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King Tang — The Rebel Who Founded the Shang

Before there was the Mandate of Heaven, kings ruled simply because they were born into the right family. Then came King Tang. Around 1600 BCE, he did something no one had successfully done before—he overthrew a ruling dynasty and replaced it. But his real victory wasn’t just on the battlefield. It was in the story he told afterward. Tang introduced a powerful new idea: that Heaven could withdraw its support from a bad ruler and give it to someone more virtuous. This idea, later known as the Mandate of Heaven, would shape Chinese politics for the next four thousand years. In this episode, we explore how a regional lord turned rebellion into moral duty—and how one political myth became stronger than any army.