China Memories: Shanghai 10 years ago
This is a video in which I just want to reminisce about my gorgeous 3 years in Shanghai, from 2012-2014. Enjoy the pictures which hopefully are able to transport the inspiring Shanghai attitude of life.
- many pictures have been taken by M. Rebel: https://www.youtube.com/@rebelsmoment
- music is by Valeriy Stepanov, Believe in Yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrG3x00vo6U
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Controversial: China and the tyranny of Xi Jinping
This is a video of the series "Controversial", in which I deal with controversial topics and share my view on them.
In this particular clip I deal with the questions, if president Xi is a tyrant and how autocratic the Chinese government is.
- Bloomberg, Former China Leader Helped on Stage at Opening Ceremony, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTk-XaE_PVY
- CNN, China's censors blocked CNN while reporting this surprising moment, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HQ_AVAJlKE
- I absolutely recommend this video by Cyrus Janssen: China's 20th Party Congress Explained! Everything You Need to Know, www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOBWX_l1wks
- and this one from him, Harvard Economist Reveals Shocking SECRET About China In 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHFgPitwM7I
- music is by Koinonia, Come Share My World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDiyTosrs10
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Controversial: How aggressive is China?
This is a video of the series "Controversial", in which I deal with controversial topics and share my view on them.
In this particular clip I demonstrate that the aggressive Western media portrait of China is nothing more than fabrication, by showing mere people and listing interesting facts.
If you don't know or doubt that Taiwan is a part of China, I recommend to you the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8W1WpMQz_o
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07. The philosophy
What fascinates me the most in China, is the wise and pragmatic way of handling life's requirements.
This video tries to demonstrate the Chinese philosophy and mentality as we perceived it many times.
Music: Jason Rebello/Summertime
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10. Controversial: Being a Christian in China
This is a video of the series "Controversial", in which I deal with controversial topics and share my view on them.
In this particular clip I investigate the "freedom of religious belief".
For in the West you hear a lot of "Christian persecution" in China. Let's get to the bottom of it.
The intended audience of this video is mainly the Western Christian community, still believing way out-dated stories, which meanwhile became pure myths.
Music: Shaun Martin/7Summers, The Yellow Jacket
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01. Welcome back!
End of May 2023 we spent 3 wonderful weeks vacations in China and faced many fascinating moments, of which we want to share the most exciting ones.
This video tries to catch some peculiar amusing, remarkable or breath-taking spots of our first weekend, which turned out to be the typical Chinese warm-hearted high-speed-life.
Music:
Brian Culbertson/Let's Take a Ride
Brian Culbertson/Hey Girl
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11. Controversial: China - Massive Surveillance
This is a video of the series "Controversial", in which I deal with controversial topics and share my view on them.
In this particular clip I investigate the relationship between the Chinese and their infamous vast amount of surveillance cameras.
For in the Western media president Xi gets portrayed as a tyrant, oppressing that poor suffering Chinese people by millions of surveillance cameras. Let's investigate in this video the relation between surveillance and freedom in China, as confirmed by multiple visits in China and our last vacations 2023.
Music: Pat Metheny Group/Here To Stay, Here To Stay (Album Version)
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08. Food and restaurants
The idea for this video was born out of our vacations in end of May 2023, and is a snapshot of the amazing Chinese food we happened to enjoy and the restaurants we came in contact with.
Music: Michael Bublé/Quando, Quando, Quando (with Nelly Furtado)
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12a. China uncut: Qingdao, jogging in the mornings
This is a video of the series "Uncut", in which we show uncut live recordings, joined together. These clips serve three purposes: at first it shall just document the environment as it was 2023. Then it helps us to quench the thirst next time we long to return to China. And the last benefit is, that the whole setup with relaxing background music is excellently suited to calm down and get sleepy - for those among us that could need it.
In this particular clip I show recordings during my jogging sessions in the early mornings, where in some of them I talked to Chinese and asked them for instance what they feel about China.
00:00 Compound
01:32 SongLingLu
03:01 Golf club
03:37 Behind golf club
05:23 Women sweeping
06:57 Market garden
08:56 School bus
12:54 Snack bar
15:57 Construction site and survey
22:48 Old women working
25:07 Worker
28:37 Old stone man beach
Songlist:
Bound to Move
Get Down II
Running In The Sun
Impression
Chapter in My Book
Red Snow
夜間飛行
She The Devil-14664
Album: Norri Jane/
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12c. China uncut: Qingdao, TaiPingJiao and beach no. 3
This is a video of the series "Uncut", in which we show uncut live recordings, joined together. These clips serve three purposes: at first it shall just document the environment as it was 2023. Then it helps us to quench the thirst next time we long to return to China. And the last benefit is, that the whole setup with relaxing background music is excellently suited to calm down and get sleepy - for those among us that could need it.
In this particular clip we walk through the extended area of our former flat called TaiPingJiao, which is in or near the quite famous area BaDaGuan, and walk also on the beach no. 3.
00:00 TaiPingJiao 3rd road
02:48 Reaching beach no. 3
05:13 Strolling on beach no. 3
08:44 Swim station of beach no. 3
11:04 On the promenade
19:26 TaiPingJiao statue
21:20 QueShan road
22:16 ZhanShan 1st road
27:26 ZhanShan bus stop
33:32 Kindergarten
Songlist:
New York New York
One Night Only
Sunsplash
Skybreaks (Jazzanova Remix)
Dropping Knowledge
Parkour (Album)
Get It On
Heavy Piano
Album: DJ Cam Quartet/Rebirth of Cool
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02. Qingdao's beaches
This video is a snapshot of some of Qingdao's beaches, its cliffs and promenades - during daylight and in the nights, when the light show is on.
Music:
Lisa Bassenge Trio/Going Home, Like A Virgin
Michael Bublé/Try a Little Tenderness
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12f. China uncut: Qingdao, a summer night
This is a video of the series "Uncut", in which we show uncut live recordings, joined together. These clips serve three purposes: at first it shall just document the environment as it was 2023. Then it helps us to quench the thirst next time we long to return to China. And the last benefit is, that the whole setup with relaxing background music is excellently suited to calm down and get sleepy - for those among us that could need it.
In this particular clip we enjoy a summer night, strolling at the promenades, being fascinated by the light skyline.
00:00 Statue promenade
07:11 Aomen road promenade
08:04 TaiPingJiao promenade
20:02 TaiPingJiao park
22:27 TaiPingJiao corner
25:48 To Qingdao symbol
32:30 Dragon dance part 1
36:42 Dragon dance part 2
47:14 Street music
55:46 Metro home
59:12 Road home
1:06:05 Enter home
Songlist:
Raindrops
The Roots Way
The Souldier
I Dream Of You
Flowers at Dinner
Afrotek
Crooked Hip
Road Song (feat. Fabrizio Bosso) [Edit] (Edit)
Comes Love
Night Bus
Album: Polose, Paolo Sessa/Lo Fi Jazz Masters Vol.1
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12e. China uncut: Qingdao, ZhongShan park
This is a video of the series "Uncut", in which we show uncut live recordings, joined together. These clips serve three purposes: at first it shall just document the environment as it was 2023. Then it helps us to quench the thirst next time we long to return to China. And the last benefit is, that the whole setup with relaxing background music is excellently suited to calm down and get sleepy - for those among us that could need it.
In this particular clip we walk in the ZhongShan park, also strolling around in the forest.
00:00 To the forest tower
19:11 To north east
30:44 To south
41:31 Forest strolling part 1
51:51 Forest strolling part 2
Songlist:
Happy Go Lucky
Turn Down the Heat
The Sun Says Goodbye
Hardcastle Boogie
Rainforest
Echoes Rising
Universal Vibes
Wishing on a Star
Lost Summer
Bird Island
Album: Paul Hardcastle/Hardcastle 8
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09. The last day, in Shanghai
End of May 2023 we spent 3 wonderful weeks vacations in China and faced many fascinating moments, of which we want to share the most exciting ones.
This video tries to catch some peculiar amusing, remarkable or breath-taking spots of our last vacations day, which we spent in my old hometown Shanghai.
Music:
Jeff Lorber/Keep That Same Ol' Feelin',Keep That Same Ol' Feelin'
Jamie Cullum/Everlasting Love
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Controversial: are the Chinese polite?
This is a video of the series "Controversial", in which I deal with controversial topics and share my view on them.
In this particular clip I investigate the famous or infamous politeness of Chinese and deal with some of the typical prejudices
Music is from Valeriy Stepanov: https://www.youtube.com/@ValeriyStepanov
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Controversial: Smog and pollution in China
This is a video of the series "Controversial", in which I deal with controversial topics and share my view on them.
In this particular clip I demonstrate that China became green and is on a far better track than for instance Germany in regards to energy transition.
- If you want to know more about the thorium nuclear reactor in the gobi desert, I recommend to you the video:
• Americans CAN'T Believe What China Bu... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nyqNaRRvGM
- Here is a video of the American climate hypocrisy:
• US Climate Hypocrisy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEMfrCHQmZI
- All statistics mentioned in the clip are won by simple google queries and can easily be verified
Music:
Valeriy Stepanov, "The sun": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJINf8igFKQ
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06. China's infrastructure
The idea for this video was born out of our vacations in end of May 2023, and is a snapshot of the amazing Chinese infrastructure we came in contact with.
Music:
Jacob Collier/Human Nature, on BBC proms
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12d. China uncut: Qingdao, KuangQuanHuaYuan
This is a video of the series "Uncut", in which we show uncut live recordings, joined together. These clips serve three purposes: at first it shall just document the environment as it was 2023. Then it helps us to quench the thirst next time we long to return to China. And the last benefit is, that the whole setup with relaxing background music is excellently suited to calm down and get sleepy - for those among us that could need it.
In this particular clip we walk through the area of our former flat (whose compound name was "KuangQuanHuaYuan"), which is in or near the quite famous area BaDaGuan.
00:00 Leaving sister's home
02:44 DongHai 1st road to KuangQuanHuaYuan
28:13 Our flat in KuangQuanHuaYuan
35:22 Passing through KuangQuanHuaYuan
38:14 Walk to training center, part 1
43:55 Walk to training center, part 2
Songlist:
Better Kind of Bitter
Are You down for Love
Goodbye so Long
Give Me Your Love
Free This Feeling
Come Clean
Go All In
I Don't Wanna Wait
More Than Just a Fling
Grow
Album: Peachy Pavement, Jobii, L.M. Styles/
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05. Qingdao's relax areas
What most people in the West can't imagine, because they are told otherwise: Chinese cities meanwhile have a lot areas in which everybody can calm down and relax.
This video is an attempt to transport the feelings of some Qingdao's recreation areas.
Music:
Michael Franks/Barefoot On The Beach
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12g. China uncut: Shanghai, my old places
This is a video of the series "Uncut", in which we show uncut live recordings, joined together. These clips serve three purposes: at first it shall just document the environment as it was 2023. Then it helps us to quench the thirst next time we long to return to China. And the last benefit is, that the whole setup with relaxing background music is excellently suited to calm down and get sleepy - for those among us that could need it.
In this particular clip we show recordings of the last day of the vacations 2023, spent in Shanghai, at which we visited some of my favorite places when I lived in Shanghai from 2012/01 - 2014/08.
00:00 YanChang road
07:09 YiChuan compound
20:17 YiChuan park, part 1
27:57 YiChuan park, part 2
30:00 LaMian
30:28 YiChuan area
37:12 Metro, part 1
38:18 DaNing mall
51:01 DaRunFa grocery
56:53 DQ ice cream
59:19 Metro, part 2
59:55 WuLuMuQi road / FuXingXi road
1:16:38 To the bund
1:17:37 Celebrating being on the bund
1:21:10 The bund
1:21:40 Leaving the bund
Songlist:
Staying For Good
Everlasting Rose
Sofisticata (Nicola Conte's Soft Samba Mix)
Copacabana
I Still Don't Believe It
The Spirit Of Summer (Dave Warrin Remix)
MYSTIC ROOM
Never Be There (Remasterd)
Noisuf (Raw Jazz Take)
Shibuia
Album: Papik, Alan Scaffardi/Nu Jazz & Grooves
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04. A weekend in LaoShan
End of May 2023 we spent 3 wonderful weeks vacations in China and faced many fascinating moments, of which we want to share the most exciting ones.
This video tries to catch some peculiar amusing, remarkable or breath-taking spots of our weekend with friends in the LaoShan mountains near Qingdao.
Music: Joyce Cooling/Mildred's Attraction, Mildred's Attraction
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Controversial: China and (the violation of) human rights
This is a video of the series "Controversial", in which I deal with controversial topics and share my view on them.
In this particular clip I investigate the situation of the human rights in China and its violations.
- the Chinese constitution in english: http://en.npc.gov.cn.cdurl.cn/constitution.html
- incarceration rate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate
- embassy comment about the Uyghurs genocide accusations: http://id.china-embassy.gov.cn/eng/sgdt/202206/t20220622_10707637.htm
- violence comparison between the US and China: https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/China/United-States/Crime/Violent-crime
- U.S. Economist Jeffrey D. Sachs on American Failure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8RZPqlDG8U
- music is by Al Jarreau: We're in this love together: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otVH5cv9z1A
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03. 4 days in ZhangJiaJie
End of May 2023 we spent 3 wonderful weeks vacations in China and faced many fascinating moments, of which we want to share the most exciting ones.
This video tries to catch some peculiar amusing, remarkable or breath-taking spots of our 4 days trip to the marvelous ZhangJiaJie mountains, which have been e.g. the film setting for the Avatar movie.
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