| For a time it seemed that the dynastic cycle might be broken and traditional autocracy could be in the process of transmutation. |
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| Moral retribution was the earliest significance attached to the notion of a dynastic cycle. |
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| During the early phase of the dynastic cycle, peace and prosperity reign, and population tends to increase. |
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| Chinese peasant communities followed a cyclical movement between normative closure and openness as a function of the dynastic cycle. |
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| The dynastic cycle phase, in the Chinese understanding of modern history, was posited on one of the grand theories that underlay the Chinese state. |
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| If candidates' merits were the issue, the dynastic cycle would have ended in 2000 before it began in eruption of chads. Amanda Rivkin Brooklyn. |
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