According to Webb, England already had a military imperial policy for more than a century before the American Revolution.

根据韦伯的说法，在美国独立战争前一个多世纪，英国就已经有了军事帝国政策。

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After all, unlike the UK in the 19th century, China is not interested in imperial expansion.

毕竟，与19世纪的英国不同，中国并没有扩张帝国的兴趣。

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In the 18th century, the Qianlong Emperor purged thousands of texts and their authors for treasonous ideas while assembling a vast imperial collection to be printed.

18世纪，乾隆皇帝清洗了上千本著作及其作者，但是却编纂了大量的帝王著作，并印刷。

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Around the turn of the century Imperial Japan colonized the Korean peninsula and ruled with characteristic brutality.

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He, an extraordinary 15th-century Imperial fleet commander who completed seven long ocean voyages, including beyond the Indian subcontinent, reached the Horn of Africa and what is now Tanzania and Kenya.

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But even in the city's commercial and Imperial heyday during the 19th century, it never had such a lead in relative attractiveness as it does today.

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