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| | Indian, Chinese, & Japanese Emperors |
 | | India and China are the sources of the greatest civilizations in Eastern and Southern Asia. |
 | | A remaining artifact of this is that in Cantonese, the Chinese people are not the "Han People," |
 | | Interestingly, when the Manchurians came to power, footbinding was prohibited among their own people; but the tyranny of fashion, or the desire to assimilate to the Chinese, meant that the prohibition eroded in practice. |
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