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Originally Posted by tirsales
With changing societies and a (admittedly stable) monarchistic cultures in between - that had a different approach then the actual regime.
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You mean the current regime?
Scratch beneath the surface, and I think you'll find little change in the underlying social patterns.
When Chairman Mao took over mainland china, he simply becase the latest Emperor. It wasn't what he
called himself, but it was what he functionally was. You can change the names by which things are called without changing the things themselves or the fundamental relationship between the things, and that's about what happened.
China doesn't have an Emperor now, but the rest of the social structure is largely intact.
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Dennis