China has a history of 5,000 years of civilization. In the past few decades, China’s economy has developed rapidly, and tourists from all over the world have come to be famous. Some foreigners have started a new life here and have a new understanding of China. Some people introduce China’s customs, life habits, travel and transportation, and the latest technology on YouTube. These foreign youtubers living in China reflect China through the lens. These videos and texts reflecting the new face of China have been loved and sought after by people all over the world.
This post will introduce to you which youtubers use video to shoot and reflect contemporary China.
1.Barrett 看中国
Youtuber: Lee Barrett & Oli Barrett
Channel Name: Barrett
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/BarrettYT
This is a video blog operated by a pair of fathers and sons from the UK. They shoot videos in the form of conversation or experience life, and then post them to YouTube and video platforms in China. Because the video shot is true and objective, it has also been questioned by some anti-China media in the UK. Father Lee Barrett is a British YouTuber who has lived in China for 12 years. He has worked and lived in Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. In 2020, due to dissatisfaction with the misleading reports on China by the West, I decided to make a video with my son Oli Barrett, and use their end to show a real China. They visit the Forbidden City, eat lamb buns, unlock authentic roast ducks, experience China’s high-speed rail, talk about why the West cannot control the epidemic, refute the remarks that “China has no freedom”, and share the heart-to-heart talk of the father and son on the generation gap.
“No one can influence the content of our video. What Oli and I said in the video are from the heart, based on what we have seen and heard in China, and are our own opinions.”
At present, his son oli is studying Chinese in a small city-Yangshuo, Guangxi. He seems to have a long-term plan to live in China.
2.Jerry Kowal 我是郭杰瑞
Youtuber: Jerry Kowal
Channel Name: Jerry Kowal
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfIbForcbE83cxm8MScOTlQ
Guo Jerry is a Jew from the United States with excellent Jewish wealth genes. He himself was born in a wealthy family in New York. Guo Jerry is a video blogger and food blogger. His videos mainly introduce cultural differences between China and the United States.
When he was in college, Guo Jerry went to Taiwan Province to study Chinese for a few months, so he fell in love with Chinese culture and Chinese food. He claims to be more spicy than Sichuanese. He often commented on “this is not spicy” when making food videos.
Guo Jerry’s team consists of 3 people. One is responsible for domestic affairs in China. The shooting is done by Jerry and the photographer. The editing and post-subtitles are all the responsibility of the photographer. He revealed that before recording, you generally need to think about what to shoot today, what the subject is, and where to shoot.
There are many differences between China and the United States. This is the source of inspiration for Guo Jerry’s creation. Guo Jerry believes that most people will care about new and different things. There are many differences between the United States and China. If you can take pictures of this difference for everyone to see, this is what everyone wants to see.
3.the JaYoe Nation 加油马特
Youtuber: Matt
Channel Name: The Jayoe Nation
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/JaYoeNation
Matt was born in Detroit, USA. He reaped the first wealth of his life by selling “Made in China” products more than ten years ago. Therefore, in 2009, he gave up his life in the United States and came to Ningbo, Zhejiang Province alone, where he became attached to his wife of Chinese nationality. Today, Matt has lived in China for 12 years. In addition to making money, Universal Cycling was included in Matt’s life wish list. He has traveled to Malaysia, Japan, Singapore and other places by bicycle. Last year, he set his travel destinations in many places in China, and kept sharing his travel experiences in China on social platforms at home and abroad.
Matt’s view of China and the West is like this: “In the eyes of Westerners, it was possible that most parts of China were flat land and rice fields, and there were low-wage child laborers in factories, and these were affected by media information. When I came here After that, I saw that China was not as I knew it. China has large cities with ten thousand feet of tall buildings rising from the ground. Each city has a unique history and culture. Chinese businessmen are very interesting. Many people have their own “get rich.” password”.”
4.Jason 在中国
Youtuber: Jason Lightfoot
Channel Name: Living in China
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/JasonLightfootLivinginChina
Jason is a video blogger from the UK who lives in Xingyi, a small city in China. Xingyi was full of people at night, with restaurants, Internet cafes and restaurants next to each other. When you walk into the Internet cafe, you can see the young people playing games are very comfortable; when you walk into the food court, you can see three or five friends having a beer together; when you walk into the square, you can see the aunts and grandpas with smiling faces , Zheng He is dancing the square dance. All kinds of scenes surprised the British blogger and lamented that China is definitely the safest country.
He also said that if you are in the UK and you insist on going out late at night, then you have a high chance of being stabbed or robbed. It’s hard to imagine a situation like China where it is as safe at night as it is during the day. Jason said that he really likes to be able to go out at night, which is why he likes to live in China.
5.NathanRich 火锅大王
Youtuber: NathanRich
Channel Name: NathanRich Hot Pot King
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/NathanRichHotpot
Nathan Rich is a Youtube broadcaster in China. In the video, he claimed that his parents were divorced, and that he was taken into a cult by his mother since he was a child and suffered extensive abuse. During adolescence, he had no formal education, and spent some years fooling around with street gangsters. Later, after being casually awakened by a word, he learned computer technology and became the CTO of basefx, a special effects company of “Flow Earth”. Now Nathan Rich has resigned to work as a Youtuber full-time, and has produced many videos exposing the unfair coverage of China by Western media. The video is well made and very standard.