Word: feudality
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These measures failing, the imperial government seized and burned the British opium stocks at Canton. In the Opium War that followed, the primitive Chinese navy was blown to pieces and its feudal armies scattered. Under the peace treaty, the humiliated Emperor had to permit free trade at five Chinese ports, pay an indemnity of $21 million, and give to the British "a large and properly situated island" off the coast, "from which Her Majesty's subjects in China may be alike protected and controlled...
...constant plea that the family must bear the burden of teaching the culture. In a real community, there is an economy, with its crafts and its ideas. The shape of the community makes the culture evident. But, lacking this strong community, kids invent their own, reviving the feudal code of Alfred the Great, marking out safe territories, and making provision for special classes of revenge...
...Ahmadu's bloodline runs back to his great-grandfather, who in 1802 carved out a Moslem empire through the mostly arid northern half of Nigeria. But Sir Ahmadu has brought off the neat trick of turning feudal domain into political machine. When the British called elections last December, as a first step toward independence, the Sardauna stumped the walled cities of the north in a campaign that included such innovations as helicopters, skywriting and more than one stuffed ballot box. His party won 142 out of 312 seats in the federal Parliament. Already Premier of the Northern Region...
...jurists coldly dismissed the Reds' claim that they had "liberated" the Tibetan people from oppressive overlords. Although Tibet was a feudal society before the Red Chinese came, the jurists found that its people were thoroughly happy. Never had there been an instance of Tibetan popular uprising. It was also untrue that China had improved the condition of the Tibetan masses, said the investigators. The considerable economic and industrial development that has taken place was all "directly related" to the needs of the half-million Chinese settled in Tibet. The poor Tibetans had only grown poorer...
...Wandering cows and insistent beggars who normally clog the streets were hustled out of town. Haile Selassie also arranged to keep from delegates the nasty story of the massacre at the town of Yirga-Alam last March, when his police shot down hundreds of peasants who revolted against their feudal landlords...