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The Heavenly Mandate: How Omens, Portents, and Cosmic Warnings Ruled Imperial China

By Kate Macintosh
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By Kate Macintosh
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For thousands of years, the Chinese world was never silent. Rivers warned. Stars accused. The birth of a white deer near the imperial hunting grounds was not a curiosity of nature but a message from forces older than any dynasty, forces that watched the conduct of kings and responded in the language of events.

The Heavenly Mandate: Superstitions and Omens of China explores the complete architecture of one of humanity's most sophisticated and enduring omen traditions. From the crack divinatio...