Summary of Video
This short ten-minute video is a promotional video for the city of Quanzhou. First, the video explains Quanzhou’s ancient history. Under the Song and Yuan dynasties, Quanzhou was both a huge maritime trade port as well as a city with many religions and ethnic groups co-existing peacefully. Since the city has maintained their historical sites and cultural relics so well, the city is listed in both the Cultural Heritage List and Memory of the World Register. Second, the video explains how Quanzhou has been a pilot city for China’s “real economy”, which promotes and expands private industries. Quanzhou has several major industries: textiles garments, shipbuilding, footwear, home furnishing, petrochemical, and mechanized equipment. The surrounding areas are also doing well in growing tea, designing ceramics, and making aromatics. The video concludes that Quanzhou is a city that strives towards industrial transformation and technological innovations.
Interesting Tidbit
Although this isn’t related to my guiding questions, it was interesting to learn that Quanzhou and Fujian’s local Chinese population under the Song and Yuan dynasty created special types of music. Known as the “living fossils”, these musical styles include Nanyin music and Liyuan opera. The Nanyin includes the playing of local instruments and lyrics from the local Fujian dialect.
Connection to Guiding Question
I watched this video because I wanted to see how much of the old Quanzhou is present in the modern-day Quanzhou. It still is. Like the Quanzhou that was ruled under the Song and Yuan dynasties, modern-day Quanzhou relies on manufacturing and cash crops to boost its economy. Quanzhou and its surrounding areas manufactures ships, grows tea, and designs textiles and ceramics, like Quanzhou did under the Yuan Dynasty. Of course, modern-day Quanzhou has expanded its industries to include manufacturing buses, creating home furnishing, and designing footwear. From 900AD to 2017 AD, Quanzhou is a city that strives towards industrial transformation and technological innovations.
YANG, J. (2018, September 7). 中国福建泉州2017城市宣传片(China Quanzhou 2017 City Promotional Film) [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/cTWCdHqS3Dc
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