Mandate Of Heaven
Subtitle: In China, A New Generation Of Entrepreneurs, Dissidents, Bohemians And Technocra
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: September 20, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780684804477
Subjects: World history; Human rights; China; History - General History; History: World; Politics and government; Asia - China; History / General; 1976-
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.