Completed in 1913 for Canadian Pacific, theEmpress of Asiaplied the oceans for nearly thirty years. Built for peacetime travel, she saw wartime service as an armed merchant cruiser and troopship before Japanese dive bombers destroyed her off Singapore in 1942. Through the Roaring Twenties and Grea...
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given every possible opportunity to examine the constitutions of the countries through which it passed, and on its return to Peking the report of the trip was published in one hundred and twenty volumes, the most important item of which was that a constitution, modelled after that of Japan, ...
Cixi is also presented as a proto-nationalist who was mistrustful of Western powers and Japan in particular. The author tries to demolish the famous stories that Cixi opposed all railroad building and misused naval funds to build a palace shaped like a ship. Chang uses a considerable amount ...
In the 19th century the Qing Dynasty was fraught with political unrest and economic problems. Confronted by western incursions and threats from an emerging Japan, the Chinese government was hanging by a thread. Presiding over this sinking ship of an empire was Empress Dowager Cixi. Misguided and...
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Thus, Jinrin provides a vibrant example of how the belief in Japan as land of the gods (shinkoku shisō) galvanized a reinterpretation of Japan, its world, and its history. Keywords: Jinrin; Empress Jingū; shinkoku; engi 1. Introduction Empress Jingū 神功皇后 (traditional years 169–269...