Communist China Roots Of Madness Reel-2

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R2:00:11:29;03

Map shows the third valley in China as the West River flows past Canton and empties into the sea at Hong Kong. Scenes of boats in Hong Kong harbor. Scenes of Chinese life in a coastal city where most Westerners lived. Chinese used as source of labor to move all goods, most wore pigtails a symbol of submission to the Manchu Dynasty.

In the Forbidden City image of the aging Empress Cixi, spirit broken by the Boxer War, lingered dying until 1908. Three years after the death of Empress Cixi, and with no leader, the Qing Dynasty (Manchu Dynasty) simply disappeared.

R2:00:13:41;19

Image of General Yuan Shikai, a Chinese general, politician and Emperor, famous for his influence during the late Qing (Manchu) Dynasty and his role in the events leading up to the abdication of Henry Pu Yi (Puyl) the last Qing Emperor. CU image of Yuan Shikai.

R2:00:14:09;09

Image of Sun Yat-sen, a Chinese revolutionary, the first president and founding father of the Republic of China on the platform of a railway train car. Brief history and CU image of Sun Yat-sen . Shows protest riots of Chinese students, followers of Sun Yat-sen, in 1919.

R2:00:15:02;22

The Warlord Era in China. Shows Chinese followers of warlord General Yuan Shikai training to fight with the Manchu Broadsword. Footage of horse-drawn artillery and a motorcar (automobile) with window mounted machine gun. Their purpose was to rule by killing. Animated map illustrates how warlords divided China into military cliques. Images of various Chinese warlords during that era. Pearl Buck gives an interesting observation of the fighting patterns of the Chinese warlords.

R2:00:16:36;15

Footage of warlord Chang Tso-lin (Zhang Zuolin) Overlord of Manchuria. Footage of warlord Feng Yuxiang inspecting his soldiers. Scenes of brutality and killing by Chinese warlords. Chinese refuges fleeing warlord military cliques to the colony of hated foreigners seeking safety. Shows starving Chinese beggars in the mid 1920s. U.S. State Department Officer Ernest Price tells of starving children begging for food as his train travelled through China in during the North China famine in the 1920s.

R2:00:18:53;12

Lifestyle scenes of foreigners (westerners) or expatriates living in the Western Enclaves on the coast of China in the 1920s. Shows beautiful home of a foreigner or expatriate. Shows foreigner or expatriate carried by Chinese servant bearers on a palanquin or sedan chair.

R2:00:19:31;12

Scenes of Westerners (foreigners) in Shanghai China in the 1920s. Outside the western enclaves Chinese students calling for revolt led by Sun Yat-sen. Newspaper headline in 1923 reads “Foreign Control At Peking Means War Says Sun Yat-Sen”. Sun Yat-Sen turn to the Soviet Government of Russia for weapons. Mikhail Borodin, a Russian Communist, arrived in Peking in September 1923 to work as chief political adviser to Sun Yat-sen and the Kuomintang Central Executive Committee. Mikhail Borodin persuades Sun Yat-sen to let the small Chinese Communist Party of 430 members join Sun Yat-sen's Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang of China or KMT ). Image of a Chinese Communist Party (CPC) meeting in the early 1920s. Image of Sun Yat-sen and a young Chiang Kai-shek.