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Was a Chinese Dynasty's losing the Mandate of Heaven always something discussed in retrospective or would contemporary scholars or enemies of the gov't claim that the ruling dynasty had lost the Mandate of Heaven?

by /u/Seswatha in /r/AskHistorians

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