The Mandate of Heaven

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The Mandate of Heaven: Record of a Civil War; China 1945–49 is a nonfiction book published in 1968. It was written by John F. Melby and illustrated with photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson. It takes its title from the Chinese concept of the Mandate of Heaven.

The Mandate of Heaven: Hidden History in the I Ching by S. J. Marshall is a good attempt to relate and date the initial historical Mandate of Heaven for the overthrow of the Shang Dynasty and establishment of the Zhou, to the Changes of Zhou, the I_Ching. Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-12299-3

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