MANDATE OF HEAVEN
Publisher: TIME WARNER PAPERBACKS
Published: 1996
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780751514469
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.