4 роки тому +28

      Actually not quite! While there are some easter eggs in that mesh of audio clips that I’ll let you all decipher, the majority of it were audio clips of me reading interesting tid bits of ancient Chinese history. For the laughing moment, that came after I talked about the story of two peaches and three warriors from the province of Qi. Me saying “the killing of three warriors with two peaches” sounded so ridiculous that I laughed

  • @AlinJ.
    @AlinJ. Рік тому +3

    I have replayed 6:08 an unhealthy amount of times. BlueJay is a mad genius.

  • @Cartoonicus
    @Cartoonicus 2 роки тому +20

    Man, this guy doesn’t hold back. I wonder how long this will stay up on UA-cam.

  • @b_3nji876
    @b_3nji876 3 роки тому +17

    4:19 the biggest troll moment in human history

  • @jblico
    @jblico 3 роки тому +179

    chinese history in a nutshell : estimated 10-90 million dead

    • @stephenhawkingsbeautywheel9080
      @stephenhawkingsbeautywheel9080 3 роки тому +14

      and not being blamed for it pretty much coz communism= gud

    • @cheshirecynic4524
      @cheshirecynic4524 3 роки тому +9

      @@stephenhawkingsbeautywheel9080 Communism is good, on its own. It's that Authoritarian part that people try to add which ruins everything for everybody. The reason that communism and socialism have repeatedly failed miserably throughout history is that every time they've been implemented, it's been done under the premise of getting the populace to accept a dictatorship. Remove the position of power at the top (no singular "leader" or insular group acting as a combined dictator), and the concepts of equity and equality come into much better focus.

    • @POTUSJimmyCarter
      @POTUSJimmyCarter 2 роки тому +4

      I feel like being part of Chinese history is one of the leading causes of death throughout history

    • @yaboichangkaishek3460
      @yaboichangkaishek3460 2 роки тому +3

      Then China be like “ just a Casual Friday”

    • @tritium1998
      @tritium1998 2 роки тому +1

      It was successful enough to gain more people and last longer (other ancient nations died completely).

  • @atsekaleb7
    @atsekaleb7 4 роки тому +43

    Were you inspired by Sam O'Nella in the editing and narration style?

    • @BlueJayYT
      @BlueJayYT  4 роки тому +45

      I love his videos! Yes, he is an inspiration, but I have made videos in this style on a different channel 4 years ago before I ever heard of Sam O'Nella!

    • @LegoGamer-g7f
      @LegoGamer-g7f 3 роки тому +5

      @@BlueJayYT I feel as if you are better than him since I can’t find any bias in your videos.

    • @abloodcorpse3318
      @abloodcorpse3318 3 роки тому +1

      @@BlueJayYT it's nice to see

    • @KenikoB
      @KenikoB 9 місяців тому

      @@LegoGamer-g7f Having or not having bias does not make one youtuber better than another. Everything contains some amount of bias, and often that's a good thing - if you're trying to be neutral you can end up downplaying and legitimizing awful people and situations.

    • @RADICALFLOAT95
      @RADICALFLOAT95 8 місяців тому +2

      ​@@KenikoBI actually genuinely agree with you

  • @auulauul9328
    @auulauul9328 2 роки тому +28

    "Xi Jinping probably smells like a capri sun" is a take I was not prepared for but agree with now.

  • @suthiraksb
    @suthiraksb 2 роки тому +11

    You forgot the best part of the great leap forward. Mao ordered to hunted all pigeons because he though they eat farmers' rice. But the fact is pigeons don't eat only rice, they eat other insect like locust too. The loss of rice from pigeons is too small compare to other problem like locust, but Mao was soldier not scientist or farmer. Then, people started hunting pigeons untill they're almost extinct. After there weren't hunter, "it's free real estate"locust. Combine to stupid order that force farmers made forges and melt their tool to make low quality ingot. The famine spreaded. To solve this happen, they had to import pigeons to fight locust. And many low quality factories cause air polution problems till today(Some factories still operate since Mao reign, CCP tried to change those old power plants but it's too hard).

    • @chamorvenigo
      @chamorvenigo Рік тому

      You also forgot the part where the "famine" (food-shortage) happened during three years of the PRC 2nd five-year economic plan. The first five-year economic plan was so successful at increasing food production, PRC was overconfident in the second one. However, since then, there was no major screw-up like that. They learn to build really impressive infrastructures to deal with floods and droughts.
      Not to mention there was a worldwide trade embargo on PRC, so that means restricted access to loans, food import, fertilizers, and farming equipment since the Korean War. That trade embargo lasted until 1972 after Nixon visited China.

