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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So the three examples are: the process by which the Zhou came to power (this is the one Kongzi himself endorsed as such), the fall of the Qin regime that unified China but ruled through harsh legalist methods, then the fall of the long since corrupt Tokugawa system in Japan.
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agree. but yeah, if the Meiji restoration counts then there's been at least one in recent (enough) history!
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