WW1: The Siege of Tsingtao
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The only battle to be fought in the Far East during World War One had a profound and lasting impact on Chinese-Japanese relations. Germany controlled the port of Tsingtao (modern day Qingdao) on the east coast of China until an Anglo-Japanese force invaded in September 1914. As part of a BBC series looking at stories beyond the trenches, Carol Yarwood from the BBC Chinese service recounts the Siege of Tsingtao.
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The only battle to be fought in the Far East during WW1 had a profound and lasting impact on Chinese-Japanese relations. Germany controlled the port of Tsingtao (modern day Qingdao) on the east coast of China until an Anglo-Japanese force invaded in September 1914.
Germany....
Imagine Germany controlling all of China today.
Actually, shouldn't it be correctly referred to as "Ango-Nipponese"? Japan's official name is Nippon, after all.
Michael Ireland In Chinese, China is called Zhong Guo (maybe hard for you to pronounce, it is very close to "Chong Kuo"), which means "Central Nation".
Michael Ireland Nippon is Japanese pronunciation of Japan, which means "The Place where sun rises". Write in Chinese Characters is "日本", "日" is pictograph of the sun. China in Chinese characters is "中国". Britain is "英国", both China and Japan use "英" refer to Britain. That pronounce "in". It's funny because England is part of Britain but we call Britain as England.
Imagine Chinese and Japanese people ending up drunk with tons of beer after the war.
Not mentioned are over 4000 German POW's including some German civilians spent 5 years in Japan until the end of WWI. Some elected to stay in Japan such as Karl Juchheim who started his bake shop Juchheim and till this day is famous for its Baumkuchen. Cheers.
yes, the staff of the bakery company still take visit back to Qingdao for reviewing company history nowadays.
My great grandpa was among them but from what I gather from his diary they were treated very well.
Hopefully this will be turned into a bf1 map.
A.W Mac-C They NEED a DLC commited to far out colonies only, they could include the siege of Tsingtao, maybe 2 maps from german east and west Africa and maybe the battle near Australia
"battle near Australia" ??
A.W Mac-C I'm sorry, I should have been more clear. Various small German colonies on some island near Australia
Are you referring to the small "battles" on German New guinea? Because if you are I don't think they were big enough battles to be included in any dlc. East or West Africa however would be great places for a dlc and I expect to see them in the future.
They probably will have Africa, Jutland, China, and maybe Russian Civil War later.
Searched for the beer incident. Came to learn more history of Tsingtao
Fun fact: when the combined Japanese and British offensive and siege came to an end and resulting in a Japanese occupation the German officers saluted to the Japanese soldiers when surrendering while spat on the faces of the British soldiers and looked away on their victory march.
Because Germans have no sense of respect
@@chillaxo9863 Or maybe because the british kinda used the japanese as a meatshield.
Britain lost way less men than Japan during that siege.
@@BavarianHobbit Well, Britain had far fewer men in the siege in the first place.
@@thejoin4687 Thats not the only reason. They literally let the japanese attack first before advancing themselves.
@@BavarianHobbit It was Japan's show, basically. Would it have made sense to send in the token British force as the first wave?
It was no Bavarian outpost, it was mostly the Prussian culture, that was spread there.
Onkel Fabs Teutonic Knights were the first to colonize
Great info. Ty!
The Chinese have the Germans to thank for introducing beer to their country. Throughout the tumults of the 20th Century, the Tsingdao brewery proved its worth to every regime which came along.
Well that's naive of you to say. Production and consumption of beer in China has occurred for around nine thousand years, with recent archaeological findings showing that Chinese villagers were brewing beer-type alcoholic drinks as far back as 7000 BC on small and individual scales.
It's not wrong to assume that the Chinese could have adopted some brewing techniques from Germany however, it's entirely false to say that China didn't have beer until Germany introduced it to China.
@@TheDangerRoom1776 yeah but tsingtao beer made it V E R Y popular
arrogant and out of truth
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Depends on different chinese people,some people like foreign culture,and some others do not
not all Chinese people love OR hate the Germany influence in Tsingtao
I live in Tsingtao, You can still see some of the siege work now
I‘m afraid the journalist made a wrong pronunciation of the name of the city...
They made a good beer tho
It wasn't "in the interests of the west to keep China broken", that's just typical Chinese victimhood and conspiracy theorising. The Allies weren't wasting time plotting against China, China wasn't important, what was important was keeping Japan happy and the price for Japanese support was Qingdao and the other German colonies in the Pacific, the Marianas and Caroline Islands. As a matter of fact Japan wasn't happy with the outcome of Versailles either, they had wanted a declaration of racial equality, particularly that Asians were equal to Europeans in world affairs and they didn't get it. Presumably the French and British didn't want an idea like that gaining traction in their Asian colonies.
+grassic If the West wanted China to stay broken, why all the arms and technology sales, government loans and military missions?
Especially the British were keen on keeping China as a whole to be able to have only a single counterpart for trade opposed to several.
+grassic France signed that racial equality treaty though. Australia and the USA refused because they did have race laws. Britain vetoed too, in support of Australia.
They believed a strong united China would ally with Japan and threaten "western Christian culture"
Imperial Japan's actions in China has caused much resentment from the Chinese and that lead to another sino-Japanese war! The Japanese empire has pursuit their goal by force but that achieved nothing at the end and her defeated by the allies! One of the reason was they ignored the Chinese perspective.
all of you are gay
Came for this video on purpose. How time flies and the rupture continues growing
On the one hand, acknowledges Germany's imperialist takeover was the best thing for Tsingtao; on the other, blames the West for Japan holding on to Tsingtao after the war. Japan would have agreed to hand it over to the Chinese because the West said so? I doubt it.