  • @callsignpanzer7209
    @callsignpanzer7209 4 роки тому +14

    This is like history over simplified but he actually posts and I love it

  • @c.o.y9418
    @c.o.y9418 3 роки тому +13

    Daddy Mao really is a true gamer, even tho he got a nuke 3.900.000 times, he more prefer gunfight

  • @Nicentoastytoast
    @Nicentoastytoast 3 роки тому +138

    Hey, love your channel. Question: If I were to slow this video down and isolate each of the words detailing the older history of china, would it actually tell isolated stories, or just be complete nonsense? Thanks.

    • @BlueJayYT
      @BlueJayYT  3 роки тому +131

      It's a mix! I recorded dozens of sentences, most of which was actually historical, some of which was silly easter egg type stuff.

    • @rexx2338
      @rexx2338 Рік тому +2

      @Fishy Business I guess you’ll never know :)

    • @heterodontosaurustucki
      @heterodontosaurustucki Рік тому

      @@rexx2338har har har

    • @rexx2338
      @rexx2338 Рік тому

      @@heterodontosaurustucki no

  • @餅-f3l
    @餅-f3l Рік тому +8

    Very nice Falun properganda 10/10.

  • @ryanjackson5463
    @ryanjackson5463 2 роки тому +8

    "Probably smells like a Capri Sun..."
    You just earned a sub!

    • @007kingifrit
      @007kingifrit 2 роки тому

      and he lost me as a sub for the same line. I'm a Hi C man myself.

  • @skyfallin9387
    @skyfallin9387 2 роки тому +5

    Great video man! This is the type of history video I like to see. It reports facts as it is and put your own style of humour in the video to make it interesting. I just wish that there is more diverse topic than bashing the CPC.
    In a weird way, it’s really fun to read the comments. Seeing a few distinct group of people just talking out their opinion.

  • @benselchow7549
    @benselchow7549 Рік тому +4

    Blue Jays videos make me miss Sam O Nella

  • @knurlgnar24
    @knurlgnar24 3 роки тому +22

    According to wikipedia the 'great leap forward' was a resounding success despite the lack of participation by those who starved to death. Ah, wikipedia. RIP.

    • @stevenschnepp576
      @stevenschnepp576 7 місяців тому

      The left has truly lost the plot.

    • @yourdad6902
      @yourdad6902 Місяць тому

      That is just an outright lie they literally tell you it was a disaster so why are you lying

    • @yourdad6902
      @yourdad6902 Місяць тому

      ​@@stevenschnepp576 you can go on Wikipedia and prove yourself wrong

  • @mrbushi1062
    @mrbushi1062 2 роки тому +3

    Last air bender is so much more then a kids show

  • @BusinessTravelVlogs
    @BusinessTravelVlogs Рік тому +6

    Fun fact: Chiang Kai shek took (stole some may say) most of china's treasure (art, jewels etc) with him to Taiwan where you can look at it in a museum. Very worth a visit

    • @litiumminer2850
      @litiumminer2850 Рік тому +13

      I mean considering what the red guard student groups did I think it was for the best

    • @Jikuri
      @Jikuri Рік тому +2

      Most likely "save" those bastards will burn those 🤣 because it was tied to old China

    • @埊
      @埊 Рік тому +2

      if he did to oppose the red guards who destroy lishi and tradition, then thankfull.

  • @studywithyan697
    @studywithyan697 2 роки тому +59

    I like your video, agrees with almost everything, there is just one thing I really want to point out, Falungong isn't just a harmless yoga group. I know that's how they have presented them selves outside of China, but they are a cult, a cult fitting all of major sterotypes about Cults. They believe that their leader is the creater of the universe or something like that and won't allow their members to go to hospital for medical issues. they sell high priced 'medicine' to members that is sick and the leader manipulates young female members into having sex with him.
    I agree that the Chinese government is awful, but not allowing Falungong to roam free in China is one of the frew things I agree with.
    How do I know all this? because my Grandma is a long time follower of Falungong and I was taught about Falungong from her at a young age, I forgot all of the quotes from the Holy book but what I said above is coming from what I remember.

