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About The Mandate Of Heaven Murders
The Mandate Of Heaven Murders is a novel about the last days of the first of China’s ruling dynasties in recorded history to leave very much of a record.
The Shang ruled from about 1600 B.C.E. to about 1046 B.C.E; nearly five and a half centuries. The Shang were remarkable for their advances in a number of the scientific disciplines.
The last emperor/king was Di Xin, (our Shou – the “One Man).
Little is known about actual specific events in the last days of the Shang; Di Xin was generally considered to be a cruel man who used torture for personal satisfaction as well as for all the usual reasons torture became an almost routine tool among nearly all peoples of the world in previous ages whether they be American Indian, the various rulers of Asia, the Vikings, the “advanced” civilizations of the middle east and north Africa, or the so called “enlightened” peoples of the European Enlightenment.
While this work is entirely a work of fiction the events depicted and the details of life in the era are entirely plausible and consistent with what is known about the Shang.
