He didn't try to be Mao.. he just packed up and ran like the 14th Dali Lama.... a bitch.... Try this on me here in our nation... DISGUSTING BEHAVIOR... MAKES ME SICK
These are the people the world should be listening to, they've been through hardships, war and pain. They know best that it's never worth repeating it again. I hope this man has and continues to have a life
Very emotional but ever so important story. I love hearing stories where two soldiers from separate armies help each other. The human desire of love and care for one another can overcome many obstacles, but governments and egos get in the way. I hope this man finds peace with his mother dying before he returned and realizes that she did wait for him as long as her natural life allowed her to. I’m sure she waited each and every day, hoping she would meet him again.
MORE! Seriously this is something that is never spoken of in the West! I knew about the civil war and Kuomintang retreating to Taiwan but never heard stories about the struggle of normal people! I wish there was some good documentaries or articles, books or podcasts about it!
Such a great moving piece. Reminded me a lot of my dad. My dad had a similar story. After becoming a us citizen at the end of the chinese exclusion act, he went back to China in 1982 to see his family but to only find out they all starved to death during Mao's great leap forward program.
@@jasondpa lol, just like there was no Holocaust in Germany or the Holodomor in Ukraine. Don't be stupid, there a TON of stories from Chinese people and reports of all the death that happened caused by Mao. The worst modern-day genocide was caused by Stalin and Mao, who were very close. Of course, murderers get along well with other murderers.
Whats even more sad was that the first 5 year plan was actually successful, but not successful enough for mao, so he started the great leap forward which was disastrous
Something to clear up first is that the Chinese Civil War was reigning BEFORE the start of world war 2, but the civil war was put on a ceasefire so China could temporarily unite against Japan, then after Japan was no longer a threat, the civil war resumed.
His story moved me deeply and reminded me of the story of how my great grandmother was hit and killed by a bomb whilst foraging for food up in the mountains for my grandmother in China. My grandfather (paternal side) also defected from the army whilst traveling to Taiwan and escaped to Malaysia. So much suffering and hardship everywhere…May all our ancestors rest in peace. ❤
My grandfather passed away in Malaysia after being kicked out of Vietnam in 78. Our family’s been through worse then most Americans that look down on Asians. All Asian were taught as a kid. Do better then other people. Everyone looks down on a Asian. Till this day. There still that going on
Still walking and standing strong and was able to bring back the ashes of the fallen to China where they may also have mothers and fathers they haven't seen since.
His mom , maybe unintentionaly had help his son survived the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution . Sadly they cant have a proper farewell in the end :(
My maternal grandparents family was a KMT supporting family: both grandparents were persecuted during the cultural revolution. The communists were mostly gracious compared to previous decades of warlordism after winning the mainland. My maternal grandmother's uncle was a pilot (transport) for the nationalist airforce. So, everyone on her side was suppose to go to Taiwan. Her grandmother refused because she was determined to be buried in her hometown where she spent her entire life. Because of this, she stayed behind (the only one in her family besides her grandmother). If Chiang showed more grace at the end of WWII and worked to revive China as a great power, his legacy would have been entirely different. If there was no KMT, China would have still been more divided like the warlordism era at the onset of Japanese invasion and his recovery of Xinjiang at the end of WWII prevented fragmentation of China. His obsession with destroying the communist delayed China emergence as a great power by decades. Instead, China became first a proxy of the Soviet Union through the Korean war and later American proxy through containment. One can only hope Xi doesn't make the same mistake. From Chiang's point of view, he unified China (however imperfect) and defeated the Japanese ending China's humiliation while Mao had no comparable achievements (owning a few provinces and no major cities or industrialized region). It seems impossible for the KMT to lose at 1945 as China emerged for the first time in a century as a "policeman" while the rest of world were all colonies or under occupation. Yet, they did lose. Xi obviously cannot let Taiwan go, but he can do a lot more. Courting potential trouble with Taiwan is dangerous as limited nuclear weapons, lithography, and oil/gas supplies/pipelines as well as geography are all potential choke points in the near future.