    • @wes00chin
      @wes00chin 2 роки тому +10

      Yeah as soon as i saw that part i kinda felt that this video sort of looses it credibility.

    • @edisonlima4647
      @edisonlima4647 2 роки тому +10

      So they are basically a mix between Jehovah Witnesses and old school Mormons. Got it.

    • @studywithyan697
      @studywithyan697 2 роки тому +1

      @@edisonlima4647 yes but more similar to Jehovah witness than to Mormons.

    • @rs-dp6pr
      @rs-dp6pr Рік тому

      They area cult.. yeah no kidding..

    • @gryphonbotha1880
      @gryphonbotha1880 Рік тому

      This comment section is confusing.
      The Jehovah's Witnesses I know are much more likely to go to hospital when ill than a few more mainstream churches I know.
      They also take the sanctity of marriage and the nature of intimacy very seriously. If a leader tried to manipulate a girl into sex, there'd be an outcry among the whole congregation, and the leader would almost certainly be disfellowshipped. Certainly, he wouldn't be allowed to lead anymore.
      The police may even be called in.
      I'm not a JW myself, but comparing them to an actual, human-centered cult isn't accurate.

  • @christophervanoster
    @christophervanoster Рік тому +3

    “I’m showing mao with a halo so as not to be quickscoped by the ccp”
    Not even 2 minutes later “famines of China”

  • @bluedshadow27
    @bluedshadow27 4 роки тому +21

    BlueJay: *yeah this is big brain time*

    • @danieldeering860
      @danieldeering860 4 роки тому +1

      I have your pfp on like 200 posters covering my whole room

  • @montgolifers
    @montgolifers 4 місяці тому +1

    Need an update video about how its living in china, temu and tiktok and how the corona situation was. There is alot of more crazy stuff in china you could talk about :) love your videos!

    • @TrayVestTea
      @TrayVestTea 3 місяці тому

      Ya scary stuff

    • @willl237
      @willl237 28 днів тому

      @@TrayVestTea whats scary

    • @TrayVestTea
      @TrayVestTea 27 днів тому

      @@willl237 Oh, the coronavirus stuff, how like the local government in shanghai started forcing themselves into homes and killing people’s pets because for a while it was believed that pets could spread coronavirus to humans, they can’t, we know that now.
      And how the local government there also managed the crisis terribly and food shortages caused many people to starve in their own homes as they weren’t being delegated properly and people weren’t allowed to leave

  • @clxqc2912
    @clxqc2912 Рік тому +1

    Recently took APWH this video is actually very helpful and educational honestly would be a good watch before taking the exam

  • @reisen1932
    @reisen1932 3 роки тому +6

    The Soviet Stickman squatting... History has never been so accurate!

  • @sapereaude6274
    @sapereaude6274 2 роки тому +3

    Thought that bird was a Swallow educating Mao at first.

  • @jessicalypso8839
    @jessicalypso8839 2 роки тому +9

    5:29 scared the shit outta me!

  • @garyg3468
    @garyg3468 2 роки тому +1

    just binged the whole channel, these vids are dripping with dark humor and I love it! thanks for the laughs!

  • @DontCallMeEdith
    @DontCallMeEdith 4 роки тому +6

    Okay, this is pretty cool and informative. Keep it up dude

  • @epicfail9271
    @epicfail9271 2 роки тому +5

    "Yeah I'm watching a kids show"
    Mr bird, you mispronounced *great* show

  • @Collipso
    @Collipso 4 роки тому +5

    great video, you deserve way more

  • @KenikoB
    @KenikoB 9 місяців тому +2

    the stuff around 5:30 is incorrect I'm pretty sure... the plan was to make farming produce enough that some farmers could be sent to work on industrialization instead. Mau was lied to by officials in the first years of the plan, who told him they had lots of crops because they wanted to look good, so he diverted even more farmers to industrialization because by the information he was going off of they had plenty of extra food. And the backyard furnaces weren't part of the plan - the people just started doing that on their own and melting down their steel tools because they supported the movement so much, even though the steel it produced was crap that was unusable and they were told to stop.