Does anyone have any clue what the German music is called
Really good reporting on a little known part of World War 1. As Asia grows in importance, the Asian perspective in seminal events like the Great War can no longer be overlooked.
Will we have peace one day in these regions confritos constant?
+Puuugu What Asian perspective? Apart from Qingdao the Great War didn't touch Asia
About 100,000 Chinese Labourers went to France to help with the French war effort too.
Yes, that's true, but it didn't seriously affect China itself. Filipinos were recruited into the US Army as well but Great War was peripheral to Asia and Asia was peripheral to the war. I live in China and if you ask ordinary Chinese about the Great War they generally don't know much about it and dont think it concerns them. I don't think you'd find that quite so much in Europe. The real consequence in China of the war was the May 4th Movement which unfortunately never really achieved very much.
My great grandfather fought in this battle for the Japanese
This siege was also the first time that airplanes launched from ships were used in combat, when the Japanese seaplane carrier Wakamiya deployed French made Farman MF.11 seaplanes to bomb German and Austro-Hungarian fortifications and gunboats. Interestingly, the Wakamiya was originally built in Britain for the Russians as the Lethington, but was captured by the Japanese which en route to Vladivostok during the Russo-Japanese War in 1905. The Wakamiya was later modified after the siege into a regular aircraft carrier, and lessons learned from the ship were implemented in building and deploying the next generation of Japanese aircraft carriers that fought in WWII.
nice editing.
I don't understand what Germany was doing in China. How was Qingdao defended from mainland China skrimishes. How can a foreign nation, so far from home, not only build up a place but also protect it. Or was China allowing them to have the port?
Also this is where Tsingtao beer comes from, so thank Germans for that
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The German Empire, of which it was part, isn't the "3rd Reich".
I do not too
brod2man Germany was colonizing Asia thats all I know
china was extremly inferior to the german empire so they wouldn't even dare attaking a colony
Germany had a big navy during that time a big navy was more than enough to increase your influence in the world and be able to move your troops. Germany got the port from negotiations with China.
Germany has too few troops in Tsingtao. Otherwise the war should probably drag on until 1915.
WoW , I didn't know How Far Germany Had Taken it's Army , all way to Asia WW1 , Era
Why would you have someone with a heavy accent to narrate in English??? You couldn't find anyone that could speak clearly?
Whay no Austrians! 🇦🇹 What about the Maria Theresa? 🤔
Internal affairs kept austria hungary from getting colonies. The austrians had to keep the croats,serbs,bosnians,hungarians,poles,ukrainians,bohemians and slovaks in line. That meant lots of time wasted pleasing the own country first but that was futile as well in the end.
what happed to the german soldiers graves
Why'd they siege on crappy beer?
They beer wasn't important, the food was
I dont drink that beer
Funny thing is that Northern China traditionally was apart of mongol empire
+B Mc Northern Chinese are Mongolian. Not Chinese
sianspana viva they might also be manchu
Northern China is kinda vast, which part are you talking about?
Shandong, the province Tsingtao is a part of has always been a central part of China.
same for Russians
Who would win:
- Most Heavily armed and well trained army in the World
Vs
-ONE BANZAİ BOİ
The narrator is spewing Chinese nationalist nonsense.
China’s interest was overlooked at Versailles not because it was in the Great Powers interest to keep China broken. If so there wouldn’t be an Open Door Policy.
China’s interest was sacrificed because Japan is a major power by then and is on the rise, and Japans war contribution had been much greater than China’s.
Lasst die alten Fahnen weh'n... Deutschland, heilig Vaterland!
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do you still want to die
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Glory to China :D!
No way.
Ha got your ass beat in more than one war, wasn't for the idiotic declaration of war on the US Japan would have forced you to concede more territory.
Lol all financed by western zionists and western tech. It has become the slavery workshop of the world. So what is there to be jealous about?
Restore german rule to Tsingtao
Tsunami says no 😂😂😂😂
Rule Brittania! Banzai Nippon!
BBC bullshit.
Japan sought to return Tsingtao to China, (but with conditions, after all, China had already conceded the German territory to Japan, by treaty, in 1915), at the Washington Conference, (1921-1922). Japan didn't want to have China hand Tsingtao and the Shantung peninsula, over to some other colonial power after giving it back to China, (such as the United States). China had "leased" this territory to Germany for "99 years," (just as it had "leased" the New Territories, next to Hong Kong, to the British Empire, for "99 years," and as Japan had "leased" Manchurian territory from the Chinese Empire). The Chinese delegation didn't want any conditions, nor to pay any compensation for Japanese improvements, (such as the railway on Shantung), nor to repay the Chinese government's debts. Japan did give control of Tsingtao and Shantung to the Chinese warlords, but managed to retain their economic concerns. This propaganda piece seeks to condemn Japan, (as the May Fourth Movement did), and to overlook the rampant corruption of Chinese governments from 1898 to 1949, (in allowing foreign concessions and extra-territorial privileges), that provided similar concessions to other foreign governments, (including the British Empire).
China should have just accepted colonialism and continued to bow to their Anglo-European counterparts with pride. Would have made a better world.