ISBN10: 3906769569, ISBN13: 9783906769561, [publisher: Verlag Peter Lang] Softcover Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine. Grubby book may have mild dirt or some staining, mostly on the edges of pages.
[Gloucester, GLOS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2003]

Bern: Peter Lang, Date: 2003. Paperback in like new condition. Unused shop stock with minor shelf-wear. AD. Paperback. New. Used. 2003. Peter Lang ISBN 3906769569 9783906769561 [GB]

ISBN10: 3906769569, ISBN13: 9783906769561, [publisher: Verlag Peter Lang] Softcover Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine. Grubby book may have mild dirt or some staining, mostly on the edges of pages.
[Gloucester, GLOS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2003]

ISBN10: 3906769569, ISBN13: 9783906769561, [publisher: Peter Lang] Softcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This is a study of the sociopolitical role of the belief in chen prophecy in early medieval China. The chen prophecies discussed in this work are not confined to the traditional prophetic-apocryphal texts. Many contemporary prophecies emerged and circulated in association with current events; personal names, reign titles, poems, folk and children's rhymes, even rumor-rhymes were recognized as heavenly revelations. Although prophetic utterances were used as psychological weapons in politics, it would be wrong to regard chen prophecy as simply political propaganda. Chen prophecies were believed to be genuine prophetic messages at the time. Chen prophecy was an indispensable part of a symbolic ritual of legitimation of mandate-transfer. It was recognized as a coded revelation that derived its prophetic power from the primitive belief in the magic power of words. The emphasis on winning public acceptance may have been another source of its prophetic power. Social integration, legitimation of dynastic change, and the hopes for a better future in an age of tumult thus depended on the belief in the interaction between Heaven's mandate and man's destiny.
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Verlag Peter Lang 02/11/2003 1 Paperback Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine. Grubby book may have mild dirt or some staining, mostly on the edges of pages.