  • @gregj4857
    @gregj4857 7 місяців тому +1

    3 years ago and still relevant. Nice job

  • @saucebloks5243
    @saucebloks5243 3 роки тому +5

    Man i don't how this channel hasn't blown up, made me laugh more than some of these new "comedy" movies, love the channel

  • @theleanmonster3735
    @theleanmonster3735 3 роки тому +35

    “Survived throughout history” even through it died like 15 times

    • @tritium1998
      @tritium1998 2 роки тому +3

      Implying your regimes didn't die despite your shorter histories. The Roman Empire is propagandized as a continuous regime despite its different dynasties, and it died completely.

    • @neshirst-ashuach1881
      @neshirst-ashuach1881 2 роки тому +2

      No, claiming China has a continous history is really more like modern Italians claiming they have a continous regime from Rome. Its just nonsense.

    • @michyoung77
      @michyoung77 2 роки тому +4

      The dynasties did collapse, however, the culture, its political formation, and its cultural identity never really did; at least not in the way Egypt, Rome, Babylon, or any other civilization for that matter has.

    • @GIN.356.A
      @GIN.356.A 2 роки тому

      If it comes back, did it really die?

  • @marvelgeek9577
    @marvelgeek9577 2 роки тому +7

    3:08 Is that a Looney Toons reference?

  • @catsnekos5002
    @catsnekos5002 2 роки тому

    Watch that channel grow exponentially

  • @thevillager8339
    @thevillager8339 2 роки тому +2

    I was wondering why the video was so short, but then I saw the first bit and was like oooooh

  • @kinman3051
    @kinman3051 Рік тому +5

    0:32 I could make out "basically like an alchohol"

  • @noahs07208
    @noahs07208 2 роки тому +7

    2:35 most definitely

  • @Minboelf
    @Minboelf 2 роки тому +5

    7:28
    Singapore: Don't spread communism
    China: Ok

  • @dylansmith6911
    @dylansmith6911 Рік тому

    2 years later and youre finally getting a blow up, you deserve millions more subs.

  • @indjijatsararmy
    @indjijatsararmy Рік тому

    3:43 For anyone wondering, what's the music in the background. It's Imperial Russian Preobrazhensky Regiment March.

  • @m4_patriot374
    @m4_patriot374 2 роки тому +4

    Breaking news, Bluejay shot 14 times in the back off the head with a suicide note written in Simplified Chinese

  • @cbygelightbulb
    @cbygelightbulb 3 роки тому +6

    9:08 "...smells like a caprisun." Come man, we all know he smells like honey

  • @allesklar8636
    @allesklar8636 3 роки тому +46

    4:10
    Valid point.
    Some might say that the communists were able to make a comeback since the nationalist troops, who were pretty much the only Chinese forces (the commies laid back) to fight the Japanese. So in the end, casualties and overall fatigue allowed the communists to easily get ahold of the country.
    The end.

    • @hooderik8699
      @hooderik8699 2 роки тому +9

      This is a logical but misleading concept ppl believe but the communist still had a huge disadvantage against nationalist troops in 1945, however the nationalist government acting like the dickheads they are had a very large forced convict army with no moral that could win against the communists, the KMT's lack of trust and internal fighting is what devastated them.
      During 1931 to 1945 the nationalist held large campaigns are they should being the ruling party of china and controlled most resources. The communist had very active roles behind enemy lines in western and northern china. The communist were great at their guerrilla tactics and were able to secure all country side except for the Japanese captured railway junctions and cities. in 1943 the communist launched a major counter offensive in enemy captured land. Simply put the communist were a smaller very unified group of mental elites that lacked physical equipment but managed to improve themselves through their tactics. The KMT was a huge hot mess with no self trust and care within their armies, the only output they had in terms of fighting was the few well trained troops with the determine nation to fight the japs.

    • @94ruben94
      @94ruben94 2 роки тому

      Z zxz

    • @hooderik8699
      @hooderik8699 2 роки тому +4

      @@doppelkupplungsgetriebe try not to bring so much politics into a historical fact

    • @stg-tf4ns
      @stg-tf4ns 2 роки тому +4

      @@hooderik8699 the KMT caused like 3 hyperinflations in its not so long reign alongside other corruption and stuff, plus committing mass violation of human rights itself breakinging the alliance with the communist (which btw many of the OG kmt members dislike because having the communists alongside was a principle laid down by Sun himself), so it's makes perfect sense that the people viewed the communist party as a simply better alternative at the time

    • @Zones33
      @Zones33 Рік тому

      The success of pushing a UN led coalition away from their border to the 38th parallel in the Korean War negate that point

  • @JacobTemplar
    @JacobTemplar 2 роки тому +1

    Blue jay is the most hilarious history channel. Love that I found this channel

  • @IQXLYI
    @IQXLYI 2 роки тому +1

    Just found you channel and it’s filled what Sam took away

  • @Wombo55
    @Wombo55 3 роки тому +4

    Thank you Mordecai from the regular show for teaching us about china.

