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 an 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
