Reading about spread of Confucianism in early modern Japan, amused by translators’ habit of discussing idea that ruler has Mandate of Heaven but literally not mentioning the further fact that if one lacks benevolence and humane rule then one loses mandate and may be replaced.
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that's not nothing! how recent/distant are the examples you have in mind, historically?
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Actually given OP make that 3, and so the Meiji restoration is the latest! I haven't actually done the scholarship here, and would be interested to know how often ru have tended to agree that a regime change was the result of a mandate change. Very interesting research question!
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