Word: feudality
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...more than half a century, Beijing has branded Chiang Kai-shek, the Generalissimo who ruled China for two decades, as an enemy of the people, heading a feudal, despotic regime that was swept away by the tide of historical inevitability in the communist victory of 1949. But now, 28 years after his death in Taiwan, the administration he headed on the mainland seems strangely familiar and relevant to the future of the world's most populous nation...
...backpackers, mountaineers and jet-setters alike, that lies at the heart of the deadly turmoil. Though Kathmandu has enjoyed steady modernization, in the rugged hinterlands the time warp that shrouds the Himalayan kingdom?according to the Nepalese calendar it is currently the year 2060?preserves a system of feudal landlords, bonded labor and a medieval level of destitution. The Asian Development Bank estimates that 42% of the 26 million population lives below the poverty line?and Nepal's leaders have made scant effort to address the gap between the impoverished many and the privileged few. A Hindu god-king ruled...
DYLAN: "My old man, he's like some feudal lord." SAGA: "My old man would sit there like a feudal lord...
...Lhasa's Jokhang Temple by a group of Red Guards. She weeps as she describes smashing idols and destroying scriptures. An old man recounts his band of warriors' futile attempt at defending their homeland in 1955. He was jailed; his family, because of its prominence in the old feudal system, was reclassified as lowly shanakpo, or bad class, by the communists and publicly beaten in the mid-1960s. The independence campaign by Tibetans-in-exile is useless, the man says. "It may make them feel good, but for us it makes life worse...
...mini-epics in their own right, describe how man began the war with machines and how the Matrix came into being (in the usual dystopic, postapocalyptic anim? tradition, man is hoisted by the petard of his own pride). The taut Program is set in a simulacrum of feudal Japan; Detective Story somehow turns the Wachowskis' vision into film noir, complete with fog, fedoras?and Trinity in (what else?) tight, black leather...