  • @synthchigginnz
    @synthchigginnz 2 роки тому +3

    Hey Blue Jay!!! I love your editing and comedic take on historical events
    Keep it up!!!

  • @okyanus1226
    @okyanus1226 4 роки тому +5

    I am disappointed that Deng Xiaoping wasn't called DANK

  • @finghinmccarthy5021
    @finghinmccarthy5021 3 роки тому +1

    i dont know much about editing and animation but i have a feeling that initial bit was the longest part of the video to make

    • @BlueJayYT
      @BlueJayYT  3 роки тому +4

      Actually, funnily enough, that part was probably the quickest haha the stuff that takes the longest are things like background drawings. But transformation animations of images like in the beginning are pretty quick!

  • @totallyrealnotfakelifeadvi7547
    @totallyrealnotfakelifeadvi7547 2 роки тому

    Love this! And thanks, I am cute. Your pronunciation is funny but very lovable. Nice video (: make more

  • @theshadows1416
    @theshadows1416 2 роки тому +5

    0:44 can we all question *why are the gaming videos none existant?*

  • @mapoleo
    @mapoleo 2 роки тому +6

    8:17 i like how that ta- i mean the special parade vehicle just materialized out of no where

  • @PureFPSPwnage
    @PureFPSPwnage 3 роки тому +34

    Just discovered your channel. I'm happier than Mao causing a famine.

  • @Worldsportstalk24
    @Worldsportstalk24 2 роки тому +1

    As soon as the guy voting turned with a surprised face to the left, I got an ad with girls twerking. It was perfect.

  • @katiemooree
    @katiemooree Рік тому +1

    used this for college, thank you!

  • @leolarson18
    @leolarson18 2 роки тому +6

    Can we all just appreciate how much time it must have taken to write the script for that intro like it probably could have been a half hour video on its own

  • @2cozy.
    @2cozy. 2 роки тому +3

    Lol at 4:43 there was an ad for a robot shooty game and all I heard was miniguns

  • @briandozier9113
    @briandozier9113 2 роки тому +3

    I'ma still be rewatching ATLA even when I'm in my 70's guaranteed

  • @RennanDeMatos
    @RennanDeMatos 5 місяців тому +2

    I must say, this blue bird knows NOTHING about Mao Tsung

  • @joycehammond7062
    @joycehammond7062 12 днів тому

    I tried to slow down the bit where you cover ancient China, my god that was discombobulating!

  • @icreatedanaccountforthis1852
    @icreatedanaccountforthis1852 3 роки тому +22

    "The vast Pacific Ocean has ample space for China and the United States."
    - that's what Xi said

    • @seanhartnett79
      @seanhartnett79 3 роки тому +4

      Not really. constantly angering your neighbors, is a great way to collapse

    • @tritium1998
      @tritium1998 2 роки тому +1

      @@seanhartnett79 You anger more than just your neighbors, but it's not like you imps own all your neighbors and overseas obeying you like you wish anyway.

    • @seanhartnett79
      @seanhartnett79 2 роки тому +1

      @@tritium1998 China has managed to piss off literally everyone, the west isn’t happy.

  • @Cherno35
    @Cherno35 2 роки тому +8

    Its cool to see someone who uses Sam O’Nellas style without straight up copying him.

  • @jtr7377
    @jtr7377 2 роки тому +11

    Just want to point out real quick that Sun Yat-sen did not have very different, opposing views to the Socialists/Communists, especially since he and Vladimir Lenin got along well. It is one reason why he still has what is essentially a "founding father" status in both China and Taiwan, he was essentially the main guy that held together the party coalition.
    Kind of like Tito and Yugoslavia.

  • @abuhammad
    @abuhammad 2 роки тому

    I love your video, man. Really.

  • @521techguy
    @521techguy 3 роки тому +1

    Watched all your videos in reverse order from release, lol. MOAR VIDEOS PLZ