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Until he died in 1908, the emperor was Cixi’s puppet.
Last month’s 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China effectively crowned President Xi Jinping – who has spearheaded a more muscular foreign policy, in service of his goal of establishing China as a global superpower – as the country’s emperor.
The emperor, alarmed, fires wildly and misses his mark.
The emperor had no clothes.
In the “poster,” Mao called for China’s youth to “pull the emperor off his horse” and start a grassroots rebellion.
Staffed by eunuchs, it reported to the emperor directly.
The report that sets out the policy shows that the emperor is indeed naked.
They are reminiscent of a Roman emperor.
Abe’s revisionist project does not only concern the pacifist Article 9, which bars Japan from using armed force, but also matters like education, emergency laws, and the role of the emperor.
Xi, who in some ways has taken up the expansionist mantle of Mao Zedong, is attempting to implement a modern version of the tributary system that Chinese emperors used to establish authority over vassal states: submit to the emperor, and reap the benefits of peace and trade with the empire.
On April 30 the world witnessed the abdication by His Majesty the Emperor Emeritus Akihito, the first abdication by a reigning emperor in 202 years.
His elder son, Crown Prince Naruhito, will succeed him as emperor.
Although Akihito himself came of age during the tumultuous era of World War II and the Cold War, both Japan and the world had changed significantly by the time he became emperor.
And the Japanese emperor is no exception.
In doing so, she helped to prepare Akihito for the world that would greet him when he became emperor.
In this sense, Japan’s emperor for the past 30 years has been much more of a global leader than a national one.
The mosque had been built in the 1520s by a Muslim noble, Mir Baqi, in the name of India’s first Mughal 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.
The most important “clarification” (the term preferred by conservatives) was to assure the Japanese that their emperor could remain on the throne.
Conservatives hoped that a concession on the issue of the emperor would prevent a Soviet occupation of Northeast Asia and spare the Americans a costly invasion.
But Truman, unmoved, refused to offer the emperor any guarantee.
Adding more fuel to the fire, former Republican President Herbert Hoover, an ardent supporter of modification, contended that communist sympathizers in the State Department had prevented Truman from telling the Japanese they could keep their emperor.
Napoleon was crowned emperor in Notre Dame in December 1804.
It is not the emperor's fault, perhaps; but why should he go and fight in America?
Stuck on to the walls were some violently-coloured prints, portraits of the emperor and the empress, given by the Company, of soldiers and of saints speckled with gold, contrasting crudely with the simple nudity of the room; and there was no other ornament except a box of rose-coloured pasteboard on the sideboard, and the clock with its daubed face and loud tick-tack, which seemed to fill the emptiness of the place.
As for Deneulin, he was for a strong Government; he declared that the emperor was gliding down the slope of dangerous concessions.
Around him the room appeared larger without the clock or the polished deal furniture which formerly animated it; there only remained against the green crudity of the walls the portraits of the emperor and empress, whose rosy lips were smiling with official benevolence.
I also noticed some wrasse known as the tapiro, three decimeters long, bony fish with transparent scales whose bluish gray color is mixed with red spots; they're enthusiastic eaters of marine vegetables, which gives them an exquisite flavor; hence these tapiro were much in demand by the epicures of ancient Rome, and their entrails were dressed with brains of peacock, tongue of flamingo, and testes of moray to make that divine platter that so enraptured the Roman emperor Vitellius.
It is not for me to try to tell you the story of that battle, and, indeed, I should have kept far enough away from such a thing had it not happened that our own fates, those of the three simple folk who came from the border country, were all just as much mixed up in it as those of any king or emperor of them all.
He was screeching "Vive le roi!Vive le roi!" at the pitch of his lungs, which was as much as to say that he was a deserter, since we were for the king and they for the emperor.
"Great thanks," said Sancho, "but I may tell your worship that provided I have enough to eat, I can eat it as well, or better, standing, and by myself, than seated alongside of an emperor.
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