Mandate of Heaven
Publisher: Little Brown Company
Published: February 2, 1995
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780316912822
Subjects: China; Places & peoples: general interest
First sentence: By the time the Chinese New Year ushered in the Year of the Snake in February 1989, the city of Beijing was seething with a discontent so poisonous that many people began to whisper that the government's heavenly mandate to rule was running out.