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  • Exploring The Mysteries Of Xi'an's Imperial Tombs

    09/03/2004 4:47:29 PM PDT · by blam · 7 replies · 543+ views
    China Daily ^ | 9-3-2004 | David Fullbrook
    Exploring the mysteries of Xi'an's imperial tombs By David Fullbrook (That's Beijing) Updated: 2004-09-03 13:49 Dynasties and empires rose and fell along the Wei He River valley, where Xi'an lies. While the emperors are gone, their legacy awaits the spades and brushes of archaeologists exploring this crucible of Chinese history and culture. Terra-Cotta Warriors in the surburb of Xi'an [file photo] The terracotta warriors, one of archaeology's greatest accidental finds, hint at what else could lie under the barely scratched fields where emperors and aristocrats lie interred beneath 500 burial mounds. These tombs rise out of a fertile plain where...
  • The consequences of joining the club: Inventing Japan: from Empire to Economic Miracle, 1853-1964

    10/25/2003 5:22:24 AM PDT · by risk · 4 replies · 396+ views
    The Spectator (UK) ^ | 27 September 2003 | Jonathan Mirsky
    Ishihara The consequences of joining the club Jonathan MirskyINVENTING JAPAN: FROM EMPIRE TO ECONOMIC MIRACLE, 1853-1964 By Ian Buruma Weidenfeld, £12.99, pp.162, ISBN:1842126873 It didn’t last quite 40 years, but for much of the adult lives of Spectator readers Japan was Top Country; indeed, Harvard’s Ezra Vogel wrote Japan as Number One, and he and many others, including international corporate executives, sought to discover the secret of Japan’s success and wondered how it could be applied in the West. In the late 1990s the bubble burst: Sayonara, Number One. What happened? It is the considerable achievement of Ian Buruma’s...
  • America's Imperial Delusion -- The US drive for world domination has no historical precedent

    06/14/2003 9:01:43 AM PDT · by Mister Magoo · 76 replies · 688+ views
    Guardian (UK) ^ | June 14, 2003 | Eric Hobsbawm
    America's imperial delusion The US drive for world domination has no historical precedent Eric Hobsbawm Saturday June 14, 2003 The Guardian The present world situation is unprecedented. The great global empires of the past - such as the Spanish and notably the British - bear little comparison with what we see today in the United States empire. A key novelty of the US imperial project is that all other empires knew that they were not the only ones, and none aimed at global domination. None believed themselves invulnerable, even if they believed themselves to be central to the world -...
  • 57 years late, UK honours its Indian war heroes

    11/06/2002 10:51:34 AM PST · by psywarrior · 3 replies · 310+ views
    THE TIMES OF INDIA ^ | [ WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 06, 2002 07:55:58 PM ] | RASHMEE Z AHMED
    LONDON: Fifty-seven years late and after 2.5 million Indian soldiers gallantly served, bled and died for the King and the Empire during the Second World War, the British Queen is finally honouring their sacrifice in stone and reminding the former Raj of its 'forgotten' heroes. But the controversy continues about whether Britain can really be reminded about something it never knew or wanted to know. This includes the heroism of 'greats' the average British schoolchild still knows nothing about, including Subedar Khudadad Khan, the first Indian holder of the Victoria Cross and RAF Squadron Leader Mahinder Singh Pujji, one of...