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TRIBUTE. A contribution which is sometimes raised by the sovereign from his subject, to sustain the expenses of the state. It is also a sum of money paid by one nation to another under some pretended right. Wolff, Sec. 1145. |
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Plans show the ditch filled and rerouted in meandering curves across the park so it can continue to act as a wetlands, emptying into the Greenhill tributary system. For long periods of time they refused to participate in the tributary system which valorized China's vision of itself as the center of the world and the embodiment of all that was civilized. It thus joins a series of recent work on China that has completely overturned what previously was taken for granted - for example, we no longer believe in the universal application of the tributary system, in the absence of a system of civil law, or in the total victimization of Chinese women. |
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