What China is seeking is to refine its governance to overcome the shortcomings of a 2500 year old (from unification 221 BC) imperial system.
Before he became an outlaw, Song was a small official in a local court, and his biggest ambition was to serve the imperial system.
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But try as they did, they found it difficult to unravel the foreign technology from the values that produced it, and China's imperial system soon collapsed.
Weary of making bureaucratic appointments solely on the basis of letters of recommendation, Yang set aside a number of posts for applicants who performed well on a new system of imperial examinations.
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The vast corporate nexus of the oil, automobile, and petrochemical industries -- enabled by the military and political power of the American imperial state -- constitutes the system of addiction.
Was Hirohito a mere figurehead atop a powerful system of authoritarian rule, an imperial puppet manipulated by a military elite?
Investigators have attributed the failed 1999 Climate Orbiter mission to human error: The flight software used metric units while the ground system that wrote the code used Imperial measures.
Like the Great Wall or, more recently, the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River it's a classic imperial project, still possible under China's one-party system.
Never having known the wonders of imperial measures, they would probably prefer the easier-to-learn metric system that is standard in the rest of Europe.
One, Mars Climate Orbiter, had a particularly humiliating crash, because the fault lay with a group of engineers who, in defiance of common sense, had continued to use imperial units of measurement in their calculations when all around had adopted the metric system.
He is viewed as a man who purportedly fully grasps the implications of the Soviet system's economic failure and the resulting requirement for Soviet military and imperial retrenchment and political democratization as preconditions for future Soviet economic development.
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