From the perspective of history, he made a best decision for his life. If he had chosen to stay in China, he would have died or been prosecuted during the Cultural Revolution. He says if peace is there between Taiwan and China, then both can be winners. But now China's desire to invade Taiwan is growing more and more clear, this country is doing things preparing for invasion. As a democratic country, Taiwan wants peace indeed, but facing the growing threat from China, Taiwan truly gotta make some moves for protection. These two years may be more risky.
In 1949, 2 million people fled to Taiwan carried with 540 million people paid taxes and all cultural relics. Of course they would recover faster and better.
It’s also important to remember that the country of Taiwan was not a battleground for the Civil War (other than the incredibly small island of 金門) and it merely had uninvited guests from a war it didn’t partake in. Taiwan has its own history, thousands of years before Han people ever settled here. It’s been colonized by 4 different countries. Han people should also be allowed to live in areas outside of China without being claimed by China, just look at Singapore and Malaysia. If China can see this, accept it, and end their pursuit of Taiwan, when their fight is with the old invading government which doesn’t even rule the country of Taiwan, then peace is possible and will be a reality.
This is the best comment by far. It's staggering how the KMT was able to co-opt Taiwan for its own Nationalistic purposes and it has been able to hijack the narrative of Taiwan since it has occupied the island. The KMT seem to think they saved Taiwan from the CCP, when in reality, it was Taiwan that saved the KMT from the CCP.
@@scarfacejosh123 exactly. They had no where else to go so Taiwan was chosen due to close proximity. The KMT guys couldn’t give two shits about Taiwan, they just wanted a place to go. Just looking at how Chiang Kai-Shek treated the people in Taiwan. Bottom feeders to him and just a rest stop until he could continue his fight. 228 is next week. The horrors of what the KMT did shouldn’t be forgotten. Taiwan is a victim, it’s not a friend that chose to to help the KMT.
The aboriginal Taiwanese are virtually extinct like in every other country that was colonized hundreds of years ago. China is not claiming all those countries. PRC is claiming it is the legitimate successor to the ROC and all of its territories (though it is weird to be claiming to be a successor state when it is still around). I can't predict the future, but if Xi lets Taiwan go without a fight, I would not be surprised if he would overthrown in a military coup. I want to believe that at some point, the CCP will allow for actual elections at the local level. Don't know if I will live long enough to see it. A bigger Singapore. I believe if Chiang avoided the Chinese Civil War, the ROC would have became a constitutional republic.
@@thelastbison2241 There are over 560,000 indigenous peoples in Taiwan with most living on the east coast with their culture still intact. Xi can get killed by his people. He is pushing fabricated lies about PRC legitimacy over Taiwan. Japan only handed Taiwan to the ROC momentarily due to the swift surrender and so there wouldn’t be chaos and with further discussions to be had over Taiwan’s future, but the KMT became a single-party system and turned Taiwan into an authoritarian nation for the mere purpose that they could get stronger and fight the PRC. The island and people of Taiwan were never involved voluntarily. If anything the supporters of the old government can go to China and finish the civil war, but the people and the land here no dog in that fight. The same government doesn’t even rule Taiwan and China knows this, which is why they threaten war if Taiwan changes it constitution appropriately.
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Yes
@Eonclairedo you even know what woke means
just wanna say he walked from Heze, Shandong to Xiamen, Fujian. That is over 1500 kilometers
He didn't try to be Mao.. he just packed up and ran like the 14th Dali Lama.... a bitch.... Try this on me here in our nation... DISGUSTING BEHAVIOR... MAKES ME SICK
Kilometers!? Damn, in indonesia it would be java and a few island
Just imagine...how much those eyes have seen..... 😭
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We are lucky compared to the older generations
These are the people the world should be listening to, they've been through hardships, war and pain. They know best that it's never worth repeating it again.
I hope this man has and continues to have a life
In war there's no winner , in peace everybody wins.
Very emotional but ever so important story.
I love hearing stories where two soldiers from separate armies help each other. The human desire of love and care for one another can overcome many obstacles, but governments and egos get in the way.
I hope this man finds peace with his mother dying before he returned and realizes that she did wait for him as long as her natural life allowed her to.
I’m sure she waited each and every day, hoping she would meet him again.
Fantastic bit of journalism, thank you for sharing his story
MORE! Seriously this is something that is never spoken of in the West! I knew about the civil war and Kuomintang retreating to Taiwan but never heard stories about the struggle of normal people! I wish there was some good documentaries or articles, books or podcasts about it!
Such a great moving piece. Reminded me a lot of my dad.
My dad had a similar story. After becoming a us citizen at the end of the chinese exclusion act, he went back to China in 1982 to see his family but to only find out they all starved to death during Mao's great leap forward program.
@@jasondpa lol, just like there was no Holocaust in Germany or the Holodomor in Ukraine. Don't be stupid, there a TON of stories from Chinese people and reports of all the death that happened caused by Mao. The worst modern-day genocide was caused by Stalin and Mao, who were very close. Of course, murderers get along well with other murderers.
1982？you sure，Mao has already dead 6 years，and China already started reform and opening up...
Whats even more sad was that the first 5 year plan was actually successful, but not successful enough for mao, so he started the great leap forward which was disastrous
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@@jasondpa go away wumao!
Something to clear up first is that the Chinese Civil War was reigning BEFORE the start of world war 2, but the civil war was put on a ceasefire so China could temporarily unite against Japan, then after Japan was no longer a threat, the civil war resumed.
His story moved me deeply and reminded me of the story of how my great grandmother was hit and killed by a bomb whilst foraging for food up in the mountains for my grandmother in China. My grandfather (paternal side) also defected from the army whilst traveling to Taiwan and escaped to Malaysia. So much suffering and hardship everywhere…May all our ancestors rest in peace. ❤
Moga perjalanan hidup pak cik memberikan teladan & penghayatan buat generasi masa kini untuk mengenali erti keamanan
Thank you uncle🌻
My grandfather passed away in Malaysia after being kicked out of Vietnam in 78. Our family’s been through worse then most Americans that look down on Asians. All Asian were taught as a kid. Do better then other people. Everyone looks down on a Asian. Till this day. There still that going on
Such a good piece
Incredible story.
Fantastic video!
Wow what a incredible and sad story
more like this from vice!
"She didn't wait for me." I felt that! There is no winner in War. indeed!
what a remarkable man! i salute him. great content ty💗
"she didn't wait for me..." :(
Thanks for the heartbreaking story. People in the West need to educate more about Chinese wars!
He is a very nice lawyer staying in TW, helping lots of ppl like him bring ash back to China
Very powerful
Still walking and standing strong and was able to bring back the ashes of the fallen to China where they may also have mothers and fathers they haven't seen since.
🙌🏻❤️
在中国，很少人讨论这内战几千万人死亡的悲惨历史，尤其是从小人物角度，只是说三大战役和强调伟大胜利。
高秉涵 Gao Bingham
He did not say how his mother died.
His mom , maybe unintentionaly had help his son survived the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution . Sadly they cant have a proper farewell in the end :(
My maternal grandparents family was a KMT supporting family: both grandparents were persecuted during the cultural revolution. The communists were mostly gracious compared to previous decades of warlordism after winning the mainland. My maternal grandmother's uncle was a pilot (transport) for the nationalist airforce. So, everyone on her side was suppose to go to Taiwan. Her grandmother refused because she was determined to be buried in her hometown where she spent her entire life. Because of this, she stayed behind (the only one in her family besides her grandmother).
If Chiang showed more grace at the end of WWII and worked to revive China as a great power, his legacy would have been entirely different. If there was no KMT, China would have still been more divided like the warlordism era at the onset of Japanese invasion and his recovery of Xinjiang at the end of WWII prevented fragmentation of China. His obsession with destroying the communist delayed China emergence as a great power by decades. Instead, China became first a proxy of the Soviet Union through the Korean war and later American proxy through containment.
One can only hope Xi doesn't make the same mistake. From Chiang's point of view, he unified China (however imperfect) and defeated the Japanese ending China's humiliation while Mao had no comparable achievements (owning a few provinces and no major cities or industrialized region). It seems impossible for the KMT to lose at 1945 as China emerged for the first time in a century as a "policeman" while the rest of world were all colonies or under occupation. Yet, they did lose. Xi obviously cannot let Taiwan go, but he can do a lot more. Courting potential trouble with Taiwan is dangerous as limited nuclear weapons, lithography, and oil/gas supplies/pipelines as well as geography are all potential choke points in the near future.
From the perspective of history, he made a best decision for his life. If he had chosen to stay in China, he would have died or been prosecuted during the Cultural Revolution.
He says if peace is there between Taiwan and China, then both can be winners.
But now China's desire to invade Taiwan is growing more and more clear, this country is doing things preparing for invasion.
As a democratic country, Taiwan wants peace indeed, but facing the growing threat from China, Taiwan truly gotta make some moves for protection. These two years may be more risky.
In 1949, 2 million people fled to Taiwan carried with 540 million people paid taxes and all cultural relics. Of course they would recover faster and better.
Those "cultural artifacts" would have been destroyed in the Cultural revolution. KMT took those relics for that reason.
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Correction: 高秉涵
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I saw Spain in Vice Asia. I'm not sure if it was intentional to bring the problems of Europe to the minds of the Asians
Chinese Civil War lasted 22 years from August 1, 1949 - December 7, 1949.
It’s also important to remember that the country of Taiwan was not a battleground for the Civil War (other than the incredibly small island of 金門) and it merely had uninvited guests from a war it didn’t partake in.
Taiwan has its own history, thousands of years before Han people ever settled here. It’s been colonized by 4 different countries. Han people should also be allowed to live in areas outside of China without being claimed by China, just look at Singapore and Malaysia.
If China can see this, accept it, and end their pursuit of Taiwan, when their fight is with the old invading government which doesn’t even rule the country of Taiwan, then peace is possible and will be a reality.
This is the best comment by far. It's staggering how the KMT was able to co-opt Taiwan for its own Nationalistic purposes and it has been able to hijack the narrative of Taiwan since it has occupied the island. The KMT seem to think they saved Taiwan from the CCP, when in reality, it was Taiwan that saved the KMT from the CCP.
@@scarfacejosh123 exactly. They had no where else to go so Taiwan was chosen due to close proximity. The KMT guys couldn’t give two shits about Taiwan, they just wanted a place to go. Just looking at how Chiang Kai-Shek treated the people in Taiwan. Bottom feeders to him and just a rest stop until he could continue his fight.
228 is next week. The horrors of what the KMT did shouldn’t be forgotten. Taiwan is a victim, it’s not a friend that chose to to help the KMT.
The aboriginal Taiwanese are virtually extinct like in every other country that was colonized hundreds of years ago. China is not claiming all those countries. PRC is claiming it is the legitimate successor to the ROC and all of its territories (though it is weird to be claiming to be a successor state when it is still around). I can't predict the future, but if Xi lets Taiwan go without a fight, I would not be surprised if he would overthrown in a military coup.
I want to believe that at some point, the CCP will allow for actual elections at the local level. Don't know if I will live long enough to see it. A bigger Singapore. I believe if Chiang avoided the Chinese Civil War, the ROC would have became a constitutional republic.
@@thelastbison2241 There are over 560,000 indigenous peoples in Taiwan with most living on the east coast with their culture still intact. Xi can get killed by his people. He is pushing fabricated lies about PRC legitimacy over Taiwan.
Japan only handed Taiwan to the ROC momentarily due to the swift surrender and so there wouldn’t be chaos and with further discussions to be had over Taiwan’s future, but the KMT became a single-party system and turned Taiwan into an authoritarian nation for the mere purpose that they could get stronger and fight the PRC. The island and people of Taiwan were never involved voluntarily. If anything the supporters of the old government can go to China and finish the civil war, but the people and the land here no dog in that fight. The same government doesn’t even rule Taiwan and China knows this, which is why they threaten war if Taiwan changes it constitution appropriately.
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As a foreigner, Taiwan is my second best country I have ever lived in.
people's liberation army's the best
nope
they are just nightmares
Glory to PRC
not the commie
Ellliiiiiioooootttttttt 😂
Hope both sides of your pillow is hot