For five minutes, the audience learns about the poverty of the Chinese peasant, who gets by on a bowl of rice a day, with his daughters cared for by missionaries. Then it's Japanese invading and China uniting. Then it's burial practices, and we're off to Mongolia.
Even then China was a vast and populous nation, so the sense of rushing from one aspect to another is not so bizarre. Even so, this looks to have been shot and edited by what seem to have been very warlike Christians, one moment feeding the hungry, the next exhorting China to rise and throw out the invader..... and poor, oppressed Mongolians, too. What had they ever done to anyone?
It's understandable. For westerners, the Second World War started in 1939 if you are a European, 1941 if an American. For China it began in 1931, with the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. They had already been fighting for six years by the time this was released.
Even then China was a vast and populous nation, so the sense of rushing from one aspect to another is not so bizarre. Even so, this looks to have been shot and edited by what seem to have been very warlike Christians, one moment feeding the hungry, the next exhorting China to rise and throw out the invader..... and poor, oppressed Mongolians, too. What had they ever done to anyone?
It's understandable. For westerners, the Second World War started in 1939 if you are a European, 1941 if an American. For China it began in 1931, with the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. They had already been fighting for six years by the time this was released.