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If this is what passes for a great documentary at Sundance then I hate to tell you but the
emperor
has no clothes.
Drawn from legends and folk tales about the emperor, much of the film is not historical fact.
While this engaging film wonderfully depicts the evolution of a young man into the ferocious killing machine
emperor
called ChandAshoka (Wild Ashoka) it pays little attention to the much more vital legacy as DharmAshoka (Faithful Ashoka).
Sharply satirical, hilariously funny, intelligent, but also in terms terribly dated comedy about the stupidity, lack of heroism and relentless worship of the German
emperor
united in the title character, a lazy student.
A blend of old-world atavism and crystal clear imagery, compounded with lush art direction and stirring music, Asoka is a haunting journey into the life of India's greatest
emperor.
Xi, like any other emperor, will continue to appoint courtiers who follow him wherever he leads.
During moments of political transition – a military victory, for example – the
emperor
might designate a special “era name” to help celebrate the good news.
The last
emperor
of the Tang Dynasty proclaimed seven era names in fourteen years, as he sought in vain to “re-brand” his reign and avoid his regime’s demise.
A weak
emperor
(the president of the French Football Federation) chose an incompetent general (the coach Raymond Domenech), who failed to inspire mercenaries (the players) or to instill in them a sense of collective sacrifice and duty.
Traditionally, a visit from the Japanese
emperor
– except for a coronation or royal anniversary celebration – signified a turning point in a bilateral relationship.
While the
emperor
is merely the “symbol of the state” under Japan’s US-imposed postwar constitution, he retains significant influence, owing to Japanese veneration of the imperial dynasty – the world’s oldest continuous hereditary monarchy, the origins of which can be traced to 660 BC.
Consider Akihito’s 1992 visit to China – the first such visit by any Japanese
emperor.
Although no Japanese
emperor
has visited India before, the bilateral relationship runs deep.
Indeed, it is expected to be one of the last foreign trips for the 79-year-old emperor, who has undergone several major surgeries in the past decade.
In business, the
emperor
is quickly told the truth about his new clothes – unless, that is, it is a family business of the sort that Trump ran and frequently bankrupted.
Worship of the
emperor
was abolished, though Hirohito remained on his throne.
Macartney refused to conform to Chinese imperial protocol by declining to kowtow to the emperor, because he was not required to do the same to his own sovereign.
During his visit, the
emperor
had the opportunity to enjoy the Vietnamese version of gagaku, which also has Cham origins.
A similarly complex process went into fashioning the famous army of terracotta warriors that Qin Shi Huang, China’s first emperor, unveiled one thousand years later.
The mosque was built in the 1520’s by India’s first Mogul emperor, Babur, on a site traditionally believed to have been the birthplace of the Hindu god-king Ram, the hero of the 3,000-year-old epic, the Ramayana.
(Perhaps only the
emperor
of Japan expects foreign leaders to follow more painstakingly detailed rituals.)
The next year, the Persian emperor, Yazdegerd III, fled to the border province of Khorasan and the Arabization of Persia began, with Persians taking Arab names and converting to Islam.
The
emperor
has no clothes, imported or domestic; and, apparently, he has no competent economic advisers, either.
The latest events clearly indicate that a czarist mentality survived the revolution, reflected in a Byzantine model of political power — an
emperor
and his court — that has as its main vehicle largely unconstrained presidential authority.
The Kim cult owes something to Stalinism, something to messianic Christianity, something to Confucian ancestor worship, something to indigenous shamanism, and something to the
emperor
worship of the Japanese, who ruled Korea in the first half of the twentieth century.
The die was cast for India’s development path on July 22, 1947, when India’s Constituent Assembly resolved to replace Mahatma Gandhi’s spinning wheel, or charka , with the
emperor
Ashoka’s wheel of dharma on the Indian national flag.
In France, populist mobilizations installed an
emperor
– Napoleon III, who led a coup in 1851 – and overthrew democratically elected governments during the Second Republic.
In doing so, he may even create a circus worthy of a Roman
emperor.
Because Abe is the nationalist grandson of a former prime minister who was once arrested as a war criminal, and because he has paid public tribute to soldiers who died for the
emperor
in World War II, these protests might seem reasonable.
What needed to be purged instead, postwar reformers believed, was a specific form of Japanese militarism, rooted in
emperor
worship, the samurai tradition, authoritarian “feudalism,” and so on.
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