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Chokwe people in Zaire tell traditional stories called 'Yishima' that often include songs that advances the drama in expressing the key feelings with a poetic flavour, allowing for audience participation and thus improvising the drama. Each story builds upon the themes that arose during the previous tale, and each tale told will accomodate some of the innovations that arose through audience participation the last time the story was told. The effect is that of the embedded voices of many influencing the tale over time and at each telling.
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The Philippine Military Academy class of 1940 signifies the beginning of the modern Philippine military, which kept the military from succeeding in coup attempts due to its strict honor code. This was unique, considering frequent incidents of military coups in Southeast Asia. The class of 1940 provides an apt focus for studying the nature of socialization that engendered this restraint. A sense of solidarity, for the 1940 class, included everything from a cadet's exams to a general's protocol for dealing with the president.
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The sixteenth-century Ming dynasty novel Shuihu zhuan (Water margin) is examined for the manner in which it brings out aspects of Northern Song society of 960-1127, that lie dormant in the Song sources. The novels' depiction of arms instructors and manorial lords are suggestive of the Northern Song military subculture, and by including history and fiction, Shuihu zhuan straddles the cultural milieu of both the mid- and late-imperial eras and marks the finale of the Song-Yuan-Ming tradition.
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