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Imperial coronation robe
Worn by an official at the ceremony where Yuan Shi-kai, the warlord who dominated the early history of the Republic of China, decided he'd had quite enough of all those constitutional niceties and just had himself declared emperor. That didn't prove quite as effective as he'd hoped; it was probably the shortest reign of any emperor in Chinese history.
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