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...lack of "popular altruism's among the Chinese, Liang favored rule by an elite styled after that of Meiji Japan where the nonelite majority of the community could also participate in the political process. In comparison with the basically Confucian doctrine which limited the reins of power to the Emperor and the scholar elite, Chang says that Liang's doctrine of popular participation in government was "essentially egalitarian...
...negotiations began in mid-February under the auspices of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, and almost foundered over how to guarantee the southerners' security against reprisals following the signing of an agreement. At that point the Emperor called the negotiators to his palace and guaranteed the southerners' well-being in his own name and that of the 41-nation Organization for African Unity. The rebels then abandoned their demand for a separate army, and the Sudanese government in Khartoum agreed to grant more autonomy for the south than it had originally intended...
Nixon enters the main throne room of the emperor, then the smaller Hall of Perfect Harmony. In a corner is a sedan chair, gilded and elaborately carved, on which the emperor was transported to the throne. "He didn't get much exercise if he was always carried on the chair," the President observes. Following Nixon and his party as it sways through the hall seems a bizarre intrusion on the heavenly harmonies, but the building absorbs it all with splendid serenity. When the press and cameramen momentarily block the way, Nixon explains: "Our press is like an unorganized army...
...Revolution has been organized. The most spectacular pieces in the collection are the jade burial suits of a prince who died in 113 B.C. and his wife. "Well, you wouldn't walk around in that," observes Nixon. When he notices a pair of ear stoppers used by the emperor to keep from hearing criticism, the President says: "Give me a pair of those." Nixon is in the Forbidden City, but he makes it seem as if he were still back home in San Clemente, Key Biscayne or any place else he travels...
...other tales; one of life in a ma triarchal hunting tribe of dawn men, the other a successful drollery about a Roman emperor plagued by a too-clever Greek slave. Nothing here echoes darkly in the mind like Golding's Lord of the Flies, nor is meant to. Small marvels have their value, and these offer an hour's pleasure...