The Western <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_dynasty" id="mwGQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Han dynasty">Han dynasty</a> ends when <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Mang" id="mwGg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Wang Mang">Wang Mang</a> claims that the divine <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandate_of_Heaven" id="mwGw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Mandate of Heaven">Mandate of Heaven</a> called for the end of the dynasty and the beginning of his own, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xin_dynasty" id="mwHA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Xin dynasty">Xin dynasty</a>.<sup about="#mwt20" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-2"}}' id="cite_ref-2" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_10#cite_note-2" id="mwHQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwHg">[2]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-2"><cite about="#mwt17" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFHans_Bielenstein1954">Hans Bielenstein (1954). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=VOVWmju9U5QC" id="mwB1o" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwB1s">The Restoration of the Han Dynasty</i></a>. Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities. p.<span id="mwB1w" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>160.</cite><span about="#mwt17" class="Z3988" id="mwB10" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Restoration+of+the+Han+Dynasty&amp;rft.pages=160&amp;rft.pub=Museum+of+Far+Eastern+Antiquities&amp;rft.date=1954&amp;rft.au=Hans+Bielenstein&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DVOVWmju9U5QC&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJanuary+10"></span></span>