fiefdom

China's dirigiste ambitions versus its often chaotic reality, its competing fiefdoms and its ideological uncertainty put it over a barrel.

Most of these mini-kingdoms, satrapies and private fiefdoms died along with the adventurers and sea-traders who founded them.

Migration of each vassal state capital, Fiefdoms land packets Territorial Change.

With no obvious heir, opportunistic offs and warlords set out to carve their own private fiefdoms where they could.

But their feuds are usually quiet ones and the fiefdoms they control tend to be secure.

Battelle asks what went wrong historically with Yahoo, and if Yahoo culture of fiefdoms got in their way.

Structurally the government consists of fiefdoms, baronies, duchies, planets, and marches (colonization clusters).

But owners ran their companies like fiefdoms and businesses rarely merged to gain economies of scale.

Some localities have degenerated into private fiefdoms run by local party officials.

That we were 38 fiefdoms that could never get together, never agree on anything?

Fine in theory, but it's hard to get SOE chiefs, keen to protect their fiefdoms, to part with their cash.

Middle management is composed of fiefdoms that are preserved by maintaining the status quo and so has little incentive to implement change.

From a vassal small to independent fiefdoms, qin dynasty.

This had the effect however on turning areas such as Lijiang into small fiefdoms .

presented clear alternative to current functional fiefdoms