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See C.R. Boxer, "The Rise and Fall of Nicholas Iquan," T'ien Hsia Monthly 11, no. 5 (1941): 401 – 39, esp. 412 – 14; see also W.G. Goddard, Formosa: A Study in Chinese History (Melbourne: Macmillan, 1966), 40 – 48.

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Works in English are sadly rare indeed, but see C.R. Boxer, "The Rise and Fall of Nicholas Iquan," T'ien Hsia Monthly 11, no.

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This deity eventually evolved into the concept of T'ien, or "Heaven," which, as an abstract and impersonal concept, became synonymous with Shang-ti.

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For the ancient Chinese, these two ways in which Heaven governed the cosmosMing, which is order in the physical world and T'ien Ming, which is order in the moral or social worldtogether made up the Tao, or Way of Heaven.

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For these two foundational Taoists, the Tao becomes the unitary principle and source of all there is, replacing T'ien as the source and governor of the universe.

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For the ancient Chinese, Heaven ruled the physical universe through ming, or "destiny," which was beyond human understanding and control, and ruled the moral universe, the universe of human behavior, through T'ien ming, or "The order of Heaven." commission that is given to a government and its policies through an electoral victory noun: a document giving an official instruction or command

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Each person is responsible for the welfare of those that have been put into their keeping, so that the T'ien Ming functioned at all levels of society.

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By Confucius 'time, the T'ien Ming had extended to include all human beings and their responsibilities obligations for the people around them and related to them.

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"T'ien Ming," the "Mandate of Heaven" is a central concept that stretches across millennia of Chinese history.

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He paused, said, carefully choosing his words, 'They have fmd dead body Wong T'ien Shui.